OR Subregion Deliverance Church Youth Leaders Meeting
Deliverance Church Tuala
October 6, 2024
Members Present
1. Mary Makau - Treasurer, Dcok
2. Vincent Musyoka - Organizing Sec, Dcok
3. Moses Kamau - Secretary, Dc MR
4. John Gitarang'a - P/W Leader, Dc MR
5. Joe Matolo - Dc MR
6. Danson Munywa- Teens Rep. DCT
7. Vincent Labosu- DCT
8. John Mbui - DCT
9. Triza - DCT
10. Hope Tonui- DCT
Absent with Apologyy
Tony Elisha - Chair, Dc MR
Dc Kiserian
Agenda
1. Review of the August youth and teens conference 2024
2. Overseer's visit
3. Thanksgiving
Preliminaries
John prayed to start the meeting. Mary passed the chair’s apologies and welcomed all the
members to introduce themselves and give reports concerning their members in the local
churches.
It was noted that there was inconsistency in the youths members. Many came and went at
different times.
There's was a great concern about youths who were getting married outside church or
backsliding when it comes to marriage. All leaders were urged to follow up their members, lead
by example and redefine salvation in the youth groups emphasizing Purity in matters marriage.
Review of the August Youth and Teens conference
Mary appreciated all leaders for the commitment and great team work at the conference.
Commendably Danson, Kennedy and the team which came on the first day (Wednesday) to
clean and prepare the venue.
There were good things noted during the conference:
● Registration ( only those registered were allowed in, compared to the previous
conference where many people were in the conference without paying
● Food was good in terms of quantity and taste
● Teens were active, many took notes during the sessions. Many were baptized in the
Holy Spirit on Friday evening sessions.
● Bonfire held on Friday was good both for the youths and teens
Challenges:
Minimal participation by the host church (DC Kiserian)
● Praise and worship (praise and worship leader had been sick at the time). There were
less people to help in the p/w
● Poor hospitality - some guest missed meals, dishes were left in office for long time
making the office look untidy, meals took long to be served to the guest.
● Instruments - there were challenges in operating the instruments since there were no
constant people from the host church to help.
● Games were not played as planned
● In availability of youths. Most were the teens in the conference. Very few youths showed
up to the conference. These were mostly leaders or facilitators. Most of the guest
ministers had to change their message because of the audience.
● Honorarium - we were not able to honor the ministers as we had planned. We received
less finances
What to do different :.
● Separate youth and Teens meetings.
● To plan a teens conference and a one day event for the youths.
● To change venue - to choose another venue with good facilities, this will encourage
more people to come to the conference .
● To plan and prepare early in terms of venue, finances, ministers and also include the
subregional council in our planning.
● To change activities - to include more games, music and team building activities
especially in the teens conference.
● To give our invited guest ministers our expectations and objectives in the topics of
discussion.
● Choose a good time for our events- Hope mentioned that August conference was just
about when school were opening and parents were already preparing for the school
fees, many teens were busy with home work. We all agreed we needed a good timing
for effectiveness of our events
● Mary said that we were advised to do just one event from the subregion council due to
our current financial status and consequently suggested that we do a weekend
challenge. Invest in speakers and choose a central venue where as many youths and
teens as possible would be able to come and be impacted. Members supported the idea.
Mary advised members to go and think about the place and the time to discuss in the
next meeting and put in our 2025 calendar.
● John suggested we do more keshas, Mary added that we include our teens in this
Keshas and plan them especially when school are closed.
● To invite few guest ministers and make use of our local ministers especially in teens
meeting.
Overseer’s Visit
Mary mentioned that we had only contributed 16,000. Masai rd had a deficit of 3000, Dcok
4000,Tuala 2000, Nkoroi had already cleared ,Kiserian 4300. We were urged to continue
contributing upto to 6000 for the churches who were behind. Deadline for contributions was set
to be in November 3, 2024.
Time of visit would be either in November or early December. Dates would be communicated
later upon confirmation from the host. We will visit our Overseer all of us both youth and Teens.
Thanks Giving event 2024
Mary mentioned that we would not be able to hold our Thanksgiving event this year due to time
and finances rather we would join the subregional Thanksgiving event for all the churches.
AOB
Review of the subregional youth committee. Some departments were not active.
Churches to update their monthly contributions
Nkoroi - 600
Dcok - 1200
Kiserian - 1800
Tuala - 2700
Maasai rd - up to date
Next meeting will be on 3rd November 2024 at DC Kiserian at 2 PM
Adjournment
Moses prayed and the meeting ended.
