Trinity Vineyard Church Nakuru

Our Narratives influence our lives and the impact we have on others around us. Really, this is God's story. His is the big story and we are all part of it. There are many other micronarratives that try to get our intention and therefore influence our lives. The only way to recalibrate our narratives is by having an encounter with the one whose story is the Big Story.

If we boldly step into community and open ourselves up to people, we will find ourselves in conflict. It is important in our journey of discipleship and becoming like Jesus that we both call people out and be called out. We all get a turn at being the offender and when we are made aware of it we cannot and should not ignore it. Jesus invites us to go make things right, and it is not business as usual until you have. Whether or not the offense is real or imagined. If a friend is hurt, it matters to God and it should matter to us too.

1 in 3 women is sexually assaulted, and so is 1 in 5 men. Most of whom are often under the age of 15 and sometimes even unaware of it. The church has to be a voice for those voiceless and a place where people who have experienced sexual assault find a place for healing and restoration of their sense of self-worth. BEcause they are who God says they are.

Pastor Edgar Interviews Kay and Zuena who both have journeyed through healing from sexual assault and are intentionally starting these conversations in our city of Nakuru

The bottom line is we will offend and hurt each other in community. Let us be bold enough to deal with it. However we feel, we must Honor each other. Honouring each other with the desire being reconciliation. No matter the outcome of the process of reconciliation, we have to choose to forgive those who have offended us just as we have been forgiven if we want to enjoy the freedom of our forgiveness and also free the ones in our lives

If you ask Jesus who he would like to have invited to dinner, his answer would be, YOU. Jesus is the true host. He often told stories of how the Kingdom of God is a like party that a King would host and invite all the people no one ever thought would be on any important guestlist.

You are invited to God's table and your name on the guest list is not a mistake or a typo. Jesus also hosted meals with his friends as meal times are a way of caring for people and sharing love and life. Meals are a great context for discipleship, healing and reconciliation.

God always leaves seeds of promise in our most broken places. Surprisingly, even when death snatches life, there is usually an explosion of life in that moment as people see the life and beauty that the person we have lost actually had without being blinded by focusing on their weaknesses and brokenness. What then would happen when Jesus the author of life and the one who is true life dies? Humanity and nature itself cannot deny Him. And even better is what would happen when death has tried all it could and lost and Jesus was raised to life again. The Holy Spirit, the power that raised Him from the dead, is poured out on all of us. Finally, we can have true life before death and forever live in the hope of resurrection. We can then see that in the darkest, ugliest, most broken places of our life God is doing some of His best work.

God has always used the most unlikely people. From Noah to Abraham. From David to Rahab. None of them had anything to offer God and were chosen to be part of God's story and as such only God gets the credit. You are not discounted either just because you think you have nothing to offer.

God Goodness is free and Boundless. He has no challenger, nothing can limit him and no one can contain Him. The invitation is to allow the Holy Spirit to make us aware of God's Goodness. To be able to see signs and evidence of God's goodness all around us like bread crumbs all over the place. Radiating with the Promise that because God is good, all things will rise again.

We have been called to be a God-centered community full of diversity bringing life to the city of Nakuru. In four years Trinity has committed to a radical welcome where people can find God and find friends and find holistic life. We have seen people find faith, people continue their journey with Jesus as others decided to try again after giving up on God. And many find community. People from different parts of the world have found a home here or a resting place as the move towards what God has called them. Many have found healing some physical, some emotional and many spiritual. Now one good step deserves another. There is more to this. We are committing to a life of generosity, and a radical welcome and that will mean increasing our capacity.