Paul Heidebrecht has touched many students, faculty, and alumni of AIU with his compassionate and dedicated work. Through CLA, he has equipped them for ministry by offering financial assistance. Without Paul, we would not be seeing the fruits of so many lives touched by the gospel.

Paul served CLA faithfully as its Executive Director since 2002. During those nine years, he took CLA from being an idea to being the full-fledged organization it is today. In August 2011, Paul sensed his service to CLA drawing to a close and resigned from his position to pursue other ministries. Read the full story »

Paul Heidebrecht has touched many students, faculty, and alumni of AIU with his compassionate and dedicated work. Through CLA, he has equipped them for ministry by offering financial assistance. Without Paul, we would not be seeing the fruits of so many lives touched by the gospel.

Paul served CLA faithfully as its Executive Director since 2002. During those nine years, he took CLA from being an idea to being the full-fledged organization it is today. In August 2011, Paul sensed his service to CLA drawing to a close and resigned from his position to pursue other ministries. Read the full story »

Engineering Ministries International (EMI) is a non-profit Christian development organization made up of architects, engineers and design professionals who donate their skills to help children and families around the world step out of poverty and into a world of hope.

They are a Christian ministry that designs facilities that serve the poor in developing countries. These facilities (including hospitals, orphanages, schools, clean water projects and more) directly impact communities by meeting physical needs and communicating God’s love in a practical way. They partner with Christian workers, pastors, and other non-profits who have a vision to help the poor and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Read the full story »

The mission of Christian Leaders for Africa (CLA) is to promote theological education on the African continent and in particular, to generate support for schools such as Africa International University (AIU) in Nairobi, Kenya.

The focus of CLA is to raise money in support of the students, faculty, programs Read the full story »

Karura Community Chapel is a community for the true worship of God, a home for the care and growth of God’s people, and a base for fulfilling God’s purposes. The purpose of the church is to be a worshipping community, helping one another to be obedient to God’s Word and to be ambassadors of Jesus Christ in a needy world. The church is part of the Nairobi Chapel Family Read the full story »

Rev. Capt Richard Mayabi donated to Africa International University five computers, which are being used by the students in the computer lab. Other than being an Alumni of NEGST, a constituent school of AIU, Rev. Mayabi is also the chairman of the alumni committee of AIU.

Rev. Capt. Richard Mayabi has worked as pastor, evangelist, pioneer missionary, and church planter. He describes himself as a “humble servant of God” with the “faith of a buffalo” and a “passion for grassroots ministry.”

Prior to taking the helm at Church Army Africa in January 2009, Rev. Mayabi pastored growing congregations in Read the full story »

Educating Africans For Christ, was founded in 1997. Missionaries returning from Africa to the USA realized that many of the fine young people they had met had no hope  for future training because funds were inadequate, hence they saw a need to set up a foundation to give such young people an opportunity to be trained through student scholarships.

The purpose of EAFC is “to equip those with a calling from God to do whatever work God has called them to for His glory, rather than for personal advancement,” according to the EAFC board of directors. The foundation seeks to collaborate with churches in Africa as a means of providing monetary Read the full story »

The Nairobi  Baptist Church has been supporting NEGST not only by ensuring that their pastors train here, but also in missionary support. Annually the church contributes a sum of  Ksh. 81,250 to support needy students at NEGST. Pinto Kali and Joy Nandokha are pastors with the church, and are doing their masters here now.

Nairobi Baptist Church was founded in 1958 by a group of 20 people made up of Africans, Asians and Europeans who took local initiative and covenanted to form a congregation of born-again believers. They identified and responded to the need for a local congregation through open membership. This membership is based on personal Christian faith and drawn from society’s multi-ethnic groups. The church places a deliberate emphasis on an expository ministry of the Word.

We are very grateful to Nairobi Baptist church for their support and we wish them God’s blessings in all that they undertake.

NEGST was graced by the presence of Professor  Andrew Walls, who spoke at chapel about servant leadership and led an all-day seminar. Walls is one of the most important interpreters of Christianity and its missionary role in our time. His understanding of the church’s transformation from Christendom to world Christianity cuts across disciplines of history, theology, mission studies, and biblical exegesis.

Walls is known not only for his pioneering scholarship, but also his generosity of spirit, time, and intellectual energy, especially with his students. One would be remiss not to mention his sense of humor, theatrical gifts, and appreciation for literary works. NEGST faculty who have trained under Walls include Read the full story »

NEGST held a conference on “Politics, Poverty and Prayer: Global African Spiritualities and Social Transformation”, bringing together scholars, researchers, practitioners of  diverse religious traditions and spiritualities, and policy makers for intellectual exchange and dialogue.

During the conference, the academics and representatives of religious/spiritual communities and organizations drawn from  Africa, the Caribbean, North & South America, Europe and the Middle East explored interrelated issues on religion, spirituality, socio-capital, public roles, definitions of and measures toward combating poverty.

The keynote speakers were Bishop David Niringiye from Kampala, Uganda and Dr. Afe Adogame from the University of Edinburgh.

First, the conference provided a platform in which researchers on African and African-derived religions and spiritualities encounter practitioners of religious traditions and communities firsthand. The conference served as a laboratory in which researchers can test their hypotheses or present research findings on respective groups, with corresponding feedback from the practitioners themselves.

Second, the conference stimulated a common dialogue, by gathering people with diverse research expertise on the one hand, and practitioners with varied spiritual backgrounds on the other, to highlight and explore how and to what extent African and diaspora religious traditions and spiritualities may cohere on the critical issues which confront the African continent, their faiths in relation to the wider, global community.