26-30
NOV 2024
Contextualizing Apologetics
REGISTRATION FOR IN-PERSON
Date: 30th Nov 2024
Venue: Mamlaka Hill Chapel
Time: 8:00am-2:00pm
CHARGES:
Students: Ksh 500
Early bird: Ksh 700
(Before Nov 14)
At the gate: Ksh 1000
The 5th Annual African Apologetics Conference
Our 5th annual conference 2024 theme is entitled Contextualizing the gospel in Africa. This theme seeks to challenge the upcoming apologists to think deeply about their own contexts and how apologetics can be practically useful for Africans. How do we begin meaningfully engaging the ideas that are challenging the gospel in Africa. In addition, how does the gospel address the African struggle for truth and meaning? We seek to challenge the budding pseudo-intellectualism which focuses on the non-local issues (European and American) and invite them to think critically about their local spaces.
conference timetable
TUE 26TH NOV | WED 27TH NOV | THUR 28TH NOV | FRI 29TH NOV | SAT 30TH NOV | |
TIME | 8:00 – 9:30 PM ONLINE | 8:00 – 9:30 PM ONLINE | 8:00 – 9:30 PM ONLINE | 8:00 – 9:30 PM ONLINE | 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM |
TOPIC | THEME EXPOSITION | Beyond Prosperity Gospel | Thinking beyond education | Word of Faith. Why is it so attractive? | IN-PERSON CONFERENCE |
SPEAKER | John Gathuku | Thuo Mburu | LIz Gitonga | Wanjiku Maina | Various |
SESSION OBJECTIVES
DAY | TOPIC | SPEAKERS |
TUE 26TH NOV 2024 | Theme exposition: Contextualization of the gospel to Africa | Gathuku Kibunga |
WED 27TH NOV 2024 | Beyond the prosperity gospel | Thuo Mburu |
THUR 28TH NOV 2024 | Education- Thinking beyond the subjects | Liz Gitonga |
FRI 30TH NOV 2024 | The word of faith movement | Wanjiku Maina |
IN-PERSON CONFERENCE PROGRAM – SAT 30TH NOV 2024
TIME | TOPIC | FACILITATOR |
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration | Ruth |
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM | Welcome from Apologetics Kenya | Ben Wabuke |
9:10 AM – 9:15 AM | Hymn session | |
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Keynote 1: Contribution of Africa to the growth of Apologetics | Felix Sumba |
10:20 AM – 10.50 AM | Tea Break // Partner briefs | |
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Keynote 2: The Great divide | Bundi Mamlaka |
11:50 AM – 12:00 AM | Tea Break // Partner briefs | |
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Hymn break | |
12:00 PM – 13:00 PM | Keynote 3: Building God centered businesses and professions | Timothy Mwenda |
13:00 PM – 14:00PM | Lunch and Networking | |
14:00 PM -14:50PM | Panel Discussion with Speakers + QnA |
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goodies
To be communicated.
Snacks & lunch shall be provided.
SPEAKER PROFILES
Dr. Thuo Mburu, PhD in Missiology specialising in Missiological Education with cognates in Church Growth and Contextualisation. With wide experience in Christian ministry having worked in a mission organisation and as a Pastor since 1993. He has extensive experience in mission and church leadership.
He is the former General Secretary of Trinity Fellowship, a Senior Pastor in Christ Is The Answer Ministries (CITAM), and an Ordained Church Minister.
He has travelled widely as a travelling preacher and conference speaker. He is passionate about biblical truth, cross-cultural missions, marriage and family, academic mentoring, and transformational leadership.
He has Authored the book, I Heard God: Real-life Testimonies of Discerning and Obeying the Voice of God and is currently completing a book on models of mission education.
He is married to Jane and has fathered two children who are well in their adult years.
He is a University Chaplain, Lecturer, and Director of Centre for African Christianity, Culture and Mission at PAC University.
I am a hopeful entrepreneur, building redemptive enterprises. I have been heavily involved in several startups and I’m the Chief Executive Officer of Fanaka Hospitality Group, which I co-founded eight years ago. I am also a preacher and teacher who openly tells others about things that fascinate me, as I am a generalist who is fascinated by a great many things. Beyond entrepreneurship and serving in my local church, Imani Bible Church, I love to travel and consider myself a dinner table enthusiast. I am married to the most beautiful Kendi Mwenda, who I met at my alma mater – Chuka University. We live in Kiambu County.
Liz Gitonga is an educationist with over 30 years’ experience in the field of education. Liz has taught in several learning institutions at both primary and high school levels, and has developed preschool curriculum for various institutions. About 22 years ago, Liz and her husband Patrice begun home-schooling, becoming one of the pioneer Kenyan homeschool families in Kenya. Liz has a great passion for education and describes her homeschooling journey as one that has been pivotal in shaping her understanding of education as discipleship. Having reached the conclusion that Christian education is imperative in forming godly character and cultivating the mind, Liz founded Veritas Education Africa, whose driving vision is Transformation through biblical education. Veritas works to equip homeschool parents and schools with knowledge, tools, and resources for an excellent education that is immersed in a biblical worldview. Liz is currently developing a curriculum series God Loves Kenya that explores Kenya from a providential perspective.
Liz is a steering committee member of the East Africa Christian Home-Educators (EACH). She serves in the committee of the Africa Home Education Exchange and in the advisory board of the Global Home Education Exchange. She also serves in the Global executive committee of the Third Education Revolution.
Liz holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Master’s degree in Education Psychology from Kenyatta University. She and her husband live in Nairobi, Kenya and are blessed with 3 children now 26, 21 and 18 years old, all of whom have been educated at home from preschool through to high school with 2 now having graduated from university.
I am a singer, songwriter, and Bible teacher, passionate about theology. While apologetics often targets non-believers, I focus on engaging the church, especially Charismatics,in doctrinal conversations. Through After Him Ministries, founded in 2018, i teach, disciple, and equip believers to be like the Bereans. A farmer by vocation, I am also pursuing an MDIV in theology, and blessed with a family—a husband and three children.
Gathuku Kibunga has been preaching the Gospel for 23yrs in Kenya and mostly on topics that engage the Kenyan contemporary culture through www.timazi.org
He is particularly interested in how digital entertainment influences the spiritual formation of Christians in Africa and the opportunity literature offers to redeem and shape the Christian mind. He’s currently a DMin student at Talbot school of theology.
He is the Executive Secretary at www.africaspeaks.global, the network of Christian Publishing Professionals in Africa.
Gathuku loves Maggie his wife and their 3 teenage children. He strives to live out the message he preaches first at home.
Felix is a gifted teacher, passionate about sound doctrine, church history, governance, theology, apologetics and biblical studies among other topics of importance to the Christian walk. He holds a Master of Divinity in Biblical Studies from the Africa International University, Bachelors in Business Management (Accounting) from Moi University and a CPA (K) from Strathmore University.
Although currently an itinerant minister, Felix served as a volunteer pastor for the Young Professionals’ ministry at the International Christian Center, an Assemblies of God congregation. He is also a founder member of Apologetics Kenya where he served as Treasurer and currently as a speaker/teacher and writer.
Currently, Felix is also he is pursuing various opportunities aimed at bridging the gap between the congregant and theological and Biblical training. His involvement in Christian leadership dates back to his Undergraduate studies where he served as the Secretary General of the Concert Group, an urban fellowship that uses the arts for outreach. He also served as the head of the Moi University Christian Union Resource center, popularly known as Bookstall. Outside campus, he has held various leadership positions within young professional ministry and the youth in church.
An experienced accountant and financial expert, Felix worked with Standard Chartered Bank for two years before joining the Church as its Senior Accountant, a position he held for over four years before leaving to pursue a postgraduate degree in Biblical Studies.