2004 Photo Album

Photo above - FCB Class of 2004 from Sudan - Kenya - Ethiopia - Uganda Top Row: Howard, Daniel, Sammy, Titus, James, Samuel, Negash, Richard, Lamu, Mwendwa, Joshua S., Benson, Japheth, Moses.Center: Kogalloh, Mumo First Row: John A, Molla, Joel, Nyamai, David, Paul, Zenawi

What's New at FCB? Updated!!	2004 Student Evangelism to Menet
2004 Student Evangelism to Londilini	2004 Student Evangelism to Uganda
2004 Student Evangelism to Tanzania	FCB KIDS CLUBS

Graduation Ceremony at Faith College of the Bible 2004 December

The FCB Graduation Ceremony

"What a wonderful day the Lord gave us!" The tent was set up with the chairs on Friday evening, and the location they chose for the ceremony was accommodating. There were plenty of refreshments, with leftovers for the volunteer ladies to take home, and lots for the students to snack on as they left for evangelism in Tanzania that afternoon.

There were four choirs and Raymond brought the message, "Looking unto Jesus" from Hebrews 12:2.
The awards went to: Richard Kirui for highest overall academic record of graduates, and for Student Leadership; to Molla Dessie for highest GPA in 2004; to Titus Kimwele for Spiritual Life; to John Mwendwa for Evangelistic Zeal. These four each received a nice suit which Raymond had brought. Richard also received some cash since he had two awards.

Christmas gifts from Calvary School in Santa Ana were given to all students, staff and faculty and Board members, and their families. Geoffrey and Naomi did a super support job. "You should have seen Naomi spreading margarine on a hundred loaves of bread, with little Elijah tied on her back and peering around. Patricia (Sammy's wife) helped her."
The faculty will get a bit more of a bonus from money Bonnie was able to save for the event.

After the ceremony, 16 FCB students left for the evangelism to Tanzania.

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The Lockers Have Arrived!

We finally were able to get the foot lockers and give them to the students. Talk about some happy guys. You would think they were kings – really pleased to think that someone was interested enough in them to give them these trunks. And the color generally matches the School colors. The person pictured receiving the trunk is Benson....Howard


Munywoki (right) - FCB's cook, now has TWO new pots! Joshua Simba helps test the soup!	The New EACA OfficersAbove - On the right is Solomon Muthukya - center is pastor Sowek, the new General Secretary. Bishop Koske on far left, Bishop Were just in front of him.

Written by Howard Carlson -- July 2004

Dear Friends:

"Help! Someone has fallen into the water! Oh! Oh! The soldiers are shooting at us! Oh! I am so sad because some of my friends beside me died!"

This is what David, one of our Sudanese students, wrote in an assignment for College English class. It is a brief glimpse of what lies just beneath the surface of his quick smile. It is perhaps a shadow that follows

him as he prepares to take the Gospel back to the cruel murderers of his friends and family. These words help us understand some of the depth of character that drives David on. He has seen death and fled from the violence of Sudan to live the refugee life in Kenya.

David is but one of the students we have been teaching. Every student has his own story of suffering, poverty, and fears. The amazing thing is to see how God has called these young men to Faith College so they can prepare as evangelists and pastors. When they speak, their message carries the power and depth from knowing the cost of discipleship, and from knowing how God can deliver from any sorrow.

Thank you for helping us work with these students. Without your kind and faithful giving we could not be here. Without your support thousands they have reached would still be waiting to hear of Christ's great salvation.

Almost the whole student body will be in Uganda evangelizing while you read this note. Again they will be working in the most primitive conditions. But again we expect that God's Word will prove powerful in their lips and lives, and many will be saved. Pray for their ministry right now. We ask that you continue to support the educational works necessary to build up the church of Jesus Christ. Time is very short.

Most sincerely, Howard Carlson

Go! Director

Nairobi, Kenya--------------

Pastor Eppa of the Osajai School

Photo above was taken in April 2004 - in Teso just prior to the time that lightning struck Osajai's beloved Pastor Eppa - Eppa is the man in front-right, and his wife standing behind him. This was a sore grief to the Uganda students at FCB, Lamu and Moses - and to the Go! International Missionaries.

2004 Loved ones who have gone to be with the Lord.

Stan Westrom - Go! International Missionary

FCB Student, Negash Adera's mother in Ethiopia

FCB Student, Lamu's, little son Joel.

FCB Student, Lamu's uncle and Principal for Osajai Bible School - Pastor Eppa.

FCB Student, Lamu's niece Deborah.

Willard Carlson, Howard and Raymond's brother in Tacoma, who came to Kenya for a few weeks to assist Raymond and Ruth in the 90's.

Geneva's mother in Arizona. Geneva sends out the Go! Receipt Letters.

Pastor James Matui of Ngiluni and one of Raymond's first students at the BCofEA in the late 1960's

Rev. Victor Hall - One of the founding fathers of the East Africa Christian Alliance and Bible College of East Africa.

The Christian Testimony of James Musyoki - FCB Student

"I, James Musyoki, was born in 1978 in Nakuru District, Rift Valley Province. I am the last born in a family of eight, of which six are brothers and two sisters. But three brothers have been glorified to be with the Lord.

My father left us while I was still a child and took a second wife. We stayed with my mother who was not saved until I reached the age of joining school. Because life was hard, my elder brother who was working at Rongai Division took me to stay with him, and he also sent me to school.

Because he is a devout Christian he also took me to the Sunday School. That was in 1986 where the Sunday School teacher taught us a memory verse from the book of Matthew 6:33, "But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." At that time I was in class one. Though in a very young age this Word kept ringing on my heart.

When I was in class six, back in 1991, things were still not very promising because my father was still not reconciled to my mother. Since also my brother had his family to fend for, things were not so simple.

The verse that I had been taught in the Sunday School, kept disturbing my heart, and in the same year now as I was going to the Sunday School I kept pondering on the last part of the verse, "and all these things shall be added to you."

When I got to the church, the teacher taught us and when the Sunday School was finished, so that we go back home and give room for the church to start, I remained behind and I told my teacher that I had something I wanted to share with the church. Then the church assembled, the pastor gave a chance for everyone who had a testimony to share with the church. I rose up to testify using the verse that I had learnt in my heart.

After I had testified and confessed Christ as my personal Saviour, the church received me as one of the youths. I felt my heart relieved and a lot of comfort. As I was growing in the new faith, I was selected to be one of the Sunday School teachers. I loved doing this work above all things and on every Sunday could not let it pass without having taught, or leave the Sunday School to go untaught.

Then after I completed my primary school, I had passed well and my brother asked me what I would like to do. I answered him that I would like to join a Bible school if God opens a way. But he told me though he had not enough money, I had to go back to school and that I should repeat one year in primary school so that I may give him time to organize himself. He was also paying for my brother whom I follow, in a polytechnic [school[; so things were not so easy.

I did not hesitate, but the following year in 1994, I joined class eight and still continued to teach the Sunday School. When I came to sit for my national exams, God helped me and I got very encouraging grades. Again I reminded my brother of joining a Bible school, because I felt only like serving the Lord all the days of my life. My brother told me I had to join secondary school for my O level.

The Lord opened for me a way, and I got a nearby provincial high school, 20 kilometres away from home. When there I used to trek all the way during the weekends so that I may teach the Sunday School. From form one [high school] to the fourth form the Lord strengthened me, and especially when I remembered the verse in Philippians 4:13 that says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Surely God helped me so much that when I finished my O levels I was among the best in my school, but all was for the glory of God.

God answered my prayer, that if it was His will, to open for me a Bible school or a Bible college. Immediately after the O level exams, even before the results were out, God opened the door at Bomet Bible Institute and I joined there in 1999 and graduated in 2001.

I was sent to serve at Sumeek Africa Gospel Unity Church, where I may say I was taking my internship for two years; and through the grace of God and His Providence, He opened to me another door for me to continue my studies of His word at Faith College of the Bible. There is need for a trained pastor and servant of the Lord, because many today are being led astray by false teachers. Therefore it is my heart's prayer that He continue to strengthen me all the days that He has given me to live wisely and for His glory.

My vision after the studies here at the Faith College is to be a teacher which is my gift in teaching the word of God as missionary, either locally or internationally, or to be of help to the orphans. The prayer of my heart is that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.

I thank the Lord so much who has saved me with His own precious blood that was shed at Calvary, and for his high calling into his faithful and holy ministry. Amen."

-------------Joshua Musyoki

Norma Bailey

THE NORMA BAILEY ROOM AT FCB

The three faculty desks are in place in the Bailey Room, which was prepared as a faculty office for Shadrach, Joshua and Titus. They each have three lockable drawers, and the carpenter made a bookcase for each one.

The study is named Bailey Room because the funding is from the Norma Bailey Memorial. Instead of flowers the family asked for donations to fund organizations through her church. Norma was a member of the Gospel Baptist Church in Tennessee. She entered into the presence of the Saviour in the Spring of 2003.

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