City Harvest Fellowship, a ministry of Inland Christian Center in Colton, held a four-day missions conference this past week.
Zachary Fox, pastor of City Harvest Fellowship, said that the purpose of the Steven W. Fox Foundation for Worldwide Missions Conference was to open people's eyes to the work being done by their organization, and the effect they are having in East Africa, mainly in Kenya.
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The Rev. Zachary Fox, pastor of City Harvest Fellowship, and Bishop Tom Arati, of Mombasa, Kenya, spoke at the recent Steven W. Fox Foundation for Worldwide Missions Conference.
One of the speakers during the conference was Bishop Tom Arati, of Mombasa, Kenya.
Arati is the head of Bible Way Ministries, which includes a 2,000-member church in Mombasa and smaller congregations in the Kwale and Ogembo districts.
In the Kwale district, he also is the head of a kindergarten through eighth-grade school for 400 students.
Arati had been a sponsored student at the Kenyan Harvest Fields Bible College, which is run by the Inland Christian Center missions ministries.
He encouraged everyone at the conference to sponsor a student at the Bible college because the sponsorship can "carry the missions vision to a state much higher than one can dream. When you sponsor someone, you don't know what kind of ministry you are building and what kind of things can happen for the Lord's work."
Arati said he has traveled to Zimbabwe, Ghana and the United States and "I'm not sure my sponsor would have ever been able to do that. The seed she planted may have looked very small, but it can turn into a much bigger thing than you ever dreamed of."
Fox said the Steven W. Fox Foundation was named for his father, who died in February.
His father had been instrumental in the growth of the Kenya ministries that had been established by his own father, Leonard Fox, in 1954.
There are 112 churches operating throughout 11 districts in Kenya; another Bible college was started in Arusha, Tanzania.
"God has commissioned us to teach the Bible and to reach out with the gospel. That's what we are doing in Kenya; that's what we're doing in Tanzania. Our work in those countries has gotten so large that we need ways to get other people involved in our ministries there so our conference is about getting the word out about what we are doing.
