 I invite Bishop Kalisto, who is the presiding Bishop of Thais in the Anthony industry, to address us. Welcome, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much. Andrew Palado's team has attempted to come in just before COVID woke up. And you are looking forward to them coming into the city, but then we hope to go and let them post a few things. But we're so glad that the Lord has made it possible for him to be here together with the team. And we're looking forward to these three days where we're expecting life to change. Because we strongly believe that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ transforms people. That it gives people hope in situations of hopelessness. So that's why we are getting into all these efforts, and not just to have a great time and entertainment. It's a life-transforming opportunity. And we are so glad that you, the media team, have come to help us. To pass the message to everyone out there, to be with us during this event at the University's gospel. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Let's appreciate it. At this point, before we get into the next part of the program, I'm going to invite Bishop Samuel Monai, who is the deputy presiding bishop at PEPA, to address us for just 30 minutes, sir. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Indeed, we are very excited to have Andrew and for this Love Nehru Festival. This is not a concert. This is a festival where the children, the youth, the old, everybody is invited to come and celebrate. Having come from a very hard and difficult time as Kenyans, a time has come that we can find a reason to celebrate. And I want to make an appeal. Come on. Let's come together at Nairobi University Club to celebrate Jesus as we see what the Lord has done in our life. Karibuni. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, the Palao Ministry has come to Kenya through Andrew Palao and Wendy Palao, and we're so honored to have you. It's a bit about them that you can say is that for more than 25 years they have been recorded sharing the gospel with millions all across the world. They are passionate, not just about being in the center, but about raising evangelists. I will allow them to speak to us because Kenya has been waiting. And maybe at this point you can do a quick, quick Kenyan welcome so they don't feel like you've got cold speaks, all right? So ladies and gentlemen, with a real warm Kenyan welcome, let's appreciate Andrew and Wendy Palao. Thank you, Andrew. Take it away. Thank you, Lynn. You never feel cold in Kenya. We always feel the warm welcome. Every time we've come, and thank you for welcoming us so warmly, it's a privilege for my wife, Wendy, and I to be here again. My daughter, Sadie, is here. She's 15. She's working in one of the medical eniglass clinics, and it's a real privilege. She's learning so much, and we're very proud of her, and we're happy to be back with you. What an honor to be invited to stand side by side with the spiritual leadership of the city, the church fathers, to think that every denominational group, thousands of congregations are coming together once again to lift high the name of Jesus. Just like I said in the video, I do repeat myself quite a bit because these are the foundations. We lift high the name of Jesus in His Word, there at the university grounds in unity, proclaim the good news that has transformed our lives as we should, and introduce many, many people to Jesus Christ. We're praying that God would go, He's going before us, we know, by His Holy Spirit. He calls people, and when He calls them, He says, come, follow me. So many people out there, they're hearing the voice of God, and then we stand to proclaim the gospel and call them further to say, come, we are sure that He will do for you what He has done for us, and we want to talk a little bit about that today. Thank you to the press corps for coming. I always want to say to you a little side moment for you. We honor you, and we thank God for you. Every great nation has a great press corps, and it's key to hope and freedom and fairness to the nation. So may God bless you and give you strength under the pressures that you face. It's a heavy responsibility, and you know, I personally, I sympathize with you. I've mentioned this before because I'm a news person too. Wendy and I are evangelists, and that means they're pro-claimers of the good news. So we got our news, you got your news. My news is kind of limited. It's everything in a way, because to me it's everything. It's the gospel. It's freedom. It's hopefulness. It's transformation. It's the promise of eternity. It's the promise of the Holy Spirit to give power that we don't have in it of ourselves. It's good news and it's big news, but you guys have to cover everything, all the news, the good and the bad, and it's important for the nation. And so I have a sort of a camaraderie with you, and we pray that you will continue in your work. Your work helps people to understand what is really happening in the nation so that they can make informed decisions. And this is so critical, as you know, for the nation. So I just want to acknowledge that and tell you, I feel you, okay? And I would also appeal to you. We have a vision together that we've talked about. One of the statements we've had for ourselves is, let all of Nairobi, let all of Kenya hear the voice of God and hear this good news in a way that they would have an opportunity to respond. So we have all the activities you've seen are for that purpose to draw the attention of those who might feel outside to say, no, it's for you. Come in and hear the gospel. We do all these things for the proclaiming of the good news, but if we're going to reach the whole of the nation, we need your help. Help us to get this news out. It's not about us, it's about Jesus Christ. So don't mention us as much as little as you can. Mention us. Mention Jesus Christ. That is our message that He went to the cross for the salvation of our souls. And that gift is offered to everyone. Even as you read this column, I hope they'll sense this good news coming to them. So God will use you even in that. So we need your help. And we have these goals. There's a verse, Jeremiah 29-7. We're like a foundational passage for us as we prepare together. And it says this, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I've taken you into exile. Pray for the city, because if it prospers, you too will prosper. And that's a word that went out many, many years ago, but it stands true for us as God's people today, the challenges before us. And we've all taken it seriously to say our responsibility to seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which God has taken us into exile here. And for them in particular and for us in the season, that's Nairobi. We pray for the peace of the city. We seek it. A lot of the things that you see happening is for that purpose, to seek the peace and prosperity. That's why there's so many service activities. And this is what the church does, day in and day out. And we honor the spiritual leaders of the city, the pastors, the bishops. They carry the heavy burden day in and day out. And they have provided services to help, the least and the loss and the marginalized day in and day out. Imagine Nairobi without the church of Jesus Christ in it, right? We've got issues, we've got problems, but just only imagine. Because though we are emphasizing the service in this time, that is an ongoing work of the church. We're just emphasizing it, highlighting it to the glory of God. So we seek the peace of prosperity as if it depends on us, right? That's why there's so much sacrificial service that goes out through the congregations and through God's people. We seek it like it depends on us. But good news, it doesn't depend on us alone, right? We also pray for the peace and prosperity because we know that we are fully reliant upon God for all these good things. So this passage is foundational to us and we proclaim the good news because we know peace and prosperity enters into the life of an individual when they encounter the living God and enter into a relationship through Jesus Christ. And that's what we've experienced and that is a message we want everyone to consider and receive that gift for yourself. So part of the activities, my wife Wendy is another evangelist at the Palau team, preaching the gospel through digital media to women. She leads our prayer ministries around the globe and she's leading the women's outreaches here. By the way, you should know people are praying all around the world in a very focused way right in this season for Nairobi, all our friends all across the world. So let me ask Wendy to share from her perspective and I'll come and bring a closing testimony and we'll carry on, okay? Sound like a plan? This is Wendy. Take it higher, baby. Hello, friends. We're so glad you're here and we're so glad you took the time to come to help us share the joy and enthusiasm that we have for your city and that we pray that you will help us spread the word that the festival is going to be awesome. I am born in Kingston, Jamaica. You know Jamaica? Yes. And I love being Kenya because it reminds me of Jamaica. I don't know but we, you know, personally on my heart, I have a heart for women and God has given me this burden for women because of my own story of grief and loss and disappointment. And I think the thing about that, my story is it translates women across the world have many of the same issues of disappointment or loss and grief and my heart and passion is to share that that does not have to define you as a woman. That you can be a woman of hope despite your story, despite your disappointment, despite your loss and that hope is found only one place in the lover of your soul, Jesus Christ. And I just have that burden to share with women that they can truly walk through life as women of hope, not weighed down by their story but lifted up by the love of Christ and that in turn makes you a powerful woman in this world. And so that is what I'd love to share and tonight we'll be having 500 women, women leaders of the nation where I'll be sharing my story and inviting them into the relationship with Jesus Christ. So will you continue to spread that message as Pastor said we are called to be people of hope in this world, right? And that is why we've come to Kenya because God has helped us and we love to share that. So thank you. We'll see you at the festival. That's my wife. Hallelujah. And her excellency will be there sharing her testimony with Wendy with the women tonight. So let's pray for them. We'll have business and civic leaders outreach on Thursday night where I'll share the gospel with one of the Supreme Court justices and there's so many followers of Jesus Christ. I think that's something you might see in the festival model. A lot of the efforts that you wonder why sports and why the heavy emphasis on music when we want young people in particular to understand and know that as a follower of Jesus Christ whatever gifts he's given you you can utilize them for his glory and you can share the good news with whether you're in business whether you're in the political realm an educator, a doctor even a crazy skateboarder will be fully sold out for Jesus Christ and use their gifts and experience the fullness of life what the Bible calls the abundant life. It's not a perfect life but it's a transformed life and we've experienced it in all these different realms and we want the whole world to know and this is one of our goals. We want to elevate unity and just to come together and stand together there's a power in that. If ever there was a time for the world to know and understand that all of these churches and congregations we stand together we have differences that are not unimportant but they don't keep us apart from the under the umbrella of being followers of Jesus Christ rescued by the blood of Jesus and the cross of Jesus Christ. If there was ever a time for the world to know that we love each other and that we are together in unity under the bonds of the Holy Spirit it is to date. We had that COVID interruption and we felt bad about it because we just wanted to be together as soon as the better, right? But we make our plans, the Bible says but the Lord directs our steps and he was directing our steps. In that season of COVID we had more time together in the crucible, in the heat nobody wanted COVID but God, what the enemy intends for evil God turns it for good. In that season it gave us time to grow together in love and understanding of each other we grew, we went further and deeper in relationship all the alliances and prayer and the efforts to come together were strengthened so that we could have even a better day today and in that season of COVID I would also mention around the world the foundations that we have all at one time rather we put our faith in these foundations that the world puts before us to say this is the way this is where you'll find strength this is where your stability will come from through some relationship through some social group through your education through a business, through finances you'll find stability there but those things are failing and they've revealed themselves as such in this season of COVID in such a way and coming out of it thank God that many people see you out there you're saying to yourself I put my trust in these things it has failed me miserably where can I turn now and the answer is Jesus Christ he will offer the desires of your heart your longing for these things you'll find that answer in Jesus Christ and it is an adventure and a joy to walk with Jesus Christ so he transformed my life I'm going to share this testimony everywhere I go in the prisons with the business leaders on the stage my message is the same you know I was born and raised in a Christian home but I'm ashamed to say for 27 years I rebelled against God I was a selfish self-centered punk kid and what I love to do was to party I'm so embarrassing but all the simple obvious things of this world alcohol and drugs and the relationships of that lifestyle I went that way for 27 years my parents were wonderful Christians my dad an evangelist and a faithful guy I had a great church just like these churches I didn't see a lot of hypocrisy there I was without excuse but I ran after all those things my father warned me the Bible says there's a way it looks right to a person right but in the end it leads to death it looked right to me I went for it and I experienced the promise in the word it leads to death death of relationship death of hope death of purpose and I experienced those things but God never gave up at the age of 27 my father invited me to a festival just like this one if you can't believe it it was in Kingston, Jamaica and where I lived it was freezing cold two feet of snow and I didn't want to go to the Christian festival you know I've been to a lot of Christian festivals before right that was not my idea of a holiday but I wanted to go to that festival because it was in Jamaica the beach the sun Bob Marley I know how to handle this Christian thing that was my expectation but when I went out there God in His mercy just like we're expecting He will do here in Nairobi by the thousands God was preparing my heart for that moment that I would hear the gospel and respond to ask Him to forgive me and guess what He did as He promises if you confess your sins I'm faithful and able to forgive your sins cleanse you from all and righteousness and He did it for me in that moment healed me of my addictions lifted the shame and guilt out of my life He gave me His Holy Spirit a new power forgiven by the cross of Jesus empowered by the Spirit with the great promise of heaven because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead now that's the good news put that out there that's what we want the whole world to know but it was the beginning of change I met my wife there at the festival so you see no promises for the singles however it worked for me but you know when I came to Jesus Christ one of the things He did for me He rescued me from 27 years of bad behavior and those patterns I thought my life was destroyed related to marriage and sexuality I thought I'll never be married God's way I've destroyed my life but God healed me and He restored me gave me a new sense of purity so that I could begin a marriage relationship and now 30 years almost later He's made me faithful to my wife and faithful to my children and this is the hope this is the power for transformation we want people to believe for in their very own lives miracles of reconciliation and healing come to Jesus Christ this is the message of the festival and we hope that everyone will come it is for you the pimps and the prostitutes and the drug dealers businessmen educators students old and young as Bishop was saying you're welcome please come it is for you don't think it's just the Christians gathering together to have a big celebration we are doing that and you are welcome please join us there at the university grounds you're a patient but I have a lot of enthusiasm for this and I pray you will feel that welcome and when the spirit says come you come I think you will never regret it Amen back to you man I would like to thank you many of you are from Pope TV and my in that too a question and a request and my question is more of your message to the leadership of this country to the young people and to the church and my request is this amazing generation needs nothing but the goodness of God so my request is but you are the one who prays for this Amen thank you good work brother you have a question good work we can take two and then we can come and answer very quickly my name is Ivan Shaiola person from us that like to say that I'm happy that I'm happy they are presenting me my church in the city right now I'm so so happy to Andrew Palavo the idea is all yours as a part and I would like to thank you for integrating all the churches together that shows that there's something one living God that's also amazing so I'd like your integration of music to I think across area we see Pope from Zambia and there's no a better way of reaching the youth and using music so how do you in turn for this music to bring the youth together and of course the gospel to reach our people well should I take that one I think it's a great one of the great evidences of this being unified is the music and the worship these are gifted ministers of music and their work is critical in the festival it draws in the spirit it welcomes the spirit it softens the heart of people and it's a part of preparation for the gospel message that we can't do without it it's a very important part of it and to see the young people rising up with their gifts is a beautiful thing we want to feature it good work thank you brother I like that just to make mention before we get the question one of the artists that's going to be minister is here because Moji Shwapapa is in the building and so I'm going to I don't know if we might and get to hear but there are questions at the back many of the that you said white can and bones and number two I mean you know that we've had a rough time estimation because it's the reasons why you said to join Kenyan people to work on the issue and maybe try to console them in the country why is it that we from this time we can't I'll turn to the bishop to answer this we came at their invitation and the timing is unbelievably beautiful I know the cost of food and the cost of living is skyrocketing and so the pressures are heavy on the nation but as I said praying through COVID together praying through peace for the elections and the season that's coming in after that we continue to pray with you for that but we are a tool in the hands of the spiritual leadership and maybe perhaps our chairman would have a word about that or some of the other bishops okay thank you very much why Kenya? because God loves Kenya amen you had and the timing is not something that we organized because you had as Benson was speaking that the invitation was for them to come even before COVID and when COVID hit we had to change the plans it so happens that we are out of COVID and consequently it was possible to organize at this time and it happens that it is a time when we are coming from what you have called a crisis but I think I said it is God loving us because he's the one who has organized that to be at that time so that the churches in Nairobi for example can model how although we come from different denominations we can come together and work together and hopefully the message out there will be if the churches can come together and work together why can't our leaders in other places also come together and work in the same way and the church is called to lead the way and to set an example and to be a model for everybody else to follow that's what I would say as far as why Kenya and the timing good job brother I am here we are from Southern Bank we are from the same or camp or school because it is a street and it is a street and we are from the same or camp and we are from the same or camp and we are from the same or camp and so on and for the spirit of the Confess, he is Confessing You. For the spirit of the Father, and the Son, and the Son, and the Son, and the Son. For the three days. Nam kham s'aputwa s'a nyua kenya nyu, nye kamum t'a sehdiya kenya. And t'a sehdiya kenya. And nam na gany. Thank you so much for the soaring band. Thank you. Thank you, Brother. Thank you. Thank you. S.K.M. by by by.