Go Africa – 🇰🇪 Kenya – Prison Ministry
July 10, 2026
We gathered at the Kubamba base on the campus of a university,
where we had an orientation.
Afterward, we had a meal and headed out for Prison Ministry.
Prison ministry.
I had visited prisons several times for various reasons,
but this was my first time visiting an African prison,
and my first time visiting one specifically for ministry.
The prison ministry ended joyfully.
We were able to spend much more time with the people there than I had expected.
The passion of all the team members and ministry workers.
The team members who created an even more amazing drama
than the skit we had seen the day before.
Jesus appearing there.
And the prisoners responding so passionately.
And among all of that,
there was one encounter that I remember.
A meeting with a man named John.
When we talked about Jesus,
he smiled widely and said,
“I love Him so much.”
He said that he loved Him so, so much.
The expression on his face remains so clear in my mind.
He had come to prison.
Who had shared the Gospel with him?
It made me think that sharing the Gospel is not simply about “preaching” the Gospel.
It is about introducing people to the One who loves us,
and helping them meet the One
whom they cannot help but fall in love with.
I think that is what a life of sharing the Gospel is.
Roah, who had continued to be worn out and go through cycles of her fever rising and falling,
stayed at the accommodation and rested with Sehee.
Even when we returned,
Roah still didn’t seem to have her usual energy.
We had used up all the medicine we had brought from Korea,
which we had planned to use for the two months,
and eventually, we wondered if she might need local medicine.
So we kept taking her to see the doctor at the pharmacy near our house,
getting medicine for her and continuing to have her seen.
The life of an evangelist,
the life of a father,
the life of a husband,
the life of a leader.
It was hard to properly carry even one of these roles.
But
sharing the Gospel,
doing something as Roah’s father,
living as a husband,
living as a leader—
none of it is something I can do on my own.
Lord,
I entrust it all to You.
The long flights,
the jet lag,
a new country and a new community,
adjusting to a new ministry.
And yet,
several nights when I couldn’t sleep properly.
Sehee, taking care of Roah
while also struggling with her own cough and cold.
And in the middle of all of that,
I continued going out to ministry,
helping the team understand things,
while I was also still adjusting myself.
Those had been the past several days.
I began sharing updates with the people in Korea
who were already praying so faithfully for us,
and asking them to keep praying.
Lord,
please help me
to be able to entrust it all to You.