About Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, Kenya is listed as the 28th-most-populous country in the world and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second-largest city is the major port city of Mombasa, situated on Mombasa Island in the Indian Ocean and the surrounding mainland. Kenya is East Africa's regional transportation and financial hub and has a thriving economy across many sectors including agriculture and tourism.
Today Kenya has a very diverse population of an estimated 50+ million people, with more than 120 ethnic categories and 69 different languages. Kenya's two official languages (Swahili and English) are widely spoken, however in the rural areas people generally only speak their native languages.
About 85% of Kenyans profess to be Christian. Islam is the second largest religion (about 11% of the population). Indigenous beliefs are practised by 1% of the population, although many self-identifying Christians and Muslims maintain some traditional beliefs and customs.
Training
History
The first Veritas training in Kenya took place in November 2021 in Nakuru with Aloha Community Church. Additional training took place in 2023 and then again in 2023 in Eldoret (the Reformed Church) and in Nairobi (Full Gospel Church). To date there are 143 trained Veritas facilitators in Kenya.
The RCEA training in Eldoret in 2023 was done in a hall build by South African farmers in 1938, now used for Church activities.
Languages
Veritas material and training takes place in English and Swahili.
Ronald Chimzimu explaining relatives and absolutes in Module 1, Embu
Please keep our facilitators and students in prayer as they take the Gospel into the churches. Pray for safety, for travel and for the resources they need to fulfil this calling.
Testimonies
"One of the things that Veritas College has done through the training was to bring the Word of God with clarity, which we expect many pastors will be able now to teach us the Word. There are so many preachers who never learned the Homiletics and hermeneutics. We will expect them to teach more people and pray that the church will grow to maturity, and grow to purity and grow to the knowledge of God."
"I have learned so much about presenting the Word soundly because we are living in days of unsound and false teachings. I’ve learned how I can present the word of God with equipping and skills, how we can interpret, how we can apply and how we can also present this message that God has for the world more accurately. I see those people that God has brought us for training becoming better ministers of the Word equipped and especially as I have said how they can interpret and apply accurately to others. Train other people so that we can fulfill the great commission."
