Update from Moriah School of Discipleship

Nuture 2026 Program Report

Introduction

The Nurture 2026 program began on 7th January 2026 and ended on 22nd May 2026 when the students were commissioned. There were 22 students, twenty of whom completed the program. Of the twenty, eighteen became believers; the remaining two were already believers when they joined us. Sixteen of the new believers were baptised.

The two who did not complete Nurture were not willing to continue with the program. One of them left for home in the first week, and the other left after the first month.

Three mentors were helping with the work; a gentleman and two ladies. One of the ladies did not remain for the whole program; she left just before the students went for missions in April. We got two extra mentors to help during missions, and one of them remained until the commissioning. The mentors were of great help to us in the work.

Orientation

We set aside one day to do orientation, when the students get to know more about the program and the organisation. We give them a short tour of the neighbourhood, and we lay some ground rules to facilitate a fruitful and orderly stay. We also introduce them to the local church and through the church to the wider community. We enforce the rules strictly, especially in the first month, to maintain order and discipline. 

The Program

It is not possible to disciple a non-believer, and so the first few weeks are spent in a more evangelistic approach. We tackle topics on the foundations of the Christian Faith, and how one essentially becomes a Christian. We also handle issues of inner healing and then sequence with topics around intimacy with God and how to be an active and obedient Christian. This is the first phase; after this we transition to the second phase which explores God’s heart for the lost. Here we prepare them for evangelism and then send them to different fields for missions' exposure where they stay for a month. When they return, we train them on how to remain an effective and fruitful Christian in a world adrift. This usually includes some introduction to apologetics. Then we commission them. We give them basic computer lessons throughout the program, and they learn other life-skills such as farm work, cooking with firewood; they socialise, including through games and group activities.

Parallel Activities

We schedule (and sometimes ‘spontaneize’) one-on-one sessions with each of the students, to get to know the students better, and to share truth more intimately, and often to resolve conflict.

They attend computer classes during the latter half of the program. They also till the farm and grow mostly greens and sweet potatoes and help to look after some sheep and chicken that we keep.

They do Bible study twice a week, and have devotional, fellowship and prayer meetings on different days of the week. We show them Christian movies on Saturday evenings – a necessary antidote to so many destructive alternatives to which they are already exposed.

We expose them to Christian literature and so we have been stocking the library with an array of appropriate books as a tool of discipleship and to cultivate a reading culture among the students. This is a crucial discipline in a time when it has become natural to spend more time on smartphone screens than in books.

We do school ministry in the local schools, on Friday mornings during the PPI program (Program for Pastoral Instruction). This has been a good avenue to evangelise the community’s children.

We partner with two local churches where our students go for church services once a month.

Daily Schedule

We usually start the day with exercise, then on to personal quiet time devotions and afterward they proceed to their duties. They take breakfast thereafter and prepare for class at 9 a.m. Classes run until 4pm, with breaks in between. We reserve the afternoon class sessions for assignments, group activities, reading including Bible reading, and reflections.

Farm work, computer classes, and games are done alternatingly after classes, followed by dinner and evening programs of fellowship, corporate devotions, or Bible study. Lights go out at 10 p.m.

On the last weekend of the month, they are allowed to go out and do shopping for personal effects. And on the last Sunday of the month they attend services in the local churches.

Missions

We sent this year’s students to three mission fields: Siaya, Nakuru and Sotik. It was a good exposure for the students and the mentors.

The mission fields were each unique in focus and need. The Nakuru mission particularly stood out: our contact was a couple that works among a poverty-stricken people, with extreme drug and alcohol addictions, and to the sex-workers in their midst. This commingled human misery is localised in an area of Nakuru that is dingy, dirty, dull, depressing. It was a jolting eye-opener for the students who went there.

The Sotik mission, a vibrant church community, was quite eager to host our students. They were visibly encouraged to see young people loving the Lord so dearly and given to God’s work. They even sent a delegation to our commissioning ceremony, where their regional bishop actually preached. There are prospects for continuing the partnership.

The Siaya mission field, through a newly planted church, was also unique in that sense and presented a rare opportunity for evangelism. The Siaya church experienced church growth as a result of the mission. We visited them during a Sunday service when many new converts were in attendance and gave testimonies. One of those testifying was a young man who had had a promising future but had given in to depression and then alcoholism. One of the students struck a conversation with him when they met him on the road as they walked. That conversation led to others in the days that followed and culminated in the young man’s conversion and the mending of a strained relationship with his parents. We trust he and the others are keeping the faith! They were all entrusted to the hosting church.

Challenges and Recommendations

1) Electricity: We have had intermittent power blackouts which have affected the programs and the food storage.
We would be happy for a comprehensive solar system, to take care of the lighting and power the appliances, especially the freezers, which will extensively minimise the disruptions and even reduce the power bill. We are also considering a solar water pump so that the water we already receive is more consistently available. (We receive much of our water from one of the local churches where a borehole is installed, and quite a bit is also harvested from the rain).

2) Water storage: This area experiences severe aridity during dry spells. This year’s was particularly acute. We have desired expanded water storage, especially to water the farm year-round, and to set up the farm for drip irrigation so as to be able to grow vegetables during the whole program.

3) Sink area:  We would like to do a proper sink area for the students. The current one is unhygienic and drains poorly especially during Nurture when we routinely have over 20 students.

Conclusion

We are truly grateful to God for the opportunity to serve God among young people. And we are grateful to those whom God has brought alongside us to walk with us and to partner with us in the quest of Disciple-making. We continue to pray that the work will grow and flourish even as we look to His glorious appearing.

Equip! 2026 Program Report

Background

Equip! 2026 was the fourth cohort. We are grateful to God for the far He has brought us in shaping the vision of Equip! and bringing it to life. The transformation we have witnessed in the lives of the delegates is proof of His presence and outworking among us.

We had 10 delegates this year, of whom five were alumni of the Camp Moriah’s Nurture program, and the other five were recommended from other ministries and programs. We had four men and six ladies. One of the men came a little later.

The Ministry

The ministry was very fruitful and we bless the Lord.

We began by teaching Misingi - Foundations in Swahili. Misingi by Trinity Fellowship is a chronological 49-segment Bible teaching curriculum that traces God’s story from creation to the ascension of Christ Jesus. It uses traditional storytelling to recount God’s creation, human sinfulness, and Christ’s atonement. We offer Misingi both in Nurture and Equip!, and it provides an excellent opportunity to build a foundational understanding of the Bible.

We follow Misingi with the Normal Christian Birth, a course on the steps required for a complete New Testament Christian initiation.

The course on the Normal Christian Birth is developed from a book of the same title by David Pawson, who describes it as “a handbook on spiritual obstetrics”.

Although we admit only confessed believers to the Equip! program, we teach both Misingi and the Normal Christian Birth to help them clarify and confirm their faith.

We then look at inner healing accompanied by one-on-one prayer ministry. This stage allows them to unburden to God past pain arising from issues such as rejection, trauma, loss, unforgiveness, and even personal sin.

From there, gears change, and we embark on teaching them on how to make disciples and encourage them to continue working out their salvation and relationship with God. We teach them on clarifying their calling, and so that they can answer the great existential questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What then? We look at work from a Biblical perspective, relationships, and stewardship.

We also do related activities. We engage the students in Bible study and book studies as an avenue for Discipleship. We send them out to school ministry in some neighbouring schools, where they teach and share the gospel. They also plug in the local churches who partner with us, where they fellowship and share in available ministry opportunities.

The Living

Equip! is housed within the Camp Moriah centre. The Equip! delegates prepare their own meals. They also ensure the cleanliness of their dorms, the compound, and the other facilities, and they help to keep the farm. Unfortunately, we had poor rains this time and therefore managed only a small harvest of greens from the shamba. We are truly grateful to Bright Hope World, because we were able to buy all the food we needed even then.

The Schedule

The classes run from Monday to Thursday. The delegates go for school ministry on Friday morning and when they return, they spend time in prayer during the day. They are usually free during the weekends.

The Discipleship Camps (DTPs)

We ran a one-week camp for primary school students about ages 11 to 16. The students were mostly drawn from local schools, mobilised through the local churches. The DTP is run primarily by the delegates, as part of their practical training. They are involved in the planning, mobilisation and management of the Camp.

We had a total of 27 pupils during DTP. Ten of them became Christians. Because most of them were mobilised directly through the churches, we left their baptism to be arranged by the churches.

We are exceedingly grateful for this fruit, and we pray that these transformed children will remain true to the faith and that their lives will impact this community and reverberate across many generations.

Commissioning

It so happened that many of the students who were in college or preparing to join it needed to report to school by mid-August. So, we winded up the program right after the DTP, and we commissioned the delegates on 15th August 2026. We had a beautiful lunch together and commended them to God’s grace.

Testimonies

These are testimonies given by some of this year’s Equip! students:

“Well, the discipleship program in Moriah completely changed my life. During that time, I truly encountered the Lord and my whole mentality and perspective about life changed. There are things I got convicted of. I came to understand what it means to follow Jesus and live as His disciple. Since then, I have experienced positive changes in my life, and I am now walking in a new direction with Christ and even my previous friends wonder. I thank God for this journey and for what He is continuing to do in my life.”
— Wilson

“My time in Moriah was a season where God genuinely challenged and changed me. Through the Word, discipleship, fellowship, and serving others, I have come to see Christ more clearly and understand what it means to follow Him beyond just church attendance. God has exposed areas of my life that needed to change and has given me a deeper desire to know Him, obey His Word, and serve others. I left EQUIP with greater conviction about Christ and a desire to continue growing and helping others grow in Him.”
— Stephen

“[In Moriah] I experienced the revival that I yearned for and total transformation. In Moriah is where I had an encounter with Christ on 26th January 2026. From there on I have been experiencing Christ in a deeper way and am still holding on to my Faith and also making more disciples for Jesus as I was commissioned.”
— Zakia

“I'm [grateful] for that grace God gave me to be in Moriah. During my time in Moriah...God helped me to learn to forgive and allow Him to heal me of my past..and like Paul... forget the past. I also realised that the gospel is one and the rest that we often hear are derived from the original one...in Romans 1:16. I have been since then realizing that God is not yet done with me. At most...my life spiritually...is prospering.”
— Mary

“Before I joined Equip, I was living without true purpose and direction. While there I encountered Jesus in a real and personal way that changed my heart. I made a decision to surrender my life fully to Christ. Since then, God has transformed how I think, speak and live. He has helped me to leave my old ways behind and start doing things right according to his Word. Today I walk in peace, joy and a new desire to know him more and serve him faithfully. I give glory to him for saving me and his work that he continues to do in my life.”
— Linda

“I thank God for the grace He gave me to join Moriah. Moriah has transformed me greatly and helped me to know God better. My life has completely changed, everything has changed. I am grateful for the opportunity you gave me to know God better. I will not keep quiet about what I have been taught but will teach others also so that they too may come to know God.” 
— Esther 

Notable Successes

1) We are refreshed as we see the transformed lives of those who God brings our way.

2) We have been blessed by the maturity of the Equip! graduates, evident from their reformed outlook to life and their passionate resolve to follow Jesus.

3) We are encouraged by the fruitfulness of the school ministry and the DTP program, pray that it will be sustained.

Some Challenges & Recommendations

1) We had prolonged blackouts, in one case running for two weeks! It affected our food storage, since we buy much of it in bulk. Some of the food went bad and had to be thrown away. It also impacted the learning, especially when a facilitator needed to project some lessons. We will need to install solar backup in due course to supplement the utility company.

2) We also see the need to set up a good irrigation system for the centre’s shamba.

3) We have a bit of fatigue. We are hoping for helping hands, and there are some prospects next year.

4) We also desire to stock up the library more fully, so that we inculcate book reading and study in the various aspects of discipleship.

Conclusion

We are grateful to God that He has allowed us to participate in the transformation of young people as labourers in His vineyard, and to witness so many changed lives. We constantly pray that they remain steadfast in their faith and calling, in the midst of such a distracting (and destructing!) a world.

Thank you so much for partnering with us in this vast vineyard. God bless you.

We trust God for the grace to continue this work.

In His Service,
Jairus and Herma