True Education For Our Youth
—Kenya
The Fiwagoh Mission is a ministry founded in Kenya by Pastor Benson Nganga and his wife Florence. The mission is based on true Adventist principles found in the Bible and the Spirit Of Prophecy. Our goal is to restore the true principles of the “faith once delivered to the saints.” (Jude 1:3) that takes us back to primitive godliness.
The mission has trained more than fifteen fulltime Bible workers who go door to door spreading the wonderful truth we have in Jesus to the thousands of hungry souls in Kenya. We also have established thirteen home churches and an orphanage which, has an education center.
the orphanage started in 2003 with a very humble beginning. We started with only one child. Pastor Benson was finally able to fulfill a long awaited dream that he would be able to care for orphans in his own home. He had become an orphan at the age of nine years due to the death of both his parents. As of the writing of this article the orphanage has grown from one child to 200. Praise the Lord for how He has led in this work!
One of the principle pillars in the giving of the education to our children and youth is based on Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Our motto is “Train a child for eternity.”
“There can be no more important work than the proper education of our youth. We must guard them, fighting back Satan, that he shall not take them out of our arms.”
FE 89
“It is the nicest work ever assumed by men and women to deal with youthful minds. The greatest care should be taken in the education of youth to so vary the manner of instruction as to call forth the high and noble powers of the mind. Parents and schoolteachers are certainly disqualified to properly educate children, if they have not first learned the lesson of self-control, patience, forbearance, gentleness, and love. What an important position for parents, guardians, and teachers! There are very few who realize the most essential wants of the mind, and how to direct the developing intellect, the growing thoughts and feelings of youth.”
FE 15
The training of 200 children and youth ranging from 3 to 22 required a total concentration of mind, body, and spirit. A total reliance and dependence on the leading and guidance of God’s Word is needed. The story of George Mueller’s experience in his book Living By Faith is and inspiration to us as we move forward in the work of the Lord.
Florence and Pastor Benson are busy around the clock caring for the proper development of these children. They ensure that they develop physically, mentally, and spiritually. In the space of nine years, 50 strong students who have studied God’s Word and the Spirit Of Prophecy have become productive workers for the Lord.
“In planning for the education of their children outside the home, parents should realize that it is no longer safe to send them to the public school, and should endeavor to send them to schools where they will obtain an education based on a Scriptural foundation. Upon every Christian parent there rests the solemn obligation of giving to his children an education that will lead them to gain a knowledge of the Lord and to become partakers of the divine nature through obedience to God's will and way.”
CT 205
“The schools of the prophets were founded by Samuel to serve as a barrier against the widespread corruption, to provide for the moral and spiritual welfare of the youth, and to promote the future prosperity of the nation by furnishing it with men qualified to act in the fear of God as leaders and counselors. In the accomplishment of this object Samuel gathered companies of young men who were pious, intelligent, and studious. These were called the sons of the prophets. As they communed with God and studied His word and His works, wisdom from above was added to their natural endowments. The instructors were men not only well versed in divine truth, but those who had themselves enjoyed communion with God and had received the special endowment of His Spirit. They enjoyed the respect and confidence of the people, both for learning and piety.”
PP 593
Fiwagoh Mission has started a trade school to help our you to become self supporting. Some of the skills to be taught are dressmaking, building, farming, printing, leather work, medical missionary work, painting, carpentry, automobile mechanics, knitting, and midwifery.
On November 12, 2012, by God’s grace we had a ground breaking ceremony for the first set of 12 class rooms that will be for this practical education. We Praise the Lord for the donations from God’s faithful to begin this project. After these classrooms are completed these dear youth will carry on with further education and learn to train their young siblings in the home, as well. We pray as this project continues that the training of these young people will help them be responsible members of the society in which they will be living. This will help them become independent and they will never have to go back to the streets begging for bread again.
God’s work will always call for funds as long as the work is not finished here on earth,
We are obliged not only to believe in His coming, but also to hasten it.
Benson Nganga