INTERNSHIP REFLECTION

By
KABUYE ALEX
BACEM/6166

A Project
Presented to Rev. Harris Gichuhi
In partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for
PTH 4116
INTERNSHIP REFLECTION
03/AUG/2022

KAG EAST University

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 INTRODUCTION.

This paper is intended to give a reflection on how I have integrated my training at KAG EAST

UNIVERSITY to practically serve the Local Church and the community of any place that God

will send me to. It is also to shade light on what I have learnt during my time at KAG EAST and

during my internship program. Indeed the three years have been worth spending at this university

because I have seen God changing me in various aspects of life to make me a better minister than

I was when I stepped my first foot on this university. My spiritual life, physical, intellectual, and

many others have changed so much for the good of the great commission and helping my local

church and the communities through the word of God and the servant leadership skills I have

gained at this precious university.

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 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.

It is surely of no doubt in my heart and soul that for a long time I have spent at KAG EAST

UNIVERSITY with the lecturers, friends, pastors, and the entire student’s body, my personal

relationship with God has drastically manifested in my life through my understanding, actions,

communication with God and so many other aspects.

I cannot fail to recognize the tireless efforts of the university in the chapel services which have

been of benefit to me physically and spiritually, my good lecturers who are not only teachers but

also servants of God who took their time to help me understand more about God and the bible.

From day one to the time I have done my internship program which has shaped me more as a

servant leader because a Christian leader without a relationship with God Himself is a failed

leader. But I am thankful to God that during this period, when having my personal daily

devotions praising, worshipping, praying and reading the word to understand it. There is really

most of the time I felt like heaven on earth because many people out there do not believe that

God still speaks but I witnessed this. During the study of the word, I got time to really

understand what God thinks of me and what He promised me that He will do. All this improved

my personal relationship with God and therefore I really thank my instructor Rev.Harris for

taking me through this and guiding me and the entire university body for the ecstasy of memories

I have had.

THE WORD OF GOD.

During my undergraduate studies at KAG EAST UNIVERSITY in Church Education Ministries,

it is at this place that God helped me through my lecturers who some were Kenyans and others

American who were remarkable in their teachings that I was able to learn more of the word of

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God to become more knowledgeable because we know that many people perish due to lack of

wisdom (Hosea 4:6 ) and there is nothing more important on earth than to know God because to

know Him is eternal life (John 17:3). In this catch of time, I got to realize the mistakes that I used

to make while preaching and organizing my messages as a minister and servant of God, I learnt

interpretation of scriptures, exegesis, expository preaching, how to get the context of the writer

and what it means for the church today rather than just proof texting on any particular scripture.

Theological education is such a crucial part that all the ministers and the believers must take

because it is when you reach here that you realize you did not know anything.

During my internship, a great thanks to the university board of staff and my instructor who

helped to direct me on how to do my personal devotions where I got much time to read the word

of God and going deeper into it so as to know and to learn from what God wants me, my family

and the entire church to learn from it. Honestly speaking, this time taught me something because

I was this kind of person who waits when I am about to preach and then read the bible but I

realized that the more you spend time in the bible the more you yearn to read it more and more

hence a close relationship with the father.

It is through this intense reading of the word and learning how to interpret it that has helped me

to do apologetics in the schools and churches that I have visited when people asked questions

about the Christian faith because it is apostle Paul who tells us that we should always be

prepared to give an answer or reason (apologia) for the faith we stand for and do this with

gentleness (1 Peter 3:15) and I have seen the hand of God through these sessions of question and

answers that I have been welcomed to because some youths changed and others gave their lives

to Christ hence fulfilling the great commission (Matthew 28:18-19).

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 SERVANT LEADERSHIP.

When God calls in any ministry, He expects us to be servant leaders just as Jesus Christ was

during his time on earth (Luke 22:24-27) because as leaders in the church we ought to learn so

much from our master Jesus Christ though many of the church leaders today have neglected this.

Personally, during this period of time at this university I have learned to humble myself just as

Jesus did regardless of how far God has lifted me. And this came because of the remarkable

teachings I received from my lecturers and also from the university chapel.

Also during my internship program, I learnt this from my pastor Rev. Joyce Singi who is such a

humble servant of God who respects everyone regardless of their status, age, race and so on, and

also other leaders in church whom I was working with during the preparations of the gross center

and discipleship materials from whom I learnt so much from their experiences that they shared

with me. I also tried so much to exercise this when I went for missions, visitations, and teaching

especially when I was the leader and I thank God that indeed He has shaped me into someone

and I know when I go back to my country Uganda or anywhere God has sent me, I will be a

servant leader by the grace of God.

IT IS GOD AND ONLY HIM ALONE.

I have also come to a realization that it is all God and only Him through all the things that

manifest in the lives of everyone and upon the earth because He is the creator and the sustainer

of each and everything He created because He is the master.

In this I got to know that nothing happens under the sun that God is caught unaware but rather

He allows all things to happen just as He wishes, He is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscience,

all loving and so on. Therefore whether to a believer or non-believer He knows because He is

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sovereign. To the believer we know that all things work together for the good of those who love

Him ( Romans 8:28 ) and by this, he does not mean only good, only bad but all things so

therefore we should not be discouraged as believers.

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 CONCLUSION.

In conclusion, I only want to take this opportunity to thank my friends, pastors, lecturers and the

entire staff of the KAG EAST UNIVERSITY for the wonderful work God has used then as a

team to impact my life to change for the purpose of fulfilling the great commission. I am really

grateful for the health and wonderful time that I have had in this place which has been used to

shape me to be a servant leader whom God wants me to be. I will entirely be grateful to be back

in this place when God has lifted so many other church leaders from this very place for the glory

and honor of His name.