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I arrived in Mombasa on December 9th, and was scheduled to speak at an event organised by the Baptist Convention of Kenya. I was given two slots in the program on the first day. First, “Byang Kato and the Power of the African Christian Memory” encourages pastors and scholars to record their history.  The second topic was “Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament Narrative passages.”

I was only in Mombasa for two days, and at 32 degrees Celsius and humidity in the mid-eighties, that is enough for any kind of work. Any exertion in Mombasa is sweat-inducing, and sustaining any work is exhausting. I had arranged for 1000 copies of the magazine and 500 copies of the Puritan book to be shipped there, as well as a flyer from Ligonier Ministries advertising their new Swahili website. All of these I was able to distribute at the conference.

Another interesting development, in the providence of God, was to meet a pastor on the flight into Mombasa from the Africa Inland Church (AIC).  Dr Byang Kato was staying at an AIC location in Mombasa when he lost his life, so I was able to visit the location, see the chalets, and the beach where he was staying.

On Dec. 12th, I boarded a train from Mombasa to Nairobi, a five-hour journey, but one that would allow me to do some work, arriving in Nairobi on the Friday evening. Saturday, I visited friends in Nairobi, and on Sunday, I worshipped at the Parklands Baptist Church.

The week (14th – 19th) was filled with meetings in Nairobi.

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The first photo below is of a pastor called Cosmus. Cosmus attended our workshop in Kitui in 2023 and again in Mombasa, 2024. Cosmos travelled to Mombasa to meet me and told me, “Those three days in Kitui really impacted my Bible Study life, but also my preaching life.” This is a real encouragement to see the impact of the Krapf Academy workshops.

We left Uganda late afternoon on Dec. 4th and got into Bungoma in time for supper at my host’s house. Pastor Isambo had plans for another workshop in his own church, Gospel Mission Agency. The workshop in Bungoma was on Friday and Saturday (6-7th), and I preached in the church on the Lord’s Day.

Gospel Mission Agency is a church plant with a small congregation. After service on Sunday, we were all invited to the pastor’s house for lunch prepared by the pastor’s wife.

On Monday morning, we were off to Butula for another workshop. Butula is a more rural area, and we had planned for a one-day workshop. The church building was newly constructed from a wooden frame overlaid with a mix of mud and cow dung, which gives it a durable and waterproof finish. After Butula, it was off to Bumala, where I was hosted by Rev. Eric  Ngala and his wife at the Reformed Theological Seminary.

My stay in Bumala was brief, just one night, and I had a flight the next day to Mombasa at 1.00 pm, so Rev. Ngala arranged an event from 8.00 am to 10.00 am, then we rushed off to the airport in Kusumu, about 2 hours away. The journey to Kisumu crosses the Equator, so the driver stopped for a photo. We are planning a week of teaching in RTS late in November 2026, Lord willing.

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Pastor Geoffrey Isambo of Bungoma in Kenya is one of our most eager and energetic supporters. Isambo has his own amazing story, coming from a Pentecostal “Apostle” to a Reformed Baptist pastor.  Isambo has been to a few of our workshops and has a zeal to take the teaching into more remote areas of Kenya and across the border to Uganda.

I arrived in Nairobi late on Tuesday evening and had a 6.00 AM flight to Eldoret the following morning. From Eldoret, we travelled to the border with the pastor. After two hours of negotiations and more expenses at the border, we were finally on our way to the first Workshop. The pastors had waited all day and were happy to see us at about 3.00 PM. After a two-hour session, we dismissed and planned to resume in the morning.

The location in Uganda was a very remote and difficult area north of Tororo, but the people hosted us very generously, with the best of Ugandan cuisine.

We were able to distribute The Pastor’s Study magazine and also a little book we printed in collaboration with Reformation Heritage Books, Rules for Walking in Fellowship.

I was privileged to travel to Jos, Nigeria, in November 2025. I travelled with Dr Paul Todd of Africa Christian Textbooks (ACTS), one of our partners in the mission. I am indebted to Paul and also to our hosts in Nigeria, Dr. Musa Gaiya and his wife Pamela. We have worked with ACTS-Kenya in printing and distributing books, and ACTS-Nigeria distributes The Pastor’s Study digitally to over 2000 pastors, church leaders, publishers, and other organisations. I was pleased to discover that it is shared on their social media outlets, also, so we have no way of knowing the full readership of the magazine in Nigeria.

Thanks to Prof. Musa Gaiya and his wife Pamela for organising a lecture at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria (TCNN) on Dr Byang Kato and biographical historiography,  and also at the University of Jos on Preaching and teaching from the OT narrative passages.

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On November 25, 2025, I visited the village of Sabzuro, a settlement just to the north of Kwoi, Nigeria, where Byang Kato was born (June 23, 1936). His younger half-brother, Rev. Adamo, and his wife, Abigail, received me along with my driver.

This visit to Sabzuro was one of the highlights of the trip to Nigeria for a number of reasons.

First, the sheer excitement on the face and the audible joyful expressions of the 84-year-old Rev. Adamo Kato when he saw the article on his brother and the collection of photographs, in The Pastor’s Study magazine, which I presented to him. This special issue was dedicated to Dr. Byang Kato on the 50th anniversary of his death (Dec. 19, 1975).

Rev. Adamo was so excited, and he knew that the people in the village would also be happy, that he walked with me through the village to the old kato home place. He explained the family situation, his father’s three wives, and how many children he had, most of them dying in infancy. He showed me the site of the original home (now demolished) and the new family compound. In the bushes, he pointed to the burial ground of his ancestors.

As we walked through the village, he pointed out the rocky hill just to the north, where the villagers would hide in caves from the Fulani slave traders who came hunting for slaves. He pointed beyond the hill to the village of Nok, the historic site of the ancient Nok culture.

Second, it was my first real exposure to African traditional religions (ATR) from which the Kato family came. Byang was first converted to Christ at 12 years old, and later his brother Adamo, and then his father and mother. His father Heri, was a priest to the local god, Pop-ku, and as we walked in the village, he pointed to a large tree where the spirits were thought to live, and where they would bring portions of their harvest as an offering to the spirits.

He explained how Byang got his name. His mother felt that there were “enemies ganging up against her,” he said, because of the death of his three previous children. And so, she gave him the name “Byang,” meaning “you hate me.”

Following the Nigeria trip, I was in Mombasa for other meetings, and I visited the Amani Acres resort where the Kato family was holidaying in December 1975, and the beach where Kato lost his life. I’ve add photos of these bellow.

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