LAGHONYI PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
My names are Rev. Jones Mwashighadi Shake, got born again in 1978 after God healing me as a young man when I received prayer from Christians.
In 1987, I got married to one wife Jane Shake and am blessed with four children, Mackdonald Mwashighadi Shake, Solomon Mwakwasha Shake, Damarice Mkamburi Shake and Eunice Chao Shake.
Before marriage, God spoke to me to resign from my work as a hotelier and work for Him. In 1988 October, I resigned and started serving God fulltime under my pastor Bishop. Dr. Ernest Mwata. After five years, God sent me to Chawia location, Laghonyi to serve as a pastor. It’s here that I have seen God using me tremendously. He has walked with me using signs & wonders just as the Bible says in Acts 5:12.
God help us build a big church in the village. It wasn’t easy but God provided. As the gospel got juicier there, I felt that space was needed to help us accommodate our visitors on our own instead of taking them to friends houses. We invited guest speakers for seminars and crusades but we didn’t have place for them to sleep within the church compound. We come up with a plan for a vicarage which materialized and come to pass and now instead of the one bed room house I found there was a eight-bed roomed house.
It wasn’t easy to be welcomed in this area Chawia. It took God’s intervention. It was a place where people believed in their local gods i.e. gods who they called for rains to come, and another god who they used to use not to allow visitors enter their area. This is why this area lacked behind in everything as no development would be allowed in the village due to the god’s influence. The people’s trust was in witchcraft for their healing and protection. This area was totally covered with total darkness. In terms of educational achievement, the highest level was just the primary school level. It was a battle field between the light of the most highest God and the darkness that I found there. God manifested Himself and salvation entered the village picking one villager at a time through healing. Some called the church to go and destroy their gods which we did. We set the sorcery emblems of these gods on fire, while calling on the name of Jesus to cleanse the people and forgive them of their sins.
God won as usual. The light has now penetrated and we have seen developments coming our way in the village. Students have gone beyond high schools, gone to colleges and universities. We now boast of our own High school in the village, electricity and even farm produce which are being exported from Kenya. Famers are now busy in their farms. Investors have come and things are happening. This is all about God planting a church here and managing it through the Holy Spirit being the helper.
The church has grown greatly. So far we have had more than fifty weddings of youths getting married in the church and not from other churches but our own. These youth have been taught from Sunday school on the right path of God according to the Bible and God’s guidance.
All this hasn’t been by my own but with the church leadership. These are the deacons, who are the pushers of the vision that God has put in the pastor. We have other departments such as youth leaders, women leaders and men leadership without forgetting childrens department too. Intercessors and evangelism departments have caused the church to be as it is now. This also brought about a powerful and strong pillar in the ministry to be exposed. My wife Pst. Jane Shake come to existence by God taking her from one step to another of growth by His grace and God saw it good to ordain her as pastor.
Despite all the challenges in the ministry, God has been faithful that he has expanded the vision from the village to the City. The church is a mother to its branch in Mombasa Port Rietz ward named JESUS THE ROCK MINISTRIES .This born after God talked to me in 1995 that there is a branch of the church in Mombasa Port Rietz area in a vision. He showed me a plot that was enough for a church and for future developments. I thank God cause it come to existence after taking a step of faith in 2004 to follow up the vision.
I bless the Lord for this far He has brought His vision in me, He has not ashamed nor have we ashamed Him as a church despite the huge hills and valleys that we have across on the way. He has been in our side and we haven’t disappointed him we have remained steadfast to the faith in HIM.
We are trusting God for greater heights in the ministry, in Jesus name.
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