Those who imagine that student outreach to their communities is a challenge might want to consider the impact of students at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, a Seventh-day Adventist institution.
Those who imagine that student outreach to their communities is a challenge might want to consider the impact of students at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, a Seventh-day Adventist institution. On May 24, the university family witnessed the baptism of 556 young people as a result of Baraton students’ outreach to secondary schools in the region.
According to Dr. Mutuku J. Mutinga, president of the school, students “visit 20 to 30 schools in the area every Sabbath [Saturday] and minister to the secondary school students.”
In an interview with ANN, he said that college students were better suited to reaching those still in secondary education.
“Young people seem to talk each other’s language. The students are looked up to by their colleague youth; they are listened to.”
Mutinga emphasized that, “In Africa today, the church is a young church. More than 80 percent of the population of Africa is below the age of 40.”
While he is leaving Baraton to work in the Adventist Church’s regional office in Nairobi, Mutinga emphasized that the outreach from the school to area students will continue.
