Other SheepOther Sheep East Africa eNews July 5, 2008
Gays told to leave SHORTGays told to leave the church
says Kenya Anglican Bishop following Jerusalem conference
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 OS Nairobi Seminar very timely 

Steve and Jose are staying at the FAWE Conference and Research Center in Kilimani, Nairobi.  You may visit us here, if you like.  Call ahead: our cell is 0725 366 359.  Steve and Jose will be in Nairobi through July 13.  They return again August 2-4.

Information on Other Sheep ministry in East Africa, July 4-August 5, 2008
 
 
 
Contact Info
 
EAST AFRICA
Rev. Michael Kimindu
cell: 0720 081 644
 
KENYA
Rev. John Makokha
cell: 0727 549 693
 
UGANDA
Pastor Brown
cell: 0703 310 224
 
STEVE & JOSE
cell: 0725 366 359 
Funding and Donors 
 
The Other Sheep East Africa 2008 Ministry (July 4-August 5), is being funded by gifts from individual donors and by a grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.  Gifts to the Other Sheep East Africa 2008 Ministry (July 4-August 5) can be made to the St. Louis home office of Other Sheep by going to the Other Sheep Exec Site homepage and clicking "donate."
Dear Friend of Other Sheep, 
 
The Other Sheep East Africa July 7-9 seminar in Nairobi, Kenya, on "Christianity and Homosexuality" could not be more timely.  This seminar will, among other topics, address "The Bible and Homosexuality" and show how biblical scholarship today demonstrates that the received views of "Sodom and Gomorrah," the Romans 1 "against nature," and other texts, have been seriously misunderstood, and in turn, unjustly misappropriated against sexual minorities.
 
For a copy of the notes on the Bible and Homosexuality that will be distributed at the Nairobi seminar, click here.  To view the Powerpoint that will be shown on the same topic, click here.
 
I'm writing to you from Nairobi, Kenya, where Jose and I just spent our first day (July 4) in great fellowship with Rev. Michael Kimindu (MCC minister/ Anglican Priest), Rev. John Makokha (UMC minister) and a gay Christian layperson.
 
Sincerely,
 
 (Rev.*) Steve Parelli, MDiv
 Other Sheep Executive Director 
 *Defrocked by a local Baptist congregation for entering into a committed gay relationship
Ariticle from Nairobi Star, July 3, 2008
Kenya Anglican Bishop Tells Gays to Change or Leave the Church.
 
The following is from the Nairobi Star:
 
The Anglican Church of Kenya now wants to stop gays attending church.
 
Gays and lesbians will not join the Anglican congregations anymore . . . unless they renounce their sexuality.
 
Star Article Gays told to leave chruchEldoret Dioceses Anglican Bishop Thomas  Kogo yesterday said the church had decided to forbid homosexuals from going to their churches if they could not repent and stick to biblical teachings.
 
He said:  "We have no choice about this.  Those who want to practice lesbianism or be gays must stand aside and let those of us who respect the biblical teachings continue with our work."
 
He was speaking after he arrived from a crucial worldwide Anglican conference held in Jerusalem, Israel, that discussed homosexuality.
 
Kogo said the church had extensively discussed the matter at the just-ended conference where it was agreed that all followers of the church must stick to the Bible.
 
The bishop yesterday attended a prayer service at the St. Mathews ACK Pro-Cathedral in Eldoret where he read a communiqué from the Jerusalem conference attended by more than 1,200 bishops and other clergy.
 
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