Before my mom conceived me, an angel visited her and told her that she would bear a child that year and that child would be used by God to do His work and reach children in Kenya. Though my mother was in her late 40’s and beyond her childbearing years, she had faith and believed the angel and indeed gave birth to a baby girl, Beatrice.
As I got older, my mother told me about the angel’s visit before my birth and I started to seek God through prayer and fasting in preparation for the good work that he was to send. I was the youngest of seven children and we faced many challenges living in a rural Kenyan village with very little food or money. We faced these “battles” through prayer and were victorious as a family. I realize now that the difficulties I faced as a child and later as a teen were to prepare me for the day when I would offer advice and prayer to those who were also living in desperate circumstances.
I knew then and I know now that the one constant friend in my life was God the Son, God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.
I knew that it would be important to have an education if my work for God were to continue and grow. My family could not afford to send all seven of their children to school so I worked in a local high school fetching water, gardening, working in the library, making bricks and cleaning houses to earn my way through school. My mother helped me by selling a cow to help me get books and she secured a borrowed uniform.
I completed high school (“Form Four”) and God lead me into many different jobs where I learned many skills that I continue to use in today’s ministry work.
In late 1994, I began my first work in the Kibera slum – Africa’s largest. Despite the poverty and other enormous challenges that face everyone in the slum each day, I felt a strong sense of community and love with the people and felt lead by God to pursue my ministry, specifically with children, within the slums of East Africa. I was not an ordained pastor at this point and continued to pray and fast for God’s will in my life.
In 1995, I was blessed with an unexpected pregnancy and was thrilled by the birth of my son, Patrick. Patrick’s father did not stay in our lives but we Patrick and I remain happy as a family and I am very proud of my son as he excels in school.
After Patrick was born, we both lived “up country” in a small western village called Masana with my extended family. It was while living in Masana, that I heard a very powerful voice from God tell me to enter missionary work full-time and to provide for children by whatever means God allowed. In 2004, I was approached by Power Unlimited Ministries International and entered into a year of pastoral teaching at the School of Ministry and was ordained on behalf of the Christian Foundation in Fellowship.
I started to work in the nearby slum of Kawangware and began to counsel many children and their families in the community. My leadership within the Kawangware slum began to grow and with God’s grace I was able to establish the Rhema Hope Children’s Ministry where I work with children and their families to improve their lives.
My relationship with God is very powerful. He is such a wonderful, caring, loving God who makes me feel secure. I speak to Him many times each day and His love and kindness raise my spirits when I am facing enormous challenges in the slum and find myself becoming discouraged. My relationship with Christ continues to grow and mature each day. My continued submission and trust in Him also means that he sends wonderful miracles and surprises into my life. My life is devoted entirely to serving Christ.
Each and every day I pray that God will improve and develop all areas of my life and will help my faith mature my walk with Christ. I ask God to turn my weaknesses into blessings.
After being given God’s greatest promise that He will “take you to the nations” (Genesis 28:15) I find that my mission field is vast as I continue to reach out to all Kenyan communities where I witness many miraculous signs and wonders by the grace of God. As I walk the path that God has set before me, I encounter many dangers and challenges. The work can be very lonely as I travel from one remote province to the other at times going for long hours without clean food or water while trying to prevent disease such as malaria.
With God’s continued love and powerful guidance, I pray that I may have the privilege to reach further into East Africa and even to communities beyond Africa where I can continue to deliver a message of hope in Christ.
Prophetess/Pastor Beatrice Agessa
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