SEND Center

Need/Opportunity

Forces opposed to the Christian faith are advancing from the north of Africa in large numbers toward the south, into the sub-Saharan Africa, a region that for over a century has witnessed the spread the true freedom found only in Christ Jesus. Kenya borders a few of predominantly non-Christian countries just north of the Equator. The country has the unique potential to withstand the advance of opposing forces by building a strong “Buffer Zone of Truth” along the Equator. The town of Lodwar in Kenya is strategically located as the launching pad for such a zone. Hence the urgent need to construct the SEND (Share Eternity through Nationals Daily) Center in Lodwar beginning January 2012.

Project Plan

Share International, Inc. (SI) has been building a Buffer Zone of Truth in Turkanaland the past 15 years by training, sending, and supporting indigenous pastors and missionaries from a makeshift facility in Lodwar town. Between December 1997 and March 2012, God has used SI to plant and facilitate the planting of 133 churches in Turkanaland and South Sudan through the annual Short-Term Outreach & Relief Missions (STORM) and the 37 indigenous missionaries and pastors that SI has trained, sent, and supports. This has resulted in over 25,000 conversions to Christ, with a total of 18,506 of them recorded in our books in the Lower office. A total of 11,248 have participated in our Discipleship Program each week. A total of 7,355 have been baptized. “The LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes” (Ps. 118:23)!

The 133 churches have now appointed at least 665 leaders! The urgent need in these churches now is to heed the Apostle Paul’s charge to his protégé́ Timothy – “to be a workman approved by God” (2 Tim. 2:14-26). To do so effectively, SI must now build a permanent facility in Lodwar where these indigenous leaders can continually be taught, trained, and sent out to withstand the potential winds of false doctrine in that whole region..

Collaboration

From inception of SI’s ministry in Turkanaland, we have collaborated with the indigenous evangelical denominations/churches and leaders in that region by way of the Turkana Pastors Fellowship. We will continue to serve with the indigenous churches and leaders.

Projected Outcomes & Ways to Measure Them

We have already witnessed and have kept up-to-date records of the Church growth in Turkanaland and South Sudan the past 16 years. When the SEND Center is completed and in full operation, we anticipate the project to be used of God as “good ground” for imparting “seed” among the indigenous Church leaders. From the Center, the Word will spread further afield, be heard and understood, bear fruit, and produce measurable crop – “some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty” (Matt. 13:8)! Our records the past 15 years attest to measurable and lasting results. We plan to faithfully continue the trend.

Required Funding to Complete the Project

The local labor force in Turkanaland is unlimited. God has already called Taylor and Leigh Ann Kilpatrick (and their three daughters – 5, 4, & 3) from Ruston, Louisiana to oversee the construction of the $2M SEND Center in Lodwar. The Kilpatricks arrived in Lower on February 12, 2012. Taylor has now started the groundwork for the construction of the Center. A total of $500,000 is required to complete Phase I of the project. About $40,000 has been raised already.

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