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KERUDO

Kenya Evangelical Rural and Urban Development Outreach

Ministry Activities

Rev. Yusuf, seven Maasai speaking evangelists plus three paid staff, five volunteers and members
of their families engage in the following activities:

  • Evangelism: door-to-door, Jesus Film shows and evangelistic rallies
  • Planting of at least two new churches every year.
  • Providing spiritual nurture in Bible study groups and discipleship classes.
  • Medical Mobile Clinic visits five times a week.
  • Training workshops in immunization, nutrition, health education, family life education and counseling of married couples.
  • Famine relief during the last two years' severe drought
  • Providing adult literacy classes
  • Training of evangelists and community leaders.

During its first six years of ministry, KERUDO has planted six churches among the Maasai with 440 members. Three of these have mud walls and corrugated iron sheets as roofs, the other three still meet under trees. Last November, over 65 converts were baptized by immersion.

KERUDO's preventive and curative medical work through mobile clinic visits has reached 250 of the 400 families in the target area in the year 2000. There has been improvement in immunization of infants and children, in nutrition, water sanitation and family life.