Africa Inland Mission
Alan and Pauline Jordan are missionaries with Africa Inland Mission working in Nanyuki, Kenya.
Reverand Alan Jordan teaches the Bible Training Certificate for Pastors (BTCP), preaches at the local AIM church, offers pastoral care to many, including those serving at the British Army Trining Unit Kenya (BATUK), and much more. Pauline supports Alan, runs a bible study and prayer group with BATUK wives, provides pastoral care to many, and looks after missionaries travelling to or from northern areas of Kenya.
Here is an extract from Alan and Pauline's January 2025 Journal
Nanyuki AIC church did a church plant in a village called Matanya about 20k from Nanyuki into the bush interior. Early in 2022 the villagers and others around the area organised a harambee which is a fund-raising event to build a basic stone rectangular structure with iron sheets as a roof. They were hoping to complete the building by June 2022. But sadly, most of the money raised got squandered, misused and somehow wasn't accounted for.
Today you can see the foundations are in place but nothing else but grass and weeds growing over it. The regular attendees stopped coming. However, prayers were still offered up for this community and the AIC church.
Now the villagers meet in an iron sheet building not much bigger than our sitting room but half the size of the foundations nearby. The structure is made of tree branches nailed together and then the iron sheets nailed to the sides and on top. There is a mud floor with gulleys running down the inside for the rain to drain away. The windows on one side of the structure are wood shutters which open to let in the breeze. The mother church in Nanyuki donated blue plastic chairs.
Alan was asked to preach at AIC Matanya, a Kikuyu village where two of his students, Robert and Faith have recently started to attend. The whole service was such a blessing, Alan spoke on the Samaritan women of Sychar and how Jesus can give her a spring of water welling up into eternal life. The photo shows Robert translating into Kikuyu.
The small church didn't have electricity or microphones, just a drum. The children sang, “I will make you fishers of men” and other choruses. A lady gave her testimony of how God is blessing her. Also, a man, named Elias who told us he was once a drunkard and on drugs, he had nowhere to live, but these people, pointing to the small congregation told me about something else which could fill my life with far more satisfaction than alcohol. He told us Jesus is his friend and now He is all I ever need. The church attendees have since appointed him as the caretaker of the little church, so he lives in a small humble room, built on the side of the feeble church structure.
It was such a joy to fellowship with these lovely people who obviously wanted to worship and praise God together and receive blessings from Him. Including children there were about 20 there. Pray we can encourage and feed these people the truth of the Word of God. They were hungry for more teaching. Please pray a well-trained pastor can shepherd these people.
We meet on the second Tuesday every month at 7pm to pray for the work of Alan and Pauline in Kenya. Check out the calendar for more details.