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    The Church and the War-affected Youth : a study of the Karen Free Methodist Church
    (2014-05-16) Walker, Dennis Nyamieh
    The research was a qualitative descriptive study that inquired into the needs of the war-affected youth in the Karen Free Methodist Church and how the needs are being met. Data was collected by means of survey questionnaires. Four pastors, one youth leader, eleven war-affected youth, six parents. and six Kenyan youth completed the specific group questionnaires. The study revealed that over 60% of the respondents attending the Karen Free Methodist Church are aware of the needs of the war-affected youth in the Church. The specific needs of the war-affected youth in the Karen Free Methodist church focused on the psychological, economic/material and spiritual categories. The findings across all of the groups indicate that over 60% of the respondents reported that love and acceptance were the major psychological needs of the war-affected youth. Almost 50% of the respondents in the Pastors Nouth Leader and Parents' Groups revealed that counseling in the area of trauma healing is a need of the war-affected youth attending the Karen Free Methodist Church. The economic/material needs that were observed as major themes in the study were money, food, clothing, education and shelter. There were no major differences noted in the needs of the war-affected youth and the Kenyan youth attending the Karen Free Methodist Church. It was revealed that the Karen Free Methodist tend not to be meeting the needs of the youth in the Church. It was recommended among other things, that the Karen Free Methodist Church train and develop interested persons to focus on youth ministry, set up a youth center, be involved in trauma counseling and develop good family-based youth ministry.
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    The influence of sunday school on the spiritual development of children : Karinde Free Methodist Church
    (2014-04-17) Mattah, Nereah Adala
    The purpose of this research was to find out the extent to which the Free Methodist Church Sunday school has had an impact on the spiritual development of children of ages 6-14. The main areas of inquiry, which were foundational to this study, are the parents of the children aged between 6-14 and the Sunday school curriculum used in the Karinde Free Methodist Church. The instruments, which were formulated and used, included questionnaires for parents and teachers. The questionnaires consisted of closed-ended and open-ended questions. There were also interview questions for the children. The information gathered was analyzed and summarized by use of various tables and graphs where necessary. The findings of the study revealed the following about the Karinde Free Methodist Church Sunday school. The influence of the Sunday school in the learners' relationship with God was weak. Its influence on the children's relationship with other people was strong. It had very weak influence on the learners' relationship with nature (their environment). The regularity with whichlearners practiced lessons learnt about God was weak. Practice of lessons learnt about relating with other people was strong while practice of lessons learnt about nature was very weak. The writer recommends that the church considers training the Sunday school teachers thereby equipping them for the noble ministry to children and that the children be divided up in the Sunday school according to age groups to enable teachers minister adequately to them bearing in mind the unique characteristics of particular age groups. The church could draw a regular budget to equip the Sunday school with modem learning facilities. Parents ought to be more involved in the spiritual nurture of their children by going through the lessons learnt in Sunday school with them and helping them to apply the same in their lives.
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    Understanding the challenge of the care of orphans in the Free Methodist Church of Kenya
    (2014-04-17) Nanjowe, Neddy Mundia
    The problem of orphans in Kenya is blooming significantly. The challenge of how to care for them is increasingly critical to achieving a healthy society. Understanding the role of church leaders in the challenging care for orphans is necessary. To be able to understand how best the church functions in addressing the orphan problem, the principal objective of this study was to understand why church leaders of the FMCK have not been able to offer significant help in caring for orphans in the church. Using a descriptive approach, this study employed a closed-ended questionnaire as an instrument of data collection. Fifty church leaders were sampled. They included local congregation and denominational leaders of the Free Methodist Church of Kenya. Results of the study revealed that leaders perceived themselves to have a magnificent task of using their position of influence to offer care ministries to orphans in the church. Financial constraints and ignorance on the care of orphans were ruled out as excuses for not establishing a ministry to orphans. These leaders also indicated that the church has a social obligation to care for orphans. As a result the following recommendations emerged: 1) leaders should use their leadership positions to build a ministry for orphans. 2) Leaders should prioritize an orphan care ministry alongside other church ministries so as to raise up a healthy generation. Last but not least, church leaders are to be in the frontline to offer leadership guidance in the fight against HIV/AIDS which was noted as the highest cause in increase of orphans.
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    Parents' perception of their involvement in the spiritual nurture of their children at Karinde Free Methodist Church
    (2014-04-14) Uyambaje, Therese G.
    The purpose of this grounded study was to understand and explain parents' perception of their involvement in the spiritual nurture of their children of six to twelve years of age. It explored parents' understanding of the Biblical teachings and their application to the same as well as factors hindering their involvement in the spiritual development of their children. Data collected was by means of interviews with six parents who were handpicked among the nine parents. These parents are members of Free Methodist Church/ Karinde. The research findings revealed the following results: • There is a need for children of six to twelve years of age to grow spiritually because it is a Biblical mandate. • The Bible is the basic tool for spiritual nurture of children. • Prayer, obedience to God and to the people, reading the Bible, teachings on the goodness of the church, respect to God and parents are the things the parents teach their children to help them grow spiritually. • Home is the place whereby this spiritual growth takes place, though it is done occasionally. • Parents' past spiritual experiences (both positive and negative) serve as motivating factors for them to nurture their children spiritually. • Factors that hinder parents from being fully involved in nurturing their children spiritually include: lack of quality time, lack of consistency, forgetfulness and the feeling of inadequacy. From the findings, some recommendations were proposed to the parents, the ministers of the church, and the Sunday school teachers in understanding the need of helping the children of six to twelve years old to develop spiritually, with a view of helping them better fulfill their God-given responsibility so that these children can embrace Christ Jesus as their Savior and become His disciples.