MARALAL, Kenya — A new church-planning method has resulted in more than 150 “contact points” among the Samburu people of northern Kenya according to Don and Mary Alice Dolifka, International Mission Board missionaries to Kenya. A year ago there were only 10 contact points — places where people gather to hear a lesson from the Bible.
The Samburu have not always been this responsive to the gospel. Doors began to open with a project aimed at the most important thing in a Samburu’s life — cows.
The animal care project took shape after Dolifka noticed that 80 percent of sicknesses could be treated by someone other than a veterinarian. Three Samburu church leaders learned how to treat the ailments. While the animal care project opened doors fro sharing the gospel, the Dolifkas knew they still needed the gospel in their own language.
Three months later, someone approached the missionaries, telling them he felt God wanted him to translate the Bible.
It was about that time the Dolifkas began “storying” the Bible by using hand-cranked tape players. The cassettes explain the Bible chronologically. The Samburu play these Bible lessons before most community meetings.
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