MISSIONS SPECIAL: ELIM SOUND
Mission to KENYA
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n September 2019, Elim Sound, in partnership with Elim Missions, sent four of our worship team members out to Nairobi, Kenya, for a week of serving and teaching.
Cluny Wiecki, Daniel Scott and Joel Hampton, together with Pastor Sam Blake and Ian Yates from Elim Sound, began the week at the African Pastors’ Conference, where men and women in church leadership from all over Africa came to receive encouragement and inspiration. Following this, the team spent two days training musicians, singers and technical engineers on subjects such as: the heart of a worshipper; forging a successful song list, and individual instruments. To round off a great week, they led worship at City Lighters Church, a youth church that has grown to over 400 within two years! Here’s what the team had to say about their experience…
and challenged me as a worship leader. This trip has impacted how I see and do worship, urging me to seek and ask for more. Daniel Scott Hearing the testimonies of the pastors there was mind-blowing. We worshipped with people who knew the true meaning of sacrifice, and wanted more of God.
I made connections with many people who wanted to learn and grow in their worship team. Visiting a youth church Joel Hampton was one of my main I remember being highlights on the trip, eight years old, looking and I was moved by the at traditional African power of their worship. tribal drummers playing together, and Sam Blake it became a dream of In 2019, Elim Sound mine to join them one has reached India, day. the Philippines, South America and finally Having the privilege Kenya. It was personally of drumming on significant because I was this mission trip has able to include three of been a dream come our ECC worship team: Cluny, Joel and Daniel. true for me, and my testimony is that of The hunger for worship and teaching was so God’s faithfulness to different from what we see here in the UK. One an 8-year-old kid, with worship leader travelled through the night to get little going for him but to the conference, another came nine hours from pure ambition and a Mombasa, and three people from the Maasai tribe passion for worship. walked two hours on foot and four hours by bus. God will always deliver Teaching and encouraging brothers and sisters on His promises. in Christ, who had sacrificed so much to be there, was a humbling experience. Cluny Wiecki Setting out for this We thank our ECC family for the support both in prayer and finance. trip, my heart was to You made this trip and its successes possible, and I’m sure we will share my passion for hear of the fruit this mission is producing in the future. worship with others. In every session, we sensed hunger for the Presence of God and a desire, as musicians Words and photos and singers, to supplied by improve their craft. Pastor Sam Blake and Their desperation Joel Hampton for the things of God deeply moved us,
GRAPEVINE magazine • Issue 102 • February/March 2020
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