Source: Haggai International, December 19, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The church service came to an end, and Pastor Vincent whispered a quiet prayer under his breath. With many new members from the Teso tribe in his congregation, he prays that they would come to rely on the one true God and not combine their Christianity with the indigenous beliefs and witchcraft he has witnessed in this region of Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although it is the second largest tribe in Uganda, the Teso community that lives along the Kenya-Uganda border was separated from the larger tribe during the historic scramble and partition of Africa in the 19th century and faces many challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pastor Vincent has been aware of the struggles and religious syncretism in this community and formed a team in 2019 to start praying for this unreached people group. His unwavering commitment to the Teso people has led to the planting of 15 churches in the Siaya and Busia counties in the last two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that Joshua Project considers the Teso of Kenya<\/a> \u201cpartially reached.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Haggai International, December 19, 2024 The church service came to an end, and Pastor Vincent whispered a quiet prayer under his breath. With many new members from the Teso tribe in his congregation, he prays that they would come to rely on the one true God and not combine their Christianity with the indigenous … Continue reading Kenya: Seeing Teso People Move from Superstition to Belief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13508,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions\/13508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}