GRAVE ERRORS

BOOK/VIDEO LAUNCH:
On Thursday, 3rd December, 2009, at the Sarova Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, World Relief Kenya will be launching 2 manuals and a video, namely:
1. Seek Peace: Enhancing Peace Building in Church and Community.
2. He Owns, I Manage: A Stewardship Manual
3. Grave Errors: Stories from the Post Elections Violence

More about......
Seek Peace
Catherine Morris
“A great deal of human suffering is linked to violent conflicts, political instability, or unjust policies and practices. Short-term humanitarian relief and crisis intervention, while important, are not enough in conflicted or post-conflict societies. There is increasing awareness of the need for post-conflict reconciliation, development of capacity for conflict resolution, and the building of sustainable peace.”
Seek Peace is a joint publication of World Relief and the Hope for Kenya Forum that currently brings together eight Christian agencies (World Relief, World Vision, Africa Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries-ALARM, Change Agents for Peace International -CAPI, Campus Crusade for Christ-Life Ministry, FECCLAHA, ICM and Mennonite Central Committee-MCC).

When the Church in Kenya was deeply wounded following the post-election crisis in the country that saw many people lose their lives, churches burnt and property destroyed, World Relief Kenya and other Christian agencies came together and formed Hope for Kenya Forum as a stop-gap measure that would serve as a channel through which these agencies would walk with the Church and support her in facilitating healing and reconciliation in the country.

After hosting many debriefing meetings across the country with many church and community leaders, requests came from church leaders challenging the Forum to provide a tool that can be used to teach Peace at the local Church and Community levels. Seek Peace is that tool.




2. He Owns, I Manage,

“Transparency and accountability” have become catchwords in our society today though few actually take them seriously or put them into practice. Yet these are at the core of God’s expectation of every leader charged with any responsibility. Here is study that provides an excellent guide to practical stewardship in every sphere of life. I recommend it to every leader serious about stewardship.”
Bishop David Oginde

This is a publication commissioned and written by representatives of some 22 churches in Nairobi, facilitated by World Relief Kenya. The publication is meant to be a tool for study by both individuals and small groups, especially, but not exclusively, in the local church context. We manage so much in terms of personal, natural and public resources but often with a hazy view regarding the true owner. Whatever view we hold regarding the ownership of the resources shapes our attitude to the management of the same.


The 22 churches involved are:

NPC Central, NPC Woodley, NPC BuruBuru, AIC Milimani, AIC Ngong Road, All Saints Anglican Cathedral, St Mark’s Anglican Church Westlands, AGC Good Shepherd, PCEA Nairobi West, PCEA Loresho, Nairobi Chapel, Mavuno Chapel, Mamlaka Hill Chapel, Nairobi Baptist Chuch, Parklands Baptist Church, Karen Community Church, Friends’ Church Ngong Road, Karura Community Chapel, Lavington United Church, Deliverance Church, Langata, Green Pastures Tabernacle, and the Evangelical Free Church Fullerton.

3. Grave Errors: "My husband was a tailor,...he left the house and headed to the city to buy materials for tailoring. He and his friends were riding on a pick up when people appeared from the bush and hacked them to death...he's body was burnt beyond recognition and only half of it was found and buried in the forest. We exhumed his body when the violence cooled down and we buried him here...."

This is a documentary on post election violence produced by World Relief and sponsored by Cornerstone church in USA. The documentary is on testimonies from victims of the Kenya’s post election violence with perspectives from experts in the field of peace. The video aims at sensitizing communities on the dangers of negative ethnicity and to act as a preventive tool for future conflicts.

MAY THE LORD HEAL KENYA!!