 There is more to ministry than spreading the gospel and blessing people in accordance to the Holy Scriptures. In today's episode, we speak to an ordained man of God who sheds more light on this and elaborates more about his life journey and current projects. My name is Apostle Varity Fricker. ID names are Varity Fricker. I am Karyuki. I am a pastor and a minister of the gospel. I am a pastor with a church called Christ in Action Ministries. We are based in Nairobi, Kassarani. That's where our church is. About me when I was born, I've been born all over Kenya. I was born in Kandara. Then we moved to a place in Moranga called Gatturi. Then later we moved to Jujia where I did my primary school. Then later I moved to Mombasa, Okunda. So that is my life. It has been alive being all over when I was growing up. Of course because of many challenges, family issues. Sometimes along, I think when I was about three years, there was a separation that happened between my parents. So it is the reason why we had to move from one location to another. Maybe trying to find a better place or a green pasture. Then after finishing school in Jujia, I went to Mombasa. I stayed in Okunda. That's also where I started ministry. Then I came back to Jujia in the year 2004. I joined a church called Bible Baptist. Where now I got into real ministry. I started as a pianist. I was playing piano. Then after playing piano, I graduated to be a youth leader then to a youth pastor. In 2007, after there was post election violence. January 2008, I moved back to Mombasa, Okunda. Now that is when I started the church. We were working with another pastor. I knew very well that this is what I wanted to follow. Life is very funny because sometimes we grow in some shake up backgrounds. Where there is no clarity about life. Where you don't know what exactly will come out of this life. You are raised by a single mother. There are a lot of struggles. No food, no clothes. When I did my class 8, there was not even money to take me to high school. So you are in a situation where you don't understand exactly what will come out of your life. But I thank God because in this confusion, I chose to run to church. I remember when I was in tune in primary, I had started doing drugs. I had already started taking a lot of alcohol or go to school drunk because of the pressure. And that was coming from home. But around class 8, one day I was very drunk. It was in the month of, should be March, I was very drunk. And I went to school and we were having an exam. And the teacher came and said the exam was going to start at 8am to I think was about 10.45. Then I was like teacher I can help you to solve this problem. This is a simple mathematics I can help you. Then everybody was laughing in the class. And they were saying, nimulevi, nimulevi. That exam turned to be our edex. There are those exams we were doing those days that were called edex exam. Zakukupia edex namba ya KCPE. I sat for the exam. After even the teacher realized I was drunk and it was a mathematics exam. And I got I think 96%. Oh God. That is when I decided I will not drink again. I was like if I would score this and I was drunk. I think if I stop drinking I will become a better person in the society. So I decided after we closed school I decided I'm not going to drink again. But now what will I do? Even I'm drinking and I'm not in school. What am I going to do in this holiday? So I met a pastor then doing a crusade and I joined him. He was setting up some equipment. I joined him. The man of God was very happy that he had gotten a young man and he told me, why don't you join the church? I teach you how to play piano and how to be setting this equipment. And I was like, ah, it's a good idea. So that's how I transitioned from secular life of drinking and actually if it never changed, I think I would be one of the worst people in this world. One thing about young people and that's where we go wrong is because we are not able to discern our path as early as possible. I come from a family of seven siblings. We are seven of us. So now this growing up and all these changes of location, moving up and down schools and everything really formed who I am today. I think the person I am today because of how I was inspired by my growth. We grew in a place where there was no food. I grew in a place where there was no school fees. I grew in a place where there was no shelter. There was a time my mum was so frustrated. My father had left us six of us then. He had left six of us with my mum. We are in a place you need to do, you need to research kathuri. Kathuri is known in Kenya. Those people who know about kathuri are kathuri. Nima halikum gumu. Maisha gumu. So my mum was very frustrated. There is no food. We have a small land. Even if you farm, there is not enough food to take us through the seasons. So sometimes I remember my mum decided to go looking for my dad. My dad was in Lamu. So my mum left. We stayed for like two months alone. My elder brother was, I think, then he was about, if he was not 17 or 15, I think 15, because I think I was still very, very young. I was still in lower primary. My mum left for three months. He had gone to look for my dad and then my dad, being my dad, did not give mum transport back home. So Lamu is not here. Lamu is about 700 kilometers from Nairobi. So mum cannot walk. So she stayed for another, I think, few months to work out the transport back home. So now we are alone for three months. You have to find your way. You have to know how to eat. We are not going to school again actually. We stayed out of school for two years. So you have to figure out, the three boys, we had to figure out what are we going to eat. My brother even had sometimes decided to go still. He would go to some people's farm and steal some arrow roots, steal some maize for us. Because of these happenings, when I joined church, something started being formed in me. And I started developing, would I call it, sympathy and empathy. So I started growing somebody else in me. Someone who now started viewing life from a different angle. I started realizing that anything that happens to our lives, especially good things, is not a must, is a privilege that God has given us. I started developing interest on how people live. So not 2013, 2010. I started developing this desire to know how other people live, how other children grow, how other families are doing. It became an interest and I will really focus to the poor people. This less fortunate people, the vulnerable children. And by the grace of God, 2010, I joined Danangio and was a field officer. So I was going around for children homes in the streets. I would go in the villages where people are infected by jigas. I am the field officer to see, to assess. One of the greatest ways God uses us is by using us to reach other people. God created in us different gifts, created in us different abilities that were not to help us. Like now, I am a pastor and I preach. I teach the Word of God, I pray for people. I do all these things other pastors do. But the people who sit down to preach to them, I come and even pastors will agree. Many times we come with someone thinking about them. It is not about us. We come carrying a sermon thinking about the people we are going to preach to. We come with a sermon about maybe how God will lift you from where you are to another position. Even if you want to be lifted. But imagine when you are planning this and you are preparing for this sermon. You are not in mind of it. You are thinking about them. You see pastors in the church saying, anybody who needs prayers, come. I pray for you. If you are jobless, if you need money for school fees, they are not considering themselves. But the gift in you is not for you. It is for the other person. We have there a postavariate freak foundation that concentrates only on food. I decided that because I grew up without food. That's why I'm doing food and school fees. Because I grew without food and school fees. I'm trying to do to other people what I could not get. I know I may not touch many. But even if it is 10 or 20, that is what God enabled me to do. I started donating food now. So this one now I gather food from people. You know, unga. It's nothing stuck in cheli. Takanga unga. So I gather unga as much as possible. I gather unga, unga, unga, unga. Then I go donate. I do this every month. Last month I gave about 180 families unga. We give them unga and then we give them like 100 or 200 shareings for buga. We give them buga, maskari, kunye chayna, kunye trungi na naugari. This was bathed by the knowledge of this life you need to realize your purpose. We have intelligence, by the way, of the people that are today in need. Except those people who call you random, we know the right people. But to avoid having a problem with the people to help or to give food or to support, I decided I would target a group. I cannot help everybody again. I cannot be a blessing to everybody. I must have a group. That's why you hear people saying, So I decided my target group to make my work easier will be the elderly. I'll feed the elderly. This came up when I went to visit my grandma who is still alive in Moranga, Kandara. I went to visit my grandma and they were sitting there with other elder women. And then my grandma was like, Have you given these people lunch? He's like, oh, what did the kid do? Then I'm like, how? I have nothing to give them. Then when they left we started having a conversation with her. And she's telling me, you see that woman, she works for about 2km to come and eat here. People have forgotten their grandmas and their parents. People have moved to Nairobi and girls and boys have taken over our lives. I would buy a TV for my girlfriend worth 50,000 and my mum would be struggling to eat in the village. It's just a generation and you know you cannot, dispensations change. And that is the real dispensation we are in. We have nothing to do about it. So people have forgotten about the people in the village. In the department of school fees, I rarely help people who come like help me. The easiest way in life by the way is by introduction. There is a topic I always talk about introduction. The easiest way to life is about introduction. So I help people who are introduced by other people. Because there is no way you can tell me we help someone and you know me and you are not sure about the case. You introduce a case that you have seen that is needy. You bring it to me or to us and then we consider the case and then we support. How do I get the food? How do I get, how do I... Ihum sad and atua happy. Initially I was doing alone, but I realized that demand is going up. Demand is going up, demand is going up. Then I realized I can no longer handle it. Because for example, like I told you last month on 16th I gave about 150 to 180. I didn't even count. But when I left Nairobi going to take that food to Moranga, I had asked for 40 families. On my arrival they were already more than 50. After they saw my car, then they knew Moodosia Mekuja. They came like a flood. Within no time even the food that was in the car was not enough. So I had to send for more. So I realized this growing and somebody was telling me if you go back that place again you will find 500 people. When I realized the numbers are growing I started looking for partners. So my friends, my friends they are the people who partner with me. I tell people I'm having this project on this particular date. So they join hands, they buy unga for you. If people have clothes they give you. And then I donate what I intended to. Then that's how I've been doing it. There are so many people in need outside there. There are people suffering outside there. Forget about the other thing, food. There are people sleeping hungry outside there. There are people willing to help. Actually this is the funny thing. Kenyans are so loving, Kenyans are so generous. They are willing to help but they don't know where to help. They have no idea. They are busy working in Nairobi so they don't know what is happening out there. So I decided that I want now to make people know what is happening out there. So anybody that is willing to help will help. So the response from the beneficiaries is amazing. They are like I want to set up three businesses. The purpose of these three businesses is not to enrich me and my children. The purpose of these businesses is every profit will be for donations. Of course even the business will be donation because I will take poor people that I'll need to employ them there. Then the profit from there will save it and then use their money to help other people. How does, how people will ask you what do you benefit from that? I benefit by fulfilling the purpose of God. I have friends. I do what I call Apostle Varity Freaker Ministry. Now that is now the church aspect. So actually that is what feeds the Apostle Freaker Barity Freaker Foundation. The ministry feeds the foundation. So I have this program I do on Facebook every day Apostle Varity Freaker Ministry. Every day at 11pm or 11.30pm. I share the word of God there. Now that time has turned to be more favorable to people outside Kenya who are Kenyans. So I have a number of few people that have been a blessing to me and even to that ministry. I have one lady who is in United States. This lady sometimes she would carry the burden like it is harsh. She is called Monica. She is in USA, North Carolina. And I have another group of people. Also in USA I have people like somebody called Monica Mwangiwen. We have Keta Paulos. We have somebody called Gracious Mombi. We have somebody like Angi. And for your information the most generous people in this life are women. We have a vision along the way we are going to build a center. This center is not where we keep people. This center will be keeping food. We want to have our knowledge where we will be keeping food. At itukiskiya tarifa kuna mtu a konanja a komero. Tuna sema atutumiwe direction. Tuna tumakampuni zaku deliver zi deliver. To make sure that my vision is that in the next five years hakunam tu atalala nja nikiwa na jua. Hakunam tu kwa wuku talala wa nja nikiwa na jua. Nikiskiyam kuna nja kumoja nita haki kisha mekula mwezi. After one month God will come. Mungu haka angisana You see even the people we are giving food. Some of them I remember one person I assisted in I think in 2018 I gave them money for food. In 2020 wakatuwa korona that person gave me 50,000. So it's not a it's not a kodi. I want to tunas idea, see maskini. I don't say we are helping the poor. I say we are helping the needy. It's a need. It's a need of that particular movement. So if you are watching me your young person there pursue your purpose and stop running after money, fame. Even if they are the young people that are famous we are created for different. Everybody has their path. Everybody has their way and Godly mandate, Godly purpose is different. There are people who become celebrities in 19 years. Others at 10 years. Others will be celebrities at 6 years. Wherever you become a celebrity or you have become known if you want to become one you just wait for the timing of God. And for those people who are watching me and you are there you have something you can give to another person and you are not doing it. I want to tell you this life is about touching a life. If you have clothes why do you have 10 pairs of shoes? Give one or two. Why do you have 20 pairs of dresses? Why are you going with them? Share. Why do you have 3 sets of TV in your house? Why do you have 15 cars in your compound? My friend become a blessing. That is why you are created. Be a blessing for God to bless you even more and expand your territory. So thank you so much. I appreciate it. Until next time, God bless you.