Jerry and Nancy Novak

Missionaries to Kenya

I started attending Cleveland Baptist Church as a boy and at age 18 received Christ as my Savior while reading Romans 10:9-13 in my bedroom. After being baptized, God called me into full time service the same year and He led me to attend Bible College at BBC in Springfield, Missouri. After arriving at school I felt impressed to take the Missions course.

Nancy was saved as a girl at age eight in Church camp and afterwards faithfully attended Bible Baptist Church in Lawrence, Kansas where she was baptized. The Lord spoke to Nancy about being a foreign Missionary as a young person. Romans 12:1. In 1974 Nancy also felt God leading her to attend College at BBC.

Nancy and I had been attending the same Church in Springfield and enrolled in almost the same classes at College before we met. Through a Church activity we met and God led us to be married the following year.

We graduated together in 1977. Afterwards we continued to work in different ministries at our church in Springfield. We believed that God was leading us to work in a local church full time to serve our Missionary internship. Through a friend we met the pastor of Kishwaukee Baptist Church in Rockford, Illinois in 1978. The same year we went to work in the church and the school of Kishwaukee. While we were serving at Kishwaukee we met another couple already planning to go to Kenya. God used their testimonies to impress us and He called us to go to Kenya also.

In 1980 we were approved to be Missionaries to Kenya with the BBFI. We started our deputation and then finally arrived in Kenya for the first time in 1982.

We trust that these testimonies will be a blessing and encouragement to who ever would read them. May the Lord bless you. Matthew 28:18-20.

Update on our work ...

Last April 2002 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our arrival in Kenya as missionaries. It has been an exciting and rewarding journey as we have seen God at work in changing lives through His Word.

The Work is the Lord’s, we are just His tools. Throughout our time here, God has used us to start 5 churches, and train the leaders and lay-people of those churches. Many have come to know the Lord as Savior of their lives. Our heart’s desire and purpose is to impress upon any person we come in contact with the message and power of the Word of God.

For an update on our family ...

They have grown up in a flash right before our eyes! Holly was four years old and Nathan was 2 years old when we arrived here. Now Holly is teaching in a Christian school on the Island of Guam. She is teaching high school History and Spanish, and helping to coach some in sports. This is her first year teaching, and she is very excited with the work God has given her.

Nathan is here in Kenya with us for the time being, and he has been a great blessing to us and many others. He has a small carpentry workshop behind our house, and has made many beautiful things for us and other missionaries. he helps at church by playing his guitar in our services. We praise God for our children.

Thank you so much for your interest and concern in our lives.

In Christ,
Jerry & Nancy Novak
Missionaries to Kenya