A WEST Devon curate this week headed off on a short term mission to help bring vital training and encouragement to the Kenyan Anglican Youth Leaders. The Rev David Parr, curate of St Andrew?s Whitchurch, Tavistock, is leading a SOMA team from the UK and Uganda, at the Tabor Hill Retreat Centre, Nyahururu, north of Nairobi, where 58 key youth leaders are meeting, two from each of the 29 dioceses in the Anglican Church of Kenya. Working with SOMA UK ? Sharing of Ministries Abroad ? the team has been asked to provide in depth teaching to inspire and encourage the leaders who come from all over Kenya, to give them teaching tools to reach out to young people and to inspire them to be passionate about Jesus. This is David?s second mission with SOMA, the first being part of the Rev Patrick Whitworth?s All Saints Weston team to the diocese of Owerri, Nigeria in 2000 to lead a conference for clergy and lay readers on community transformation. Now with his own parish, David is looking forward to leading and sharing ministry in a new cross cultural situation. The aim of this Conference is to encourage the KAYO leaders to come up with a strategy to lead their young people and for the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) to recover its prophetic relevance for the nation. SOMA team members finance all their travel ? anybody who would like to help contribute to the further £3,000 needed, please contact: SOMA UK, PO Box 6002, Heath and Reach, Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 0ZA SOMA is a non-profit charity in the Anglican Church world-wide, working to bring renewal, mainly by sending short-term mission teams.
