God Did It! We Experienced It!
The Adventure the Courseys Experienced Following God from Texas to Idaho to the Coast of Kenya
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WHAT IS THIS STORY ABOUT?
This is a true story of God who created everything, and of His Christ. In beginning, I apologize for having to mention myself so much, but how could I reveal how great God is without showing how he took an insignificant nobody and used him in setting in process a story that many will find difficult to believe. To reveal God's greatness involves understanding that God can take the most helpless, hopeless, and aimless person and transform and use that person in achieving His purpose in redeeming all who are willing to come to Him through faith in Jesus Christ. Let me share with you how God took one person on a journey with Him to bring people to faith in Him and form them into churches that began to multiply and grow. These will continue to reproduce under His grace until He takes His people and His church to heaven.
One of the most difficult lessons in life to learn is that this life is not about oneself. It is all about God and what He chooses to do in and through individuals. This is a lesson that must be learned over and over. I always find myself forgetting it and constantly have to relearn it. When I get down in my spirit, get depressed, and get to feeling that everything is hopeless, I eventually remember that I have taken my spiritual eyes off Jesus as my purpose and begun to think that everything is about me. It is time for renewal to my purpose and mission. Let me share with you some of the wonderful things that God has permitted me to learn, see, and participate in through more than eighty years of being on mission with Him.
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About the Book
This is the story of God and his work. God brought a timid, self-willed boy from the woods of East Texas to the cotton fields of West Texas. God led him through Wayland Baptist University, the University of North Texas, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to prepare educationally for missionary service. God taught this man, Claylan Coursey, at his first pastorate at Wellington, Texas, to introduce people to Christ as their personal Savior. God then took him with his family to Idaho and taught him how God can use a family to start a new church. From there, God took him with his family to the coast of Kenya, Africa.
On the Kenyan coast, God first taught Clay Coursey and his fellow missionaries how to send Kenyan teams out to start new churches in order to touch unreached areas and establish a base for expansion through the Giryama Project.
Following this, God revealed his plan for every church to begin a new church. Using biblical methods from the book of Acts, these new churches began to saturate the area with other new congregations.
When this movement began to slow, God brought many Christian volunteers from America to join with the churches in partnership for two weeks to help and encourage them in their task of reaching out to other communities to start new churches. This is the story of how this movement spread across Kenya and into other parts of Eastern and Southern Africa.
About the Author
A native Texan, Claylan Coursey has served as pastor in Texas, Idaho, and Kenya, Africa. He was a church planter and school teacher in both Idaho and Kenya. Clay and his wife, Pat, served as missionaries in Kenya for the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for 32 years. He received degrees from Wayland Baptist University, North Texas State University, and two degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has three grown children. Clay and Pat are retired and currently live in Lubbock, Texas.