God has been doing amazing things at International University of East Africa. Last Semester we have had activities happening and through it all, we have seen some amazing changes in Students life.
We have been having discipleship training happening at the campus. This started out of some interaction and personal engagement with some students. Friendship that was fostered with the young Christians became a great opportunity to start an accountability tool and DT (Discipleship Training) was our tool. DT was simple to use in pointing on practical disciplines and spiritual disciplines like prayer, scripture memory, studying God’s word, witnessing in their sphere and influence also weekly prayer meetings with a prayer partner. DT has been a great tool, it works well both for groups and one on one.
The commitment and change has been great! One of our students, Gloria, helps to coordinate. One of the areas that we have seen is change in relationships. The students are having more genuine and godly relationships. Currently, the main group that has been reached with the Discipleship Training are the ladies. There is need to reach the male students and having a bigger mixed group, whatever the opportunity that is, it’s imperative we grab it the soonest.
We had students graduate from Mizizi late April. We saw Fifteen students graduate. The Mizizi resource has been an effective outreach/ discipleship tool for new believers. Some of the students have even given their lives to Christ during the sessions.
The goal at the end of the day is to see transformation of these students. Some of the practical ways that help in this have been the half -day of prayer and fasting, scripture memory, forming prayer partnership and doing evangelism with prayer partners, memorizing Scripture with prayer partners, spiritual gift inventory, social justice, Global mission adopting a country and praying for it as a group, and the class retreat – which also is the commissioning.
Our Mizizi slogan is,” we are real people with real issues coming before a real God”. We saw this come into fruition with the last class. By the end of the 10 weeks most of them had come out of their shells becoming vulnerable and truthful.
We also challenge the students to go out and teach what they have learnt. We have challenged a few of the students who graduated mizizi to help out in the next semester. Currently we have mizizi happening with the foundation students.
We are grateful for the great things that God is doing and we are trusting Him for even more.
