Newsletter of David Wilson
MARCH 2026
“Open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” (John 4:35)
Dear Friend,
The Lord Jesus sat at Jacob’s well and waited for a divine appointment. He was going to reach a town with the gospel, but His disciples were more interested in food than souls. Then a woman, living in sin, came to draw water. Her empty and guilty heart was longing for the Messiah (the Christ) to appear. He offered her living water and eternal life, and said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” She believed, and with a burning heart, left her water jar and went back into the town, calling people to come to Christ. The disciples returned with the food, but He refused saying, “Open your eyes and look at the fields.” They turned and saw the woman bringing the town to Him. Today, the Lord is saying the same to us who believe in Him: “Look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” In 2025, over 600,000 in the ripe harvest fields were called face to face by our evangelists to come to Christ.
KENYA Africa, once known as the dark continent and the white man’s grave, is now a harvest field of souls. In the past, many missionaries died from malaria and disease, some were even martyred, but the seed of the gospel that was sown in the blood of the martyrs is now producing an indestructible Church. So many are coming to faith in Christ that perhaps He may be calling Africans to fulfill His Great Commission… to proclaim the Good News of Salvation throughout the whole world.
History was made this January in our mission when we formed an African Zone. We have our Branches in Kenya and Congo making up the two necessary branches to form the Zone. Also at the Zone Conference were two evangelists from Rwanda and Nigeria. After they went with us into schools for assemblies, and later into villages for film meetings, they wanted to develop their branches modeled on ours in Kenya and Congo. They saw hundreds of spiritually hungry hearts listening and responding to Christ in the schools, and heard one principal saying to all the students, “The most important thing to get is eternal life!” Then he pleaded with us to come back.
After visiting a safari and seeing many African animals, we headed off to the Turkana tribe people near the border of Ethiopia. We took our two Land Cruisers to carry all of us and our film equipment. As the country turned into a wilderness, the road became extremely rough. There were sharp rocks in the surface, and we had to travel at only 3 mph to dodge them. Finally, one penetrated a tire and it blew out. Now we were down to one spare tire as we proceeded, and there were no garages or gas stations for miles. After 8 hours, we finally arrived in Baragor, a town located in a semi-arid desert.
The Turkana tribe people were friendly. Moses, our Kenya director, being from the same tribe, spoke directly to them in their language. In the country areas they are mainly semi-nomadic farmers noted for raising camels, goats and donkeys. Raids are not unusual when they steal cattle from neighboring groups. In some cases, these raids have led to dozens or hundreds of people injured or killed. In village life, men carry a little stool for sitting on, and the women do all the work. The women wear layers of necklaces if they are engaged or married. Livestock is used to negotiate the dowry for wives, and sometimes wealth determines the number of wives. They live on milk, meat and blood, and trade in town for maize, beans and vegetables. Animals are protected at night in pens.
The Turkana believed in a Supreme Being named Akuj. There is also a belief that the presence of dead ancestors is seen to be evil, requiring animal sacrifices to appease them when angry. The recognition of the ancestor Ekipe equates with Satan. Different “diviners of God” are respected as they receive revelations from Akuj, and can pronounce curses or blessings. Into this religious scene comes the Bible and its glorious message of Christ as the Son of God and loving Savior.
Public schools warmly invited us to preach the gospel to all their students. When one high school principal learned that we were going to show a film in a village that night, he demanded that we show it immediately to all his students. They stuck paper on the windows, and soon they were all locked onto the story of Mary Magdalene and her encounter with Jesus. Other schools were located far out in the desert, and we wondered why no students were coming to one of them. Then we were told that there were snipers shooting people. After a couple of hours, the children came, some with bare feet, and sat on the floor. They listened intently to every word of the Bible stories, learning how God loves them and wants to give them a home in heaven through faith in Jesus. In all the schools, several thousand heard the plan of salvation with most praying to trust Jesus as Savior. All were given a Bible comic booklet.
A local evangelical church selected the sites for our open air meetings each night. The film was announced by driving around the village. The children came quickly and then the teens and adults arrived. As the JESUS film was shown in Turkana, people were amazed to hear Him speaking their language. They all stayed for the two-hour film and then for the preaching, which was illustrated on a sketch board with black light. Many prayed to trust the Lord as their Saviour. In open air meetings near the town we could use the Mary Magdalene film in Swahili, which also covers Adam and Eve, Abraham, the cross and the resurrection. Every night a crowd came and we saw a great response. One night we were told that if we mixed villages there could be fighting.
Having already reached the children, we went to another village and had a good crowd. Sometimes God rearranged our schedule to reach more people for His kingdom.
We stayed in a hotel for $6 a night, and ate in a new restaurant for about the same price. The manager told us that we were her first guests. She was a believer. Sadly, her father had just died and her mother had been blinded in an operation. Then on our last day, her son became sick and they needed to go by bus over the same terrible road to a distant hospital. We felt led to give her $100. She cried and then asked for prayer. After hugs and saying goodbye, we began our two-day journey back to the airport in Nairobi. Since then we have learned that her son needed special medical treatment for his blood, and is now recovering well. The Lord not only graciously used us to lead lost souls to Him, but also to bring a Christian and her son comfort and healing.
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Compelled by His Love,
David Wilson