David Gargule is one of the pastors at AIC Korr. We call him Pastor David. Pastor David is one of the people we go to in order to understand local culture and how we should respond to it and fit in; his support in this is invaluable. We often discuss issues of cross-cultural mission and the way in which cultures are different yet God and the Bible are universal.Pastor lives with his wife, Alice, and their five children, not far from us. The children are regular visitors to our house and they often bring eggs from their chickens for us to buy.
Pastor David has a real desire to share his Christian faith with his fellow Rendille people. Recently he was involved with an outreach to a local town to plant a church where there has previously not been one. The Korr church is currently supporting this fledgling congregation, especially until January when a pastor is arriving. And in June David was one of the Korr pastors that hosted a conference of over 100 church leaders from northern Kenya which, amongst other things, distributed solar MP3 players pre-recorded with the story of Jesus in local languages and explored the use of them.
He recently visited South Korea, his first time out of Kenya, to make links with some churches there. And on returning to Kenya stayed in Nairobi for classes for his masters degree. Sadly I our paths didn't cross and I didn't get to see him in Nairobi.
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