Pray for Pastor Thomas Alute

Austin Gardner • June 29, 2023

Pray for Kenya and all of Africa.

I love Pastor Thomas Alute. I thank all of you that make monthly donations to Alignment Ministries. Your money goes to help a man like this be greatly used of God. Read his facebook messages to me that have come in recently. Please pray for him. There may be needs you read about that you want to give additional help to. Please let me know.


The joy of soul-winning is our church prayer day today, Wednesday. We have morning, afternoon, and evening sessions three hours each, so after the morning session, I took off to meet a man in town, a father to a young man in our church who plans to marry; on the way, two men Patrick and Justus casual laborers wave me I stop they ask for a lift, I welcome them Patrick knows me as a man of God then to appease me he greetings by saying, "praise God pastor, I respond then ask which Lord the one he knows, he a answers the maker, my question what has he done for you? His answer the breath of today that's the greatest of all .I nothing more, he says nothing, what of you, Justus, he concurs with him, so let me show you something more than the day's life, I stop the car, and after some twenty minutes, the two gentlemen come to the realization of salvation from God something better than just a daily breath, praise God as I get another opportunity to visit their homes for discipleship ministry.


When not in evangelism or other duties monthly, we meet with other pastors in a fellowship of Tranzoia bible Baptist pastors fellowship for prayers, and encouragement from the bible, then plan and discuss ministry starting of New churches, helping young churches, and arrange meetings for various church groups, each pastor is accountable to the Lord local church and to one another in the fellowship, but each church is autonomous, in planning and propagating, 


So today, we were hosted by a young church called Big Tree Baptist church, with a young preacher John Muluku, who just bought the property two months ago. So we sat and held our fellowship in an open structure being put up for the church meeting, we were 17 pastors in total seven missed today with apologies, all of them except one. I trained them for ministry, and some are pastoring mission churches born out of our church. Praise God and pray for us. I stand third from right.


Today I decided to drive a hundred kilometers from my place to console pastor Wilson Barmau at the burial service of his wife, Jennifer, who went to be with the Lord. A quarter way on my drive, I saw three young men of around 20s waving to me for a lift stopped and offered since I was alone, then to realize they came from eastern Kenya, a place called Embu, and were working in training in marketing. They house kitchens for sell in homes, then take reports back,


On asking them if they know what salvation is, so like most Kenyans, 80 percent, one by the name James, says it's keeping the law of God and another, Patrick, goes for leaving bad habits. The last one Collins says salvation is avoiding bad elements; this is how our country is. The devil has blindfolded people on matters of salvation, but praise God today, these three at the back seat of my car not only received a free car ride but received the Lord joyously, some gospel tracts to read, made me drive joyously, and heaven glad.


Please pray for Kenya that many people will hear the gospel. Help me help Pastor Alute.


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