 What's up, my people? This is Banya Sila. As always... Yo, what's up, my people? This is Banya Sila. Tu kwaopandani ena kuru. Siku me kwendefu. Lakin ni kazi lasma tu chapeban. Ausiyo. Hello, I'm Fred Luen. I'm from France. I'm very happy to be here in a kuru for the GTM week and then from Ziki facility too. So glad to be here. Hey, what's up everyone? DJ Gigi Apakamakawaida. It's a blessing to be part of this amazing project and as always representing Jesus Christ to the fullest. Yo, people, Dr. Eddie Kamakawa and Sissinuatua behind the scene. Lakin ni leo nima kwa mbelea kamera. Let's see what Nafraia kwaapa. Hello, my name is Laura Vray. I'm from the great state of North Carolina in the United States of America. I'm a worship leader there. My first time with GTM ministries in Kenya, Africa. So, guys, welcome. I know it's a short notice. Just tell us about today's cause and why we are here. I think today we had a slum outreach, a courtesy of Ziki Gospel Tours, Bani Asila doing an amazing job. He's an artist, but also at the same time bringing together these amazing missionaries from different countries to do an amazing job here in Nakuru County. The day has been amazing and we've been able to share the gospel of Christ with kids, ladies and gentlemen who are from the slum area. I don't know, the slum area is called Gioto. So the slum area is called Gioto or the dump site, right? So, most of the people in Nakuru know it as the dump site. We definitely had an amazing time. We started in the afternoon, started with some amazing singing from the missionaries who visited us from Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and the USA. And great singing, great weather. I don't know, Bani, if you can tell us about that. Well, the weather was great until some time. When we started during the day, it didn't seem as it could rain, so we knew that everything would be fine. But we knew that everything would be fine. But we knew that everything would be fine. We knew that everything would be fine. We knew that everything would be fine. And our objective was met because we had gone there to do music, to express love to those people that live there and to also get some people that we could kind of mentor and support in different ways. But most importantly to speak about Christ through our gifts, which is music. So, mambu lukwa poa, mubu lukwa lukwa poa, lukwa na sisi. They kept time, they were there, irregardless of the rain. And everybody else in the team was there also. I think thank you so much, guys, for withstanding the rains. I don't know if you've done this before, how was it? It was absolutely amazing. You know, when God calls you to do something, He never says it's going to be easy. He never says it's going to be convenient. Right? And I believe sometimes He allows certain situations to have a reality check to see if we're going to be committed to the call. Right? And so today was definitely one of those times, but there's always a blessing in the storm. Right? You know, sometimes we have to go through the storm to get the breakthrough of ministry, to other people's lives of making impacts on people's lives, which I believe we did today. Coming from the U.S., if I could just share this really quick, today was a reminder that coming from the U.S., where we have a lot of modern conveniences and benefits of life, and yet we can also find any excuse not to be about the father's business, not to go to the house of the Lord, not to lift up our hands and give God praise. Right? Yet today the amazing people that we reached out to today and ministered with had every reason not to be there. Right? But they were. And lifting up sounds of praise was so much joy in their heart and it was absolutely amazing and I think a testimony to the global body of Christ. So it was absolutely awesome. Very freshi barita. Just to ask you a question, so many people in the slums are going through and then we are of course to share one code to preach the teachings of the Bible through music and entertainment. Are there specific elements that we are focusing on for the music? Yeah, for sure we were focused on unity. It was the first theme we wanted to experience and for sure it was like... I'm not very comfortable with English. It's not my first language but it was like a prove or a test to test our unity. Pouring rain just when we started the sing. It was like, are you going to stay united? With the focus that you have and the focus was certainly not ourselves or even making great music but it was about making great music and I must tell as a quite director and singer and you know you guys make great things with music too and when we sing gospel music, great stages, a lot of origins, sometimes it could be a temptation to lose the sense. And what we test, oh I can speak only for myself, what I live today is that it brought me again to the sense. We can play on great stage with great musicians and instruments, great sound or whatever and we arrived here this morning for the rehearsal and having excellent musicians, these young guys can play with instruments. All the mechanics were not even there and the drums were like this but it sounds terrific. We went down there in the slum and you know even with we can use all the sound we installed because of the rain but whatever we sing, we sing with our heart and we could feel the joy, the response, the joy that went through this. So if you had asked me what happened for me today, I could say I sang real gospel music which is being here 100% at minimum and with all my heart sharing this. I don't know though in English there's no limit that you can feel over our limit, the beauty of God. Yeah. I want to just ask you if you have to bring the course of the world of national artist friends to the idea behind the course of the machine. So the idea behind this is well I'm an artist as you know of course I'm Kenyan but I haven't been around for some time so I looked around and so there was a huge gap I will say there are so many people out here there are so many people out here who are trying to get platforms where they can share the music internationally. There are so many people out here who wants to interact and get a platform and biotizer who are mentored by different people that have different other networks. So I saw this as a gap which I thought that since I'm in Finland he need to come out and as a fanya that later how I want to we create a platform where local artists can also get an opportunity to experience and get to be let's say trained or capacity built by such a great and professional choir director like Fred here Fred from Montpellier in France Fred is always moving around Europe to do workshops and train artists from those sites but him being in Kenya I think is very important to some young person somewhere in Nakuru that will get an opportunity to be taught by him. We don't just have him but we have about eight, nine international music directors. So that's really helpful. Videona Jua we have many many artists in Kenya I'm born in Djibutuftanjia Yakujisma Misha Napiwa in Djibutuftanjia network ziliot as itumia kama means of pursuing their dreams. So I think this is one of the projects that is really trying to to feel that gap that has been there so that has been my one of the reasons as to why we are doing this and of course we are also doing this because of God we are doing this because we want to reach out there we want to share the goodness we want to share the gospel we want to reach out to the people about God Wadona fakum jomungu ba Siku pigatu mziki apat is joh tuna piga mziki tu kenili akum siku mungu ama VIP So we just asked the you're not sure Laura Hi nice of the day maybe I know you come into Africa last time So we want to go Highline something of the land something maybe you just touch you want to share with the people you want to share with us Yeah yeah for sure to be totally honest huli sen kwa jume wana. Wana wana na uma kwa. Nikhwe kwa z'a vo mga mAA kentwa sine mjee enama kwa GTMu kwa hneu two kenya hwnanya Tika Nge nge na stata hwana hwa whowa hwa nga boza kwa hwana so kwa mwata w ви na mtya mtya mwa. Ani na mtya wiki mtya mwata maa nga. Kuhuhu na wiki mtya. Kuhu nga wiki mtya wa Kenya, waya wiki mtya, hako kainumia, ya ni mwenivu wiki mtya. Atiku wa kukwawakwej wa idi mtya wiki mtya. Wiki mtya wiki mtya. Wiki mtya wiki mtya. Bureni wiki mtya, wiki mejwiki maa nga. Kuhu na mtya wiki mtya, vapu penike pareza na matuhua a AMJ houses şek마 B farming imura Shumally lamw si va runda tia Miya kwa kwa mwillediku na wakayama? Kutia kuwana kwa mweldu hana taka kukasia, niya kikuwa kapalana na ibuwili. Tata wakaya mweldu hana kwa kia nii maukuwemi na kwa tata kwa wakana nmumili and koma huna ibuwili, vikunia. Tata wakaya nii maukuwemi kwa ukeida mweldu, Kupiyu na kwa muliha piaqusu, Cuta kuatrite. Kilani na kwa muliha piaqusu, na kwa ngei ubo kua kwa kutia, mahiwa mwera hwye wa kwa waa nkwa alimBI hwa hwye kwsio, hwye qisha fava kafutani, mahiwa mwa hwye kwa lalitu na kwa hwye lalitu na mega hibunia. Hwye hwye mwa hwye kwa kwa kwa kwa wesewa na hwye. Wengu mwa hwye wesewa na bukua. Mwye mwa hwye kwa kwa waisewa na bwye mwye. wa hany้ p ninuriye Wa n mistam hani nga hubera wa hana. Ikodiana kwa h winding wewa,うmi mo ni'ri kwa kum Kenyon straja wa kujini una보다 um Ni nabinistri? Well what I will say about that is there has been a lot of talk in the industry about where our music, the kind of direction our music has been taking and there has been a lot of complain that maybe artists are not putting in a lot of work or they are not pushing themselves enough. But I would say the difference is that we don't really have something to look up to. So what Bernie is doing, I just believe it would set the treadmill rolling so that anybody else who would want to do this, they would have something to look at and say I would like to do what Bernie did. You understand? So I think what is happening here is that it's kind of what we call it, what I would call it is the wadi mepotea but it's like wulem tu anansisha kitu. Yeah, so because you understand a little way back probably five, ten years ago gospel music was like the in thing in the country but right now we couldn't say as much. Yeah, but I would say when we have something like this happening and I believe at a parle pinyatuko maybe kwa shule or at the slum where we were today, there is somebody when you go parle, when you maybe any aspiring musician, you never know. Naki onaki tu kama ina fanyin ka hansisha, they will be like when I grow up I want to do what that guy did today and I want to do what I saw maybe Laura and the team do today and I believe that is impactful to the society. Yeah. All right, Bernie, just to ask you what next? What next? Kazimingi bana, Kazimingi. So now we have about 44 singers that we are here with from five different countries that is Spain, Norway, Sweden, Germany and France. This tour is scheduled to culminate into the major event which is International Night of Worship. The Night of Worship event shall take place in Nakuru from the Nakuru on 2nd of July. Ita kwa parle ACK Cathedral. Alafut shukwot naimbana, local artists beer, but more importantly, after that, we have International Musiki Gospel Festival. Ambayunans are on 5th of July. We are expecting 200 people to come. They have already registered, they bought their flights so now they're just waiting for a week or something and they'll be their flights coming here. So, this festival, the Mziki Gospel Festival will also culminate to the Gala concert, which shall happen on 9th of July. So, 9th of July to Na Mziki, to Na event Moja Motosanapa Nakuru, Nyayogaden. Basically it will be an event to just share, sing together, learn cultures, create opportunities for people, network and so many other forums. So, after that I'm going back to Finland in the month of August. I have a tour, I'm getting some people here who are coming with me. I have a tour there for three weeks. After that I'm coming back to Nairobi. I'm coming back to Nairobi before the end of the year because I have my own tours again in Kenya. Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu Eldoret and Nakuru. We have a tour for my music. So, this year I'm coming here packed but there are so many other things coming up. So, I'm reminded of the story of Esther in the Old Testament in the Bible. Esther had a tragic life. Her parents were murdered basically. And she had to be raised by extended family and you can imagine the thoughts that probably happened to her. That because of what she had been through, that she might not ever be anything. But God had a plan for her life. And as you know, Esther was chosen by God to be the queen. Come on, somebody. That is so awesome. And that's exactly how our God does. It doesn't matter what you've been through. It doesn't matter what you've been through. It doesn't matter what you've been through. It doesn't matter what you've been through. It's so awesome. And that's exactly how our God does. It doesn't matter what you've been through. It doesn't matter what other people might say you are. It's who God says you are. Always. God always gets the final say over your life. And that is what I would tell any young girl right now. Just surrender your life to Christ and let him do the rest. He always has the final say. And Jeremiah 29 and 11 says that he has a perfect plan. Hallelujah for your life. That would be my encouragement to you. Man, if you listen to this, I probably don't know you. But there's one thing I know. It's going in the same direction that Laura said. You never know how God can use you. Because we don't understand the way he works. It's too big for our own mindsets. But whatever you do, do it, do it and do it. Keep on doing it. Because everything that happens in your life is a stone to build the house you're going to be. Is that image correct to you? So I can speak for myself. I was a son of a pastor. I was a son of an English pastor. And I was born and raised in a family of musicians. But when I got a teenager, I just refused to go to church. And to just even hear about God. I didn't want to make music anymore because I was kind of fed of music. And didn't want to speak a word in English. But look what he did to me. Turned me singing his music in English. I could have sing in French. No, he had to use English part of me. All that I rejected, he used it for me. So whatever happens in your life, take it. It's another stone to build you and to wherever you have to go. And it could be even more than you can imagine. Yes, that's so inspiration. I don't know if you manage to inspire any DJ, a young DJ maybe looking up to you. And then talk to the families because they believe. Even if you believe in the word of God, you have to work hard because the cost of living is high. You can't preach, you have to work to eat. Alright, so probably there's any DJ who's watching. Well, not even a DJ, someone who's aspiring to be a DJ, a young person. If you have swiped and you found this video on Instagram or anywhere. This is a video for you, you need to be watching it. And I would just encourage you and tell you, number one, put God first in everything that you do. Because at the end of the day, just like Laura said, He has the plan for your life. Number two, I would also urge you to make sure you practice and perfect your craft. Make sure you're the best at what you do, which is music and DJing. And also number three, I would also tell you, network. Get kujua, say. I believe that even us doing this is as a result of the network that Bani has created. And even just us being here, we are able to connect and also to help each other on the journey of life. So I would urge you definitely network. And then finally also allow yourself, don't be too hard on yourself. If you fail at one point, pick yourself up and just move on. And God is always, always with you. And I know there are people just like I was asked, you know, who are sitting down and wondering, nini nini neza fanya kwa sababu ekonomi me kwa noma sana, sana. And you know, I would urge you, there's the worldly economy, but there's also the kingdom economy, which is, you know, the kingdom economy cannot be what you call it. It can't be exhausted. It's unlimited. So if you do the things that are in the word of God, if you're saved, are you tithing? Are you giving to the sick, to the poor? There's a way the kingdom economy works. And God is able to do an amazing, amazing thing in your life if you put the kingdom principles of how the economy of the kingdom needs to be. And the economy, you know, will tell you, and this might be a bit controversial, but they'll tell you, take loans, you know, being debt and all that. Nothing that they're bad. I'm just saying God can direct you into how you need to reach that financial freedom, even at a time as this when we are going through, you know, such a hard time economically. So that's what I would encourage families, you know, hanging there every day before you start your day. Make sure you pray because once you commit your day, once you commit your hustle to the Lord, then he will direct your steps just like Proverb 16, right? Yeah, so. Geto mentality. Tito geto mentality. Well, what I would say, I would like to speak to either established musicians or aspiring musicians and anybody actually in the industry. If what I would say and I believe with what I've done for the industry, I would speak from a point of authority to say this that if you want to do gospel music, do gospel music. Yeah, there are no in-betweens. If you are a gospel musician, sing music for the church. Yes. And what we want to say, but what people don't know is that the gospel industry is moving back to the church. Yes. And I believe I would call it a restoration because there are a lot of things that happened that have been a bit of the cause of what we would call the direction a gospel industry should take. But right now things are going back to the church. And if you sing and you see the Bible is the Bible and the word is the word. God is looking for those who worship Him in truth and in spirit. So if you stick to that, stick to the values, I believe everything will be fine. Yes. Thank you guys so much. Bani have something maybe to add? Wotokujena kuru bani? Wotokujena kuru? Wotokujena kuru. Kama kuna kuru tunane 2nd of July from 4 p.m. Sige kathidol of the Good Sheffard. Ama Nyayogadens na kuru at the city center from 4 p.m. to na eventing in a motosana pale. Kuleta iwa to see him chezobana. We welcome you all if you're in a kuru, if you're in Nairobi, if you're in Loret, if you're in Kisumu. Chapa road trip to Tembe. Ita kua Sunday. So you can easily come and join us and then later on go back to whatever places you're coming from. Nasi juhi ji juhi, wimaliza mvp. Wimaliza eh? Alright, thank you so much. Alright, thank you guys so much. Thank you so much. You good? An international act burning asila all the way from Finland to amazing city of Nakuru for an amazing course. Tell us, what did you manage to do this? We've seen you doing amazing things, bringing international guests, international artists in our country doing one of our kind event. We have our own, they're not pulling such event, they're not pulling such a creative, a big, I can put it a big concert, something promising for the young generation. That is very simple. Nijibutu. Takata. That's simple. Number one, as you have said, we have our own, but they're not doing such. If you remember, Palemwanzo, I said, kuna pointu nilise ma? Kuna pointu nilise ma? Kuna pointu nilise ma? Thnks. Nijibutu nilise ma? Nijibutu nilise ma?