I hope you are doing well and that you are walking closely with your Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

March, April, and May have been busy months, particularly with the new class of pastors and church workers being trained through the Pastors’ Practical Training Academy. We have 30 students from across the country arriving the first week of every month for one week of intensive training for 18 months. This is an increase of 18 students over our last graduating class.

It is a blessing to see these men start growing in grace so early in their personal development as pastors. Some have had training but struggle with incorrect doctrine, soul wining, pastoral skills, church practice, spiritual warfare, separation, and generally the conflict between culture and God’s Word. This affects their understanding of Scripture, family, marriage, church, and Christian purpose, among many other things.

Bro. Brandon, one of our team members, and I have been refining our approach and the structure of the course to make it more pointed to the ministry in the areas of soul winning and discipleship and to help these men increase the size of their ministries. We sent out last month’s class to experience one-on-one soul winning, and they saw 38 professions of faith, 2 of whom the following month had been discipled and were looking to get baptized into a local Baptist church situated next door to where the PPTA meets. Upcountry, across the churches of the PPTA students during the month of April, 127 called on Christ to be saved, and 44 were baptized.

It has been particularly exciting to move on to the next phase of our ministry, where we have Kenyan pastors from our last graduating class come in and teach the new class. To be honest, we were a little concerned as to how it would go. We were greatly blessed to see Pastor Samuel from Rongo and Pastor Julius from Bondo near Lake Victoria, having traveled 8 hours, come in well prepared and excited to have the opportunity to teach their fellow Kenyans. Kenyans teaching Kenyans, so encouraging—what a blessing.

Now we are planning to move to the next stage and have multiple churches across the country hosting the PPTA and a multiplication effect taking place. We are praying this will result in many more souls being truly saved, churches being planted, and correct doctrine being taught. Please pray for us, as this demands a huge amount of work. There are ministry supplies needed, government regulations to comply with, finances to assist pastors with land and buildings, and transport and lodging expenses as we travel across the country to fulfill the demands of the ministry. Please pray for the Lord to give us knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and favor as we deal with the many aspects of planting churches and creating ongoing multiplication.

Melody, Lindsay, and I will be leaving for the USA on May 28 to go on our first furlough in five years. Please pray that all will go well. We have medical needs to deal with, more support to raise, and other personal affairs to which we need to attend.

Thank you for your ongoing prayer and financial support. I believe you will be greatly blessed for partnering with us as we work to see the Kenyan people won to Christ.

Your co-laborers in Christ,

Peter, Melody, and Lindsay Morris