Ag Seminar Report

Yesterday ended our two day Farmer’s/Ag student training seminar featuring the DVD video series called “Farming God’s Way”. There were 27 Ag students and approximately 33 farmers present for the seminar and many notes were taken by the attendees.

I really sensed a sincere heart’s desire from the farmers and students and a true willingness to begin to adopt the principles presented in the series such as (farming with joy, applying the technologies of using “God’s Blanket” mulching technique, applying high standards and timeliness and most importantly, “Giving God All the Glory”). The series stressed that God is all sufficient in our lives and our dependence upon His ways over our ways, even in farming.

Our hope is to stop off in a town called Kijabe on the way back to the airport to visit an actual Farming God’s Way training center to see about sending some students to become “Certified Trainers” before the next planting season. Our desire is that the Kenyan’s will take ownership of the technologies and be able to replicate the principles in many areas all across Kenya where the Ag students have come from. There could be literally 27 potential trainers coming out of the Kipkarren Training Center (Bwana Asifiwe…Praise the Lord!) So many of our guests were blessed by the series and their desire for change from “tradition” is strong. We stressed in the training that a small trial section done to high standards should be planted in each of their farms in order to demonstrate the principles taught.

A young Ag Extension Trainer named Isaac has been selected to do Extension Ag Teaching to area communities with incredible success. He has trained over 6,000 farmers in Tanzania and 3,800 in Kenya! He teaches in the areas of poultry, dairy, horticulture and vegetable gardening. Therefore, he has a very effective ability to touch people.

After viewing the FGW video series, he came up to me and said “now I don’t have to go seminary to discover the biblical truths in farming, but I can use this series to stress the purposes and plans of God to prosper His people through farming.” He is one of the candidates we hope to send to accreditation school in the future. He then introduced us to 3 of his volunteer training coordinators named (Timothy, Reba and Kathryn). All 3 fully appreciated the series and are excited about applying FGW principles on their farms and the other local farmers they help to coordinate training for.

(Doug, Daniel, Timothy, Kathryn, Reba, Tim II, Isaac)

Again, I cannot stress enough the value of your prayers in support of our privileged presence here and the effectively seized opportunities to share physical and spiritual truths!

Serving the King of Kings,

Tim Aman