Elections Results

Dear All:

Christian greetings and peace.

The African Fellowship met on Friday, February 18 2011 for two agendas:
[1]  to fellowship and
[2] to choose the new Fellowship leaders for the 2011/2012 academic year.

The environment was conducive for fellowship and interactions and we had variety of food and time to catch up and share recent experiences and merriments for the Christmas holidays. From the look of things it is like everybody had some travels to make either back to our mother land, Africa or across the US. It was a great time. Children and young adults were released to go and do their business as the main agenda of the day was rolled out.

The day's Returning Officer, Matthew called the meeting in order and did some exhortation before the elections could begin. The verbatim version of the constitution was unfolded and each member present ascended to the same. The Returning officer ensured that from the word go, the electorate understood every step of the electioneering process. Since these were going to be a secret ballot exercise, the ballot boxes were ensured to be free and empty. This is confirmed. Proposals to elect the President of the fellowship were called. Members proposed names of those present as well those absent pegged on their consent. After a series of competitive proposals and secondment, the following were elected to lead and guide our African Fellowship:
1] President: Rev'd David Ntogonya
2] Secretary: Rev'd Raymond Muniss
3] Treasurer: Mrs. Esther Achi [will confirm]. 
Since Matthew had to leave to attend to other matters, I was asked to conclude the elections. The whole election process was a wonderful exercise filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Congratulations to our new leaders and thank you to the outgoing leadership. The handing over exercise will be in April 2011. When all is said and done, it is my humble submission that the African Fellowship is looked upon in this Institution for inspiration and motivation and so I appeal to all of us to avail ourselves to live to the expectations of many around us. Your guess is as good as mine that it has been said over and over again, that the Church is growing greatly in Africa and rightly so and so we need to demonstrate this blessing of the Lord. Please accept this simple and summary report for this "hot seat" of the Returning Officer! It is one thing to elect leaders into office and it is another to surround them with support.

God bless us all and let us share Acts 17:28 - ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.

Faithfully

Rev'd Paul Korir