 Good afternoon church. Good afternoon. I'd like to welcome you all to the afternoon service. We'll begin with a word of prayer. Let's pray. Our everlasting lord, we thank you so much for your guided us from morning till now. As we continue with the song service, may you join us and may we be blessed. This is a prayer of living and trusting Jesus Christ. Mighty name. Amen. We proceed with our song service. We'll start with song number 456, my lord and I. My lord and I. Let's sing together. Let's proceed with song number 109, marvelous grace of our loving lord. Song number 109, grace that is greater than all our sins. The grace of our loving lord, grace that is greater than sin and yonder on cover is power. Sin is fair like the sea with gold. Threaten the soul in it. It is greater, yes, grace unto it. It is greater than sin. It plays that is prayerful sound. Jesus says, says, Jesus says, says, God and God, Jesus says. We have an afternoon session that will begin now and will continue with the presentations that the pastor had in the morning. And we want to thank the lord for the opportunity that he has granted us to be able to sit here this afternoon. I want us to begin with the word of prayer. Can we all bow down for a prayer? Our father in heaven, we approach your throne of grace and humility because we recognize who you are and we recognize why we are seated here. We thank you heavenly father for the Sabbath that you hallowed and blessed that we may come forth and celebrate this particular day. Celebrate it in rest. Celebrate as we worship you and as we praise you. We want to honor and glorify your name. We thank you for the session that we had in the morning and we thank you for the session that we are going into now and the sessions that will come thereafter. We want to invite the presence of the Holy Spirit to be able to guide us, to teach us, to illuminate the truth that you want us to understand. Help us heavenly father as we go through this session to not only enjoy the music, to not only enjoy the salmon but also to open our heart that the Holy Spirit may minister to us. May those who have not known you be drawn closer to you because of this worship for this is my prayer in Jesus' name. I take this opportunity to welcome Nairobi East young Adalsquire who will give us two items. Thank you. Good afternoon church. Happy Sabbath. Yes, what do you say to the Nairobi East young Adals? Amen. Thank you. Thank you very much Nairobi East youth for those items of music. So now we want to move into the next session of this afternoon's program and once more I'm delighted that we are going to listen to our guest speaker Pastor John Macharia who spoke to us this morning. So he will conduct a seminar on Sabbath school and please as you listen to Pastor Macharia please make notes or keep your questions because we will have an interactive session at the end of this presentation where we can ask questions where we can give feedback and learn from him. As he said, as he told us he is a retired pastor but he is far from tired at least what I have learned from him in the few hours we've been together he has a vast amount of knowledge and wisdom that we can tap into and we urge all of us then to take advantage and tap into Pastor Macharia's knowledge and wisdom while he is with us here today. May I request that we pray as we asha in the speaker our heavenly father, Lord God Almighty it's yet another opportunity that you have given us this Sabbath to come together Pastor Macharia your servant speak to us and to learn from you not even as we go into this afternoon session into the seminar into this sharing experience we pray for the guidance of your Holy Spirit that you may lead us throughout the discussion and that father we may not come out of it the same way that we went in we put your servant Pastor Macharia into your hands that you may steer him through this session even as he leads the church it's our humble prayer that we are making and requesting in the dear name of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ Amen Pastor Thank you very much Eoda for the welcome here is the patience of the word you don't know that statement the patience of the saints these are the people who can be patient to wait until the Sabbath is over we were so many we were packed but now I can see we are this many full and so I want to thank you for accepting to be here this afternoon as we look at some of the things that they would want to discuss at this time when I was telling you about what I do in my retirement I forgot two important things that I am doing so let me tell you those ones then I will do a quick recap of what I will share this morning and then I will do a short seminar on Sabbath school and then we will call it a Sabbath so the other thing I do is I do mentor I do mentor young people I do mentor young people especially when they get to the level of transitioning from being boys some communities do that from being boys to becoming men there is a transition there those people who come from where I was socialized I did not choose to be born where I was born I didn't have a choice if I was born somewhere else I would be like those people if I was taken as a small child and put in a different set of people I would be socialized to be like those ones so this idea of where you were grown it should not happen because I didn't have a choice I just found myself born in Moranga County that's it I wish I had a choice I could be somewhere else but I didn't so these issues of fighting of where you were socialized where you were born those issues are very primitive they are very primitive they should not feature anywhere among us God's children those are things that are very primitive we should not fight because I was not born where you were born I was not socialized where you were socialized there should be no war because of that so I'm saying that remember one of the conducts of the heirs of the kingdom was let brotherly love do what let brother love continue meaning it should have started and it should continue until Jesus comes so I do mentor young boys and girls we have a team of senior people people who love young people and we do mentor those young people so just in case you would want to take your child somewhere out of the two almost two months that they are going to have the long vacation November, the whole of November and December and even into January we are going to be into January about a week or into January so it's about two over two months when you have these children around there so if you want to give them a treat where they can come and get some information put in their heads do that kind of ministry at the wildlife training center next to bombers I do run a program there so for those boys who need to have that that transition you can bring them to me on on the Sunday of fifth fifth of November after KCP that Sunday they will come then we prepare them then Monday morning doctors will do their minor operation they do their minor operation and then I will have them for two weeks with a team of counselors giving them value putting them information in their mind when they are not jumping all over that time they are tamed they are tamed they are just there they cannot run all over they are there that's a very good time they listen to these things they listen that keep them for a long time to bring them up to fifth to nineteenth the boys will be there now for those boys let me call them men those who had gone before but they missed the mentorship component they can join us on the eighth then we continue up to nineteenth after nineteenth the boys will go home the girls can come and then we will have the girls for four days just giving them telling them the issues as you see now I have become a babu and my wife there is a shio sho so we can tell them exactly things that you cannot tell them as a parent you are shy, kido go you don't know even what to tell them but we will tell them in Mambo naminahi if you want to eat bullies this is what it means kinaaga nini kinaaga nini kinaaga uberga we can tell them because we have your age here to allow we say Mambo careless we can be careless but for you you are very being cautious you are very careful we are not as careful so bring the girls on the nineteenth we will have them up to twenty third then you can take them wherever else so please do that I will leave the poster could be with the children's department leader I will leave the poster online or if you want it I can give you my number I can give it the poster to you please let's do something about these children it is kumedoka kumiharibika kumedoka kama mojiyo luga kumedoka kumiharibika kumiharibika kumiharibika so take time and do what you can to help that child do what you can and leave God to do the rest so that is something I am doing and if you care I can give you my number you can continue the conversation zero seven two two is my number just in case you want to talk to me about what I am saying zero seven two two 7, 6, 9, 3, 9, 7. That's my number. You can call a pastor, you can write on WhatsApp, whatever. Let's keep the discussion going even after this presentation. So that's something I do and I love doing that. I have done it for 17 years. I found one young man here. You remember the young man who stopped me here. He has beard all over. And they were the first ones when this idea came to my mind. They were the first ones, 2007. That's the first team. Now he's a big guy. I don't know whether he's around. He's now an engineer. He's telling me he's an engineer. I'm so happy. And he's standing. He's in church. Standing in his full mind because of what we do there. So please do that for me and we shall talk. You want me to repeat that again? 0722, 0722, 7, 6, 9, 3, 9, 7. Let's keep the discussion going. I could be of help to your children. And then the last one is when we go to our retirement, we are going to think a central church for services. But then we say no, no, no. We don't want to go very far. We have become old. Why don't we start a sabah school right where we are? So 100 meters from our home, we have started a sabah school. Amen? And we are meeting at a hall. Shell petrosation has a hall. We have rented that hall. But the good news is when God saw that you are really interested in putting a church there, we have found land. We have found land 2.3 acres. Can you imagine? 2.3 acres between Brabant school and M-Pesa foundation. Those people who know that route, we have found a piece of land there. And we are purchasing that land. Amen? I thought you would say a big amen. We want to put an Adventist community center there. A church, a school, could be a clinic, but for the old people we want to put a day care for the elderly people. Serious Adventist community center. So we are buying that land. We have started, we have put the deposit, the huge amount but we believe in God who is bigger than all the challenges. So we call it Goigwa. Those people who come from Dika, Goigwa. So there you are when you hear me ask, Hey guys come, come help me. Come help me. You bring those dollars and those shillings to know your land, amen? To know your land. So thank you very much. Now I would want to say something about the departments that we have in our church. You know our church has departments. Our church has departments. Sorry. Alright. Young man, come give me the password here. I want to connect something. The password for the... You have a wife right here? You should, I think this is a big church. You can connect me to your wife. My bandos is in Asia. Alright. Can you put it for me? So I want to take a short time to share something about the departments we have in the Seventh Day Advent Church that are supposed to help us move the church. You see the church is a huge thing. And it's very difficult to move the church when it's that big. So what the church did in 1901, they reorganized the church and they put departments, various departments, so that these departments can move the church. That's why we have departments in the church. And I'm sure you know all of them, or most of them. Can you tell me the any department in the church that starts with letter A? Anybody? I'm now in the class. This is not someone now, it's a class. Do you know any department in the Seventh Day Advent Church that starts with letter A? Yes? Amo. Adventist man organization. Okay, very good. Another one with letter A? Starting with letter A. Okay. Have you had something called ADRA? Have you had something called ADRA? Adventist Development Relief Agency. That's another one with A. Another one with A and C. I'm now giving you Mwakenya. A and C. A and C. A, C, M. What anyone is here? Which is that one? ACM? I am. Niniwatu, are you in this church? Yes, my sister. Very good. Adventist Plains Ministries. Very good. Aha. Can you tell me another department? Another department in the church. That's the church. Even the one we are discussing today is here. Which one is this? Mwakenya. What do you call this one here? We call this one Saba school. That's another department. Another one which puts the ladies together. The ladies together. Adventist Women Ministries. Another one that puts the youth together. Adventist Youth. Another one that puts all the children together. Children Ministries. Another one that helps us to get involved personally into evangelism. What do you call that department? I have said personally. So what do you call it? What do you call it? Personal Ministries. Another one. AMR is another one. Adventist Word. Muslims Relations. The church created that department so that we can relate well with the Muslims. They are our brothers. We come from the same heritage. Abraham is our father. You remember? Both for Muslims and Christians. Abraham is our father. So we share that. We use that one to spring from there and discuss other things with them. So Adventist Muslims is another one. Chaplain Ministries for Mesema. Adventist Mission. That's the one we are talking now. Trying to get everybody together. We have what we call this one. And I'm happy in this church. You people in Mesema 01. Your church is 01. You have this ministry. What do you call this ministry? This ministry that our sister is helping us here. What? It's not disability anymore. We don't call it disability. No, there's nobody disabled here. We call it Adventist possibility word. Ministries. It's possible. Can you do what they are doing? Can you do what they do? Can you do what they do? You can't. So we are not calling it disability. No, no, no, no. Possibility Ministries. Thank you for the time. They changed that. It was stigmatizing people. It's Adventist possibility word. Ministries. Children Ministries. We have said that one. Another one. And here I want to thank God. I don't know what to say for corona. But corona brought a whole shift of how we used to do church. And our young people got so involved. You can see young people here. Thank you, my young people here. My daughter here. Can see you, you know, quick getting us together. What do you call this department? Communication department. Communication and public relations department. Keeping us together. You know, these gadgets and all this. And thank you very much for helping us. I don't know corona. During corona we was there. We not know what to do. We were stranded. But you came in handy. Brought the internet and all this. And we were able to continue serving. We were able to continue with our services even during those very difficult times. Another very important one. A new people again. You are here. What is across here? School education, right? Education. I hope you people are making use of these schools here. These schools here. Giving your children a solid advantage education or background. Very important. Please do it. Those that are bringing up young people, those people who are of children that you are bringing up, please I would ask you and plead with you. Please take your children to an Adventist school. They will be given a foundation that you will never regret in the coming days. My wife and I gave our children Adventist education. All of them, four of children. Three boys, one girl. We took them some through here when I was pastoring here. Our two boys were schooling here. Our two last bonds. The others were in Kaurura and all that. I can tell you, yes, challenges may come in their lives but they have a turning point. They have a reference point and they are back to change. They may wonder, wonder kid over maybe but the gravity, the gravitational pull because of what they were given when they were growing up as Adventist learners. They are in church. In fact, our first bond is an order of the church. Amen? It's a church order. When you told me it was an order, what? They have chosen you as an order. Well, because I knew the challenges you had gone through. You mean now you are an order of a church? Those members trusted you this much to give you an order office? Thank you. I remember when he got that position about four years now he never used to wear suits. He never liked wearing suits. T-shirt, you know. So I told him, now you cannot be an order in a church and you go before the congregation in a t-shirt. Wambia ni haji matangazo yaleo. In a t-shirt, he said, ita wak, ita wakiyo. Ita wak, so I told him go somewhere where I buy my suits go that shop tell that lady there in that shop to give you a suit of your choice. I'm starting you off to start wearing suits because it will not be coming here in front in a t-shirt. So I bought him the first suit because I was going to induct him into being an order. And he's doing very well. I think Suni may be the first order of that church. The way he's moving I will not be surprised that he's the first order of that church. So what I'm saying this here, education here put your children here if you don't like anything about our school come with your expertise let's correct to cure pamoja. Don't keep talking when you're out there and when you're not doing that you have taken your child to a Roman Catholic school because it looks good it looks good it is not for you it looks good but it was it was it was it was it was it was it was it is not good it was it was Something that came it it looked let me ask you do you think you don't run But if you do you think you're only benefiting No na uleza kama tisha maesema, where is torezako? In maisha, tisha maesema in the name of the father and the son, and the holy na u nasema, no, no, no, we don't do that in our church, we put our hands together lakini wampare kawapi, wukon ni kwa nambiwa ibo wukon ni kwa nambiwa ibo let me tell you, you are going to lose that battle wume proteza, you have lost it so this department of education was started by the church to make sure that our young people our teenagers, our young children are nurtured and given an advantage philosophy of education so that they can become advantage after us so please ii shula ii and new people should even have bought a big land somewhere and boot up a beautiful academy for high school you should have done that ii don't know where your children go to school ii know where they go let me not say i don't ii know where they go to school ii know and if you are to tell me, if I was to stay here in Muniambi e Kabisa what you have gone through some of you are crying some of you are crying so education is another department, family ministers department family ministers department is another one which is trying to bring the families together the devil is breaking the family the devil is working on making sure the family does not work that's why he has introduced all manner of things all manner of evil in the family our church still stands to say a family is composed of three what do you call the family what do you call that the nuclear family the nuclear family according to us according to the bible is where there is a husband and wife husband and wife and should the Lord bless them and give them more children that's what we call what do you call that family what did I call it again oh nuclear the nuclear family we stand by that when everybody is saying all crazy things some james and john can make a family we are saying no that is an abomination when two ladies Ann and Jane think they want to stay together that is another abomination that's what we are saying that's why we have a department called family ministry so that it can keep the families together another one held ministries hey and this one held ministries to tell us how to eat don't eat anything you find anywhere matura matumbu all these things that are eaten at night most of these things are eaten at night in the evening when the sun is going down that's when they start funding the maka hapo matura matumbu yot and mm somebody say they always start with m matumbu matura maholy those kind of thing that's not for us that's not for us ours is a danio milk the danio diet hallelujah danio diet that made him look 10 times better hallelujah vegetables and water hallelujah vegetables and water they will make you better sharper, smarter hallelujah don't wear too much of your weight what for? held ministries then we are talking about personal ministries we have said that one public affairs and religious liberty is another department then we come to publishing department talking about books and magazines and all that sabah school that's where we are now sabah school is there spread of prophecy is another department stewardship another department trans services plant giving this one I am also struggling with this one trans services starting planning your death your exit how are you going to exit don't leave your wealth in a disarray umi ondoka umi hacha fujokwa familiar yako you never said anything about anything so you have left umi hacha shita nobody knows what is where some even your wives don't know where your things are leave it on your children they will keep on umi hacha in disarray naidunia is so bad is so bad you can die anytime this last Friday wasn't Friday yes this last no when was this we went to bury it was on Thursday Thursday yes we went to bury a doctor from our home in Muranga at the peak of his career 51 years the peak of his career waking up one morning got a heart attack and dead no history of his disease there was no it was just one line that he woke up in the morning got attack rushed to mater hospital and died it was such a solemn time in our village Ukomuranga so I am struggling with this one with my wife also I think we need to do this my wife now we have even gone a little far into the age we should do this to organize yourself say maikitu in the event I am not around this one is for this one this one is for this one this so much can go to the church don't just give everybody to your children everything to your children leave something for God say maiki plot he can be sold to bless the church do it in writing and we are not short of lawyers we are not short of people who can help us come up with admisable admisable wearers do you call that one lawyers admisable please do that and you can keep reviewing it revising it so we are saying let's learn to organize ourselves when we are still alive women may say to the same and all that saasa let me say something now a little bit about sabah school sabah school this sabah school thing what is it why was it started sabah school why was it started in asema sabah school is the primary religious education system of the seventh day advances church it is the primary religious education system of the seventh day advances church and it has four main purposes it has four main purposes one of them it is to study the scriptures we have the lessons that we study the scriptures using the adult Bible study guides we have the ones for youth, college and all this primary for the small children and all this all this material is supposed to help us study the Bible we study the Bible this book this is a book that God gave he inspired the writers he put his spirit in the writers and the writers wrote using human languages Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New Testament and then from those two languages they have done what we call translations into other languages every community now has the Bible in their own language muma ma lel for the community muma ma lel is it ma lel kere kaniro kere akiru na kere agekuru all these dialects this is the book so we need to study this book and that is one of the purposes of sabah school ...to give us an opportunity to study in a structured manner ...in a structured manner to study the word of God ...in a structured manner ...number one ...number two, the other reason for sub-school is for fellowship ...fellowship ...where people can meet the 11 of you, the 12 of you ...you can sit there, get to know each other ...get to understand during the week ...what has this person gone through in the week ...how can we come around and pray with him and her ...you see, it's not just about the Bible ...studying the Bible too much information ...but not touching the heart ...fellowship is meant to bring people together ...before you get into the Bible study ...have a time, talk a minute each ...how was your week? ...oh, wiki yang wi rikuaivi ...you know, talk about it there ...what is going on in your family? ...what about your work? ...talk about these issues ...open up! ...open up! ...don't die with your issues ...don't die like na kufa ki officer ...especial wana umetu na kufa ki officer ...you don't say anything about anything ...you na nyamada tu uko ...people can see there is a problem but you cannot share ...you are so... ...unakufa ki umuana ...na hata ki umuana ni kifu tu ...so why would you want to die? ...share some of these burdens ...talk them out with your colleagues ...at the sabah school ...learn to trust one another ...nasisi yuki skia mambayango ...be confidentio ...be confidentio pana ungea mambayango ...urabiya pasta rikuaivi kuhusu ...famili aiaa ke yu unamdom ...unakua na foot and mouth disease ...what we share in that class ...should remain there ...okay ...what I... ...I open my... ...I become... ...I become... ...I become open ...nasimama mambayango ...don't... ...toa manana yunguapa kupeleka ...let's learn to be confident there ...tuna kapa moja tunaliriana aponyabani ...ga ki... ...you pray together ...you fellowship together there ...is very important ...people are going to ...to the graves earlier than their time ...because of not sharing ...what is going burdening them in their hearts ...so subah school is meant for fellowship ...where you talk together ...you cry together ...you share your burdens together ...it can even proceed to ...swallowship ...somebody has said ...it can also proceed to swallowship ...and I'm very happy about you in central church ...you have swallowship ...I've just had a lot of swallowy ...swallowship ...swallowship is where you bring your food together ...eat together ...when you're eating together ...and I thank God for even KBC ...for coming so early ...it has given you from 11 ...I think 1130 to now ...I think a quarter to two ...all the time ...it's time for fellowship ...it's time for swallowship ...swallowship ...you know what I mean by swallowship ...I'm talking about fellowship and swallowship ...you swallow something together ...it is very good when you are doing that ...at the subah school ...subah school does that ...and then community outreach ...community outreach ...that's why today we extended ...an invitation to our friends ...who are not regular ...members of our church ...we invited them ...come people come ...remember what we said ...the spirit and the bride are saying ...come ...and he who hears ...let him also say what ...come ...so it's the moment to bring people from the community ...into the church ...can I see those that are still in the house ...those who are invited to be ...in this church today ...can I see those that are still in the house ...those that were invited to come ...and share ...live around the choir members ...but those people that were invited ...you know from could be their potential ...remember what I said in the morning ...don't call anybody anan what ...did you get that in the morning ...don't call anybody anan what ...adventist ...what are they ...potential adventist ...don't call them none ...when you call them none is like you are putting them there ...they are potential adventist ...so ...the other purpose of ...subah school is to have what ...community outreach ...calling people to come into the church ...and the last one ...the fourth one is to know that ...this church exists ...not in a small cocoon ...a small ka village there ...this church is a world ...is a world church ...is a world wide church ...so we talk about world mission emphasis ...we hear stories from ...South Asia ...from wherever ...this is about the world ...this world is God's world ...we are not just doing our thing here ...the central church ...no no no ...this is bigger than ...this church is bigger than central church ...is bigger than Kenya ...is bigger ...is a world wide movement ...so we need to know what's going on ...in other areas ...in other areas of this world ...those are the four reasons ...the four purposes of ...subah school ...what did I say number one ...number one ...bible study ...right? ...bible study ...number two ...fellowship ...and I've also added what's over there ...swallowship ...let's swallow together ...there is power ...as you swallow together ...number three ...community what? ...community ...emphasis ...community purpose ...community what are we calling it? ...community ...outreach ...community ...outreach ...and then number four ...world emphasis ...world mission emphasis ...because this church is big ...this God's church covering the whole globe ...so we need to know what's going on ...in other parts of the world ...what is going on ...that's when we read the mission emphasis ...somebody tells us a story about a country there ...something happening there ...that's how we come together in subah school ...so those are the four purposes ...for subah school ...and I thank you very much ...as I told you this morning ...the subah school is also the heart ...the heart of the church ...that's where things are pumping ...in the subah school ...let me share something here ...okay ...about subah school ...yes ...I've talked about ...alright ...subah school it's saying here ...that ...now by the way ...subah school is not a location ...is not a location ...subah school is a segment of time ...from the time we come in the morning ...as we start the service in the morning ...we start with a song ...a prayer, introduction and all that ...then we have mission emphasis ...then we share ourselves into classes ...that is the time we call subah school ...it's a school ...it's a school ...it is not a space ...it's not a location ...a segment on subah of time ...that's what we call subah school ...it is a function of the church ...usually comprising a song ...service ...bible study lesson and all that ...it is usually held before the church service ...that you know ...on Saturday morning ...then it's going on to say here ...that ...there are teachers ...when you hear at school ...kuna musamiati ...musamiati wa shule ...when you hear at school ...there are vocabularies you expect to hear ...when there is a school ...what is also there ...there are teachers ...what else is there ...books ...what else is there ...preparation ...preparation is there ...teacher must prepare ...don't come here fumbling and saying things that ...you never thought before ...teacher must prepare ...so these things is what we call ...a subah school ...and then ...we also put people in their ages ...we have ages ...children of this age ...this age ...young people ...they are in classes ...you don't ramp all the people together ...in a class ...you divide them according to their ages ...and their experiences ...so teachers are there ...study guide books are there ...the Bible is there ...all these materials are there ...now let me talk about ...as I want to wind it up ...let me talk about the leaders in the subah school ...the leaders in the subah school ...very important people ...very important people to lead in the subah school ...leaders on all levels ...they must lead by example ...if you are a subah school teacher ...you must lead by example ...you cannot lead from behind ...you must lead from the front ...by example We are saying that the sabah school is the heart of the church. So we must take good care of the heart. Because anything happening to your heart, what will happen to the rest of the body? Like now my friend, I am so sorry about that young doctor. The heart stopped. So what happened to the rest of the organs? Could the legs continue functioning when the heart stopped? No, the hands could not do anything. All other parts of the body just collapsed when the heart failed. So when the sabah school has failed, then I can tell you, it doesn't matter how much the big samosas that are going to be here, it will not work. So what we are saying, we must, and thank you Miss Mwachi for this, sabah school please we must wake up. We must wake up and come to church early. So that we start with the sabah school. It is the heart of the church. It is pumping everything else, it is being pumped from the sabah school. You see, because of the schools we have taken our children, they only know that church is for one hour. The school churches, the schools that belong to other churches, they go to service for one hour in a mass. Have you had about them in God mass? Have you had about some God mass? One hour or two at most? That's all. That's where we have taken our children to study. And they have adopted those tabiyaiso. So when they come to church, two hours, three hours in church, what are you doing in church? See, church in one hour. See, we do our things. What are you telling us to be in church the whole day? Ah, you people are crazy. That's why people are not coming to sabah school. Miss Mwachi. That's why people are not coming to sabah school. Because to them, the only time the diviner, that one, if they come to church and do that, oh, they go home and say, yes, I was in church. Let me tell you, you are dying. That is a sure death. We must be in church from sabah school in the morning to start off the worship in the morning so that we can study the Bible, we can have fellowship, we can strategize on the community service outreach, and we can also hear what is happening in the world church. We must be there if you are going to be alive. Otherwise, if you are not there, then we are in trouble. So teachers, please, you must set an example. People will follow better when they see their leader set the example. So one, you must set an example as a leader of a sabah school. Set an example. Christ had no need for baptism or foot washing. He was sinless. Yet he set as an example. So you must set an example as a leader. Number two, punctuality. I'm now talking about, we can talk about these ten qualities of a leader. One example. Number two, punctuality. Be punctual. I have gone to a class somewhere and you see the students are there. They are waiting for the teacher. Mwari muwajafika. What? The teacher has not come to class? And the learners are waiting? That is not right. So punctuality. You must be punctual. You must be on time. We must set the pace. We must set the pace to be there on time. Number three, creativity. As a teacher, be creative. Don't do the same thing. The same thing, expecting different results. Somebody has said that one of the definitions of being nuts is when you are doing the same thing over and over and expecting what? Different results. It can't work. So as a school leader, as a teacher you must be creative. You must be creative. Number four, delegation. Delegation. You need to know how to delegate. Don't be everything. Delegate. Give people responsibility. Delegate some of the activities to some other people. Delegate. No one can do everything. No one can do everything. You can delegate but you also keep you keep in charge but you have delegated. So delegation is important. Number four. Number five, communication. Listening is important for leaders. As a leader, listen to what people are saying. They could have some important information that could help your class. Listen. Communication is two way. You talk, you listen. Communication is very important. Number six, organization. You need to be organized. When you come and you seem disorganized. You don't know where the books are. You are disorganized. You need to be organized. When you come with your material together you place it there. You look organized. So organization is very important. Even when the resources are few we must never be disorganized. Make sure that you are organized. Number seven, motivation. As a leader, motivate. Motivate the class. Motivate the learners. Motivate them. Motivate them. Have meetings with your with your leaders. Like now the leader of the suba school. Have meetings with your staff. Meet them. Talk to them. Express your joy. Motivate them. Commend them for what they are doing good. Commend them and all that. Number eight, evaluation. You need to evaluate how is our teachers doing it. Like now Miss Mwachi you are the leader of the whole thing. How are they doing? Make an evaluation. We want to know what's happening in the youth class. Just go there one time. You just sit there. Get to hear what is going on there. Do some evaluation. And then when you are doing these things be humble. Humility for a leader is very important. This idea of them Oh sorry. I was going to do my dam ward. What do you call this thing? Dam ward. What do you call this? What do you call this dam? Heating your That one has no space in the church. Humility. You are talking to people humbly. Jesus Christ who is God and the king of the universe was able to go down and even wash his disciples' feet. What a humility. What humility is that? So we need to be humble as leaders and it's very important. And then number ten. Number ten the last one. These are the qualities of a good leader in service school is responsibility. You know that you need to be responsible. For what is happening in your department remember you are responsible. Don't start shifting the blame to somebody else. The back stops with the what? Hey the back stops with the leader. So don't shift the blame. Remember you must be responsible. The back stops with you. So you must know what's going on. So that anybody asking a question you are able to answer or consult to give an answer. But don't say ah mimi sijuwi mimi sijuwi and departmenti ako. Mimi sijuwi wadifanya wadji sijuwi nawe nikiongozi no no no no no no no. You are responsible. So you may not have all the answers but you can consult so that you give an answer. Don't say sijuwi. You must be responsible. So those are the ten points that I found very important as leaders of the supper school and very important. Example, punctuality, creativity, delegation, communication, organization, motivation ah it's like all of them shon shon shon at the end. Evaluation, motivation, organization, communication, delegation, so many have shon shon shon. And then the last one here humility and responsibility. So good people. I can see my time is up. I said I would spare a few moments so that you can have a feedback. You can feed me back and if there is something that you want me to mention a little more that I may not have said. You are going to have a few moments about how many minutes you are going to have a few moments about how many minutes about ten minutes about ten minutes ten to fifteen minutes if you have something you want to observe and this time I will open it I will open it up to my presentation if there is something you may want to know something I said could be I passed you very quickly you have about ten to fifteen minutes which you can feed back you can feed me back. So thank you very much and happy to share the time I have is that one so if you have something you want to say you can notice the hand that may be wanting to respond or say something about my two presentations the one in the morning someone and now this seminar that I have quickly taken you through. Thank you very much and Santeni Saad. Happy so about church who has been blessed like me Thank you very much Pasta you can see the hands for yourself and it's an opportunity now to ask questions. Anybody I saw a hand right up please there's one question there any other hand a second one here a third one one last one we'll take them in threes. Any third one? Okay so we will start please stand so we bring you the mic then you ask your question then we come to our sabbat school teacher here. Please stand. Happy sabbat Happy day If you can come close here I'm becoming a babu Our pastor was struggling about sabbat school yesterday he mentioned about the sabbat school now my question is this Face me so they can face me so I can listen to you My question is this you are a sabbat school you keep the sabbat okay somebody is keeping the sabbat he love adventies he love anything that come from adventies that means the faith is so strong and then he have a character this character is not changing on him okay he love to steal what a wine okay there is a wine in adventies there and then you don't want to tell pastor you don't want to talk with members only the angel with the holy father knows this man is stealing wine in adventies church he love the teaching of the sabbat school he love pastor when pastor left the office and then he will make sure he steal what he stealing the big wine he choosing the big one he want to choose what the small one he is choosing big one always how will you help this such a pastor he love the sabbat well somehow I'm not getting it is it something with the metambo here we are talking about the sabbat school guests okay we are talking about the sabbat school and then a member of the adventies church he love the adventies church then he love the teachings okay then he have a character of stealing the wine always and then he can tell somebody mimi muna yuana penda kwee bawa in palendanya kanisa palendanya the adventies whether you give him advice he want subtract that advice he will still always but he love the adventies teachings okay how can you help such a person well well somebody got it I don't know why he was there many many please come here come close to me here let me get it from your mouth here but I'm trying to get it I'm not getting it very quickly come come here my son come close to babu here yes tell me what is the issue what is the concern yes from here I can now mama tuwa padyoneski but I'm trying to listen happy sabbat are you getting the question okay are you getting the question yes he love the teaching of the adventies church yes wine okay we have understood your question thank you very much so we can move to the to the next question I think faster then you will tackle both of them together first I thank you for a good message about the sour school clean it sour school is the earth of the church I have a problem we as teachers of the sour school before we go and teach our members we must come together as teachers we analyze the listen together we come in one court then we go and teach I want to ask you faster a teacher in a class has not attended the class lesson discussion here in the sabbat he come and start teaching what is the issue there okay thank you very much the two speakers have asked questions now coming to the first question I don't know this church wine do you have wine in the church here I know I was wondering what I know is that during Holy Communion we do what we call we make fresh juice we don't keep auto wine here like the other oh you started doing that could be I am talking 4 years later could be things have changed so could be is informing me things but what I know is that we don't keep wine here in the church we don't is that we don't keep wine here unless he is using wine as a symbol of something I don't think we have wine here but anyway that being aside is that anybody in the church who is stealing whatever is stealing okay anybody in the church that is stealing whether it is money whether it is picking some people's hard bags here that is not right that's not a member of the church that's a thief and we call him by that name he's a thief and he's a thief but he can repent and he can be saved by the blood of Jesus so his question was how can we help such a person how can we help such a person they probably have a challenge with wine whether they are stealing it or getting it from whichever sources and yet they come to serve bad school so a person like this needs some help and he's wondering how he can help such a person oh okay that one is okay no we come to church here to get help anybody who comes here the church has everybody Jesus said let the the tire the magugu and the and the gano grow together but there's a possibility of magugu changing to become a gano through the messages that they hear from the pulpit here through the fellowship they can enjoy in the sabah school the sabah school classes they can get changed and become all I would expect everybody who is in the church to eventually make it to heaven that is my desire and I'm sure every pastor as they stand up at the pulpit here the desire of every pastor of every minister of the gospel is to see that everyone who comes to church eventually to heaven that's the desire and so such a person need to be helped he also need to seek help you see the pastor may not know looking at you I see all good people I may not know I don't have the synometer I don't know I don't have the synometer to know who is singing I don't have that ability so I would expect everybody to come to church to also take it upon himself remember the first responsibility in my presentation I said the first responsibility you have is to do what the first responsibility is to accept Jesus Christ and get saved yourself number one before you can take the message to everybody else that's it so God is going to help such a person need to come up and own the challenge that is going through pastors the pastors could help you and get that kind of habit out of your way and not only stealing all manner of stealing is one issues that are there now coming to the question of my brother is that I remember when you were here when you were pastor in this church those days the pastors teachers would meet very early in the morning we used to meet very early in the morning all the pastors teachers so that they can go through the lesson pick the main points that must be shared in all the classes don't miss this one this is important so we used to do that I don't know whether it's still happening if it is not then people become lazy and they need to wake up people need to wake up and when you can meet and these days you can meet socially you can meet online you can meet online I understand you have some time please that time that you have set aside for meeting as teachers make sure you get there I know it is hard too many things but make it a point during that time that you meet what time is it that's the day 7 to 8 you need to keep that appointment 7 to 8 you are at home or wherever you are stop and engage so that when you come to lead your class those 12 people you share what you have shared you grow together not disjointedly disjointedly like that then the church is confused but when you have met as teachers mixed the ideas then you can go to your separate classes you are able to share what you have agreed and that will make the church grow in a certain direction so teachers madam is telling me here those days 7 to 8 just to remind you follow them follow up with them call them I have missed you what is happening sumbuha waatu bwana lakini nawewe why can't you drive yourself you want to be self motivated you can work without what what you write in your CV you can work without what don't give the sub-school leader trouble calling you motivate yourself be there remember your idea could be the idea that is required in that class so don't miss the class come share your ideas put your ideas together and then you grow the church together you grow the church together in a good way so thank you very much I think that the time we have anyone else one more before we close it any other one point extra these are good classes I am a good teacher if everybody has understood I salute you mawapasta wail is still here thank you I think they are okay so thank you very much again for your time let's meet as you bring your boys and girls for mentorship bring them if somebody who is having trouble with the issues of drugs bring them to me we make them go back to their lives so may God bless you central church 01 church 01 may God bless you as you keep growing and as you keep nurturing the many people who come to this church I wish you well thank you very much for giving me a chance to come over I am so so happy that I could come back home if it wasn't for what I am doing in Thika I brought my membership here but now I am doing so much there please allow me to be there amen allow me to be there so let me wish my prayer then I hand it over to the team okay Mary can you come and pray come and bless these people of God Mary my Mary come here and wish my prayer bless these young people most of them are our children a few seniors a few seniors I can see a few seniors but most of them are our children so come and pray for them and thank you very much for standing by my side all this time thank you praise God church amen we have been sitting for long I just request that we stand and then we pray together we pray good afternoon we praise you thank you God for whom you are thank you God for calling us to alumni church and we know it's not the right it's a privilege and because we are privileged just so much Lord we pray that you help us to share what we know with others we are all seeing us as we start God you know us individually you help us that we be doers of what we have had to do God that does just listen we listen and then we implement in our lives and then our lifestyle our talks will help other people to know you better as we wait for your return thank you God for center church we were here many years ago and thank you for those who are still holding to the faith and we pray that God bless us to be faithful to you from sabah school till evening so that we can reap what you put for us you prepare for us every sabah bless each member starting here and even for those who have not come back Lord we hope they are watching and they will also obey you thank you God prepare all of us for your second return oh God bless the young people here bless the children we start to ask and those others who worship here bless all the mothers the fathers and help us to wait for you as you come a second time thank you God for answering our prayer for we pray and trust in Jesus name amen thank you thank you very much before I exit the stage give me the sixies one did I hear oh two oh you good learners three three no before care compassion very good for care five confidence and six oh now you are good students thank you very much