We are drawn from different parts of the country and last Saturday, most of us took the 100 kilometer journey to the idyllic lakeside town of Naivasha for a camp that was also to serve as a retreat since it was a long weekend with the following Monday being Mashujaa Day, a Kenyan public holiday.
Over a hundred young people, diverse in many ways but united in Christ were looking forward to a grand time, away from the monotony of daily life and hopefully have a memorable experience. This was gonna be K-Krew’s “Kubamba Village” and boy, did it rock. K-krew/Kubamba is a movement. A ministry whose sole focus is to reach the 14-26 year age group to the Lord and help them remain unashamed for Christ. The group’s vision is to bring 1 million to Christ and to disciple 100,000 believers to maturity. K-Krew, an abbreviation of ‘Kubamba’ has grown from its inception in 2000 when Pastor Moses Mathenge a.k.a. DJ Moz, began a weekly gospel show hosted by a local radio station. At the moment, 7 hours of airtime on Citizen TV every Sunday on the popular shows of Rauka and Kubamba, more airtime has been on Hot 96’s radio show ‘Inuka’, there’s a weekly Bible Study between 6-8p.m. at Nairobi Cinema while each month, an even dubbed ‘Chillage’ happens at the Panari Hotel where guys participate in ice skating among other events. Through their School of Deejaying, they are training the next generation of Deejays, Hypemen and sound engineers on a professional level.
So, here we were in Naivasha, having arrived on a chilly evening but nothing seemed cold. Ripples of laughter broke the air of Nature’s Camp while groovy music pumped as everyone settled in. There were tents pitched outside and the air was full of adventure and expectancy. After dinner, as some danced, I joined other young people to play football. This must have gone on until midnight when we rested awaiting the next day.
Sunday did not feel one and many admitted to have lost the sense of what day of the week it was. There was a time of devotion and the day was full of activities. It was massive fun, and in the Lord. No booze, secular music yet everyone was having a great time. I kept on reflecting on a book that was first published in 1971, written by Billy Graham and aptly titled ‘The Jesus Generation’.
To paraphrase, he wrote the book at a time when The US was experiencing a wave of many young people accepting Jesus in their lives, the hippy movement was declining and Dr.Bill was responding to fears that it was not genuine turning away from sin but just a movement that would decline just as rapidly as it developed. So there I was with many other young people, having fun in the Lord but also pondering on these thoughts.
But then I remembered that it is God who saves and the relationship is personal. I was glad that a remnant will always be there to live for Him. God’s Word that is everlasting declares in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come”. No one was high on drugs or booze, there was nothing carnal going on and I’m confident that the Jesus culture in Kenya isn’t just a fad. Satan must be wetting his pants as the movement grows from the hearts of every young person in a relationship with Jesus.
Being a Christian is not a fad, it’s not a lifestyle you adopt for Sunday, rather, it’s a personal relationship that lasts for life. It’s not complicated either, since scripture declares that “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God..” and though a solemn decision it is to follow Christ, it’s fairly simple, just like A-B-C (Accept, Believe that Christ is King). 1st John 1:9 outlines; “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness..”
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