Pastor Calvince and his team will walk 25 miles to reach remote areas with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Pastor Calvince Osongo’s Testimony
Pastor Calvince childhood had been extremely painful and filled with utter poverty. But through his testimony, the Lord is building a humble Christ-like character that is reaching people for Christ in Kenya. Here is Pastor Calvince heart-wrenching testimony: “I was born in a village know as Kangoje. My Father died when I was three years old. When he died, my mother was pregnant with my sister. We started to face a very rough life, so my mother ended up becoming a prostitute only so she could get my sister and myself one meal each day. After five years of this kind of life my mother died as a result of HIV/AIDS. At the age of nine I started life as an orphan, with my younger sister. After the death of both of my parents we were chased out of our area and I started to live in the trenches and tunnels with my sister. |
One of Pastor Calvince's churches planted in a remote area of Kenya.
I became a beggar for food, going to every house. I suffered greatly because my sister and I had to struggle with going to school. As time went on I worked as a slave for a cruel relative making bricks, and collecting garbage. I was looking for food that people gave to the dogs and from the garbage. When I was 16 years old, a pastor found me as I was collecting food from the garbage for our next meal. His name was Rashid, who had been a Muslim converted to Christianity. He tried to share the Gospel of Christ with me, but I did not want to listen to him. For I was wondering where this God was when my parents died and when I had been suffering without food, clothes, and had to sleep in trenches. I was feeling rejected and forsaken by everyone including God in this world. After one week, this pastor came again and began to share again about Christ to us. At that time, I came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and I accepted Him as my Savior. After this things began growing more rough and hard in my life. At the age of 18, God spoke to me four times while praying and through visions that He wants me to minister to my fellow street children. From there I started to preach to the youths on the streets and orphans whom had like me lost all hope in life. Because of these good works a well wisher helped me to find a place to live and I got the chance to go to Bible school and become a pastor”.
Since then, Pastor Calvince and his team of Gospel workers are reaching the remote villages of Kenya by motorbike and by walking in the jungles. They go by faith each day and God’s love motivates them to share His salvation plan with the lost and dying in Kenya. In the past before the ministry had any motorbikes they were totally motivated by Christ’s love for the lost. Pastor Calvince had walked over 20 miles to reach a very remote village where they desperately needed Christ. When asked why he would walk for 20 miles, Calvince replied, “It was God who sent me to visit that village. Many people accepted His salvation”. The Lord is working through Pastor Calvince and his gospel team, bringing many people to the Lord, healing the sick, and many young people are beginning to trust in the Lord because they know about his past life.
The beginnings of Independent Church in India (ICII) started over eighteen years ago when the Lord connected Lowell and Kathy Smith with Pastor Britto from India. In the same way we believe that the Lord has connected ICII to the ministry of Pastor Calvince which is day by day growing into something more beautiful and fruitful to reach masses of lost souls and reach out to the desperately poor in Kenya.
Since then, Pastor Calvince and his team of Gospel workers are reaching the remote villages of Kenya by motorbike and by walking in the jungles. They go by faith each day and God’s love motivates them to share His salvation plan with the lost and dying in Kenya. In the past before the ministry had any motorbikes they were totally motivated by Christ’s love for the lost. Pastor Calvince had walked over 20 miles to reach a very remote village where they desperately needed Christ. When asked why he would walk for 20 miles, Calvince replied, “It was God who sent me to visit that village. Many people accepted His salvation”. The Lord is working through Pastor Calvince and his gospel team, bringing many people to the Lord, healing the sick, and many young people are beginning to trust in the Lord because they know about his past life.
The beginnings of Independent Church in India (ICII) started over eighteen years ago when the Lord connected Lowell and Kathy Smith with Pastor Britto from India. In the same way we believe that the Lord has connected ICII to the ministry of Pastor Calvince which is day by day growing into something more beautiful and fruitful to reach masses of lost souls and reach out to the desperately poor in Kenya.
Watch our video "Reaching Kenya" and Pastor Calvince testimony: