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After the crusade meetings, he and his friend Paul Mwakio attended a seminar in Kisumu town organized for preachers and their wives, though he was neither a pastor, nor married, he was compelled by my love for God to attend. T.L. Osborn was the main speaker. The attendance was about 5,000 people. He developed a hunger and thirst for the work of God. Every time an altar call was made for people who desired to commit their lives for missions, he would be the first one to go forward, and in tears, he would kneel down and cry out to God. He would then rise up to find himself alone at the altar rail, everybody else having finished their prayers and already gone. The fire of the Gospel was now lit following T.L. Osborn's meetings. The believers at Asumbi Teachers College embarked on evangelism within the college where he played an active role in crusades.

On completing training in 1975, he was posted to Bamburi Primary School in Mombasa where he worked for three years before being transferred to Mvita Primary School. He taught at Mvita Primary School for one year. When he went to Mombasa, he introduced himself to the late Evans Mrima, who was then pastoring Deliverance Church at the Tudor Village Hall. The late Mrima introduced him to the congregation and announced that he would be the preacher in an open air meeting that organized by the church. His involvement in evangelism with the church at Mombasa helped him grow in faith because it called for prayer and the study of God's Word. While at Mombasa, he was a member of the congregation pastored by Rev. George Gichana, now the pastor of Deliverance Church Eldoret.

Later, Rev. Gichana left for Nairobi as the National Evangelist in Deliverance Church and Pastor John Adamson Otieno took over as the pastor of the church. It was during his service in both school and church at Mombasa that he met Joyce who was then an up-grading student at Government Secretarial College, now Government Training Institute (G.T.I.). He was actively involved in the Christian work at the college.   ¤