OUR VISION

Evangelism

The great commission that Jesus gave to His disciples; “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations” applies to all Christians. I charge the Youth, the Mothers’ Union and the Fathers’ Association to make evangelism first in the order of their priorities. Our vicars will need to organize evangelism and preaching courses to equip these groups with the skills of winning people to God’s Kingdom.

Theological Training

The success of any institution depends on its professionally trained personnel. Thika Diocese will try as much as we can to ordain only those candidates who have a minimum of three years theological education. We will encourage our clergy to aim at gaining higher qualifications. We are glad to learn that St. Paul’s Limuru is starting a Masters in Theology degree beginning in September this year which is going to be affordable for those who have been aspiring to go overseas for the same.

TEE

We recognize that most of the conflicts that we have in our churches are as a result of having many Christians who do not know the Bible well. We will initiate and intensify programmes that will help our laity to undergo theological courses that will empower them in their various ministries. With the assistance of our Christians I intend to establish a human resource development centre that would cater for members beyond the Anglican faith.

Ministry to Schools

One of the most important benefits of mission Christianity was the establishment of mission schools. Schools aimed at developing children wholistically that is mentally, spiritually, and physically. Today schools have become hot-beds for drugs, immorality and strikes. We will encourage creation of many Church private schools that will provide Christian values to our young people. We will also pay special attention to all our sponsored schools to ensure that they are Christian oriented.

Community Development

The Church will need to demonstrate the deeds of Christ Himself who fed the hungry and healed the sick before He preached to them. The Board of Christian Community Services will need to survey what it can do to initiate local projects that would provide employment to some of our unemployed youth. We also recognize that there are many Agricultural graduates who are still jobless, when there are lands and people lying idle. We intend to use them.

Ecumenism

Finally in this order it is important to emphasize the need of local Churches to work together. We will need to encourage one another. The 20th Century is notoriously known as the age, which our people have been divided into the so-called denominations first by the European missionaries and more recently by us. We would like to see the next century as a time of coming together to speak with one voice and to confront our common enemy, the devil. We would like to see more of exchange of pulpits especially in our towns where we have so many Christian groups.