As lead pastor of the University Church of the Nazarene at Africa Nazarene University (ANU) in Nairobi, Kenya, Gift Mtukwa receives visits from many people in the church and the surrounding community who hope the church will give them something. 

“Every Sunday I would leave the pulpit and people would say, ‘Pastor, I don’t have this, I don’t have that,’” he says.

He sees it as a mindset of dependence. His pastoral team, which includes three other part-time pastors, is trying to engender in the people the ability to solve their own problems and care for their own needs, and then mature to the point where they are oriented toward helping others.

“We teach people that we are not just here for what we can get; we are here because we love God. We should not come expecting to get, but to come to see what we can give.”

For the rest of the story, see Engage magazine.