6 Foreign missions have had a long and successful involvement in Kenya

7 Major sectors of the population needing specialized ministry:

a) Young people

b) HIV/AIDS sufferers

c) The large numbers of city slum dwellers – including over 60,000 children living on Nairobi's streets

d) Muslims

8 Less evangelized peoples – about 9% of Kenya's population belongs to peoples only marginally impacted by the gospel

a) The largely pastoralist animistic peoples of the north and west who have begun to respond to the gospel

b) The largely Muslim Oromo-related peoples of the northeast

c) The nine Mijikenda peoples of the coastal hills

d) The coastal Swahili and Arab population which is strongly Muslim

e) The Somali in the northeast and cities

f) The Asian community is Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Parsee and Sikh

9 Bibles and Bible translation

a) The valued catalytic ministry of the Bible Society (UBS) in translation, revision, publishing and distributing the Scriptures

b) SIL with 129 workers, together with the related but indigenous BTL have 13 active language projects

c) Living Bibles International, which has translation projects in seven of Kenya's languages

10 Supportive Ministries:

a) Aid programmes

b) MAF, with 76 workers, has a well-developed ministry, flying to many parts of East Africa and northeast Congo from their base in Nairobi

c) GRN has recordings available in 174 languages

d) The JESUS film has been widely shown and in 2000 was in circulation in 20 languages with a further 16 in the process of being done

e) Christian radio

11 Nairobi is a key hub for ministry in Africa and beyond

Politics

Independent from Britain in 1963.

Religion

There is full freedom of religion and much of the population professes to be Christian – including many in leadership.

Churches in Kenya

Missionaries from Kenya

673 in 53 agencies to 17 countries

Missionaries to Kenya

2,274 in 175 agencies from 30 countries

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Geography

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Area 582,646 sq.km. Most people live in the fertile plateaus of the south and west.

Population (2000) 30,080,372 +2.02%AGR

Capital Nairobi 2,300,000.

Peoples

Bantu 68.2%; Nilotic 26%; Cushitic 3.2%; Khoisan 0.3%; South Asian 0.7%; Other 1.6%.

Literacy 78%. Official languages English, Swahili. All languages 61. Languages with Scriptures 16Bi 6NT 9por 17w.i.p.

Economy

Predominantly agricultural, light industries, and a major tourist industry. HDI 0.519; 136^th/174. Public debt 53% of GNP. Income/person $340 (1.1% of USA).

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