STONE HAUS INSTRUCTION AKM.7.4. DECEMBER 1, 2025. Faith Culture.

MAASAI PARTNERSHIPS. Pages: 6.

INDEX:

  1. Maasai Mission Partnership, Fulfilling the Great Commission
  2. Required Collaboration, Our Lord’s Mandate to Disciple the Maasai Tribe
  3. Spiritual Unity, We Have the Mind of Christ
  4. Prayer and Action, God’s Power for the Maasai Mission
  5. Divine Interventions, Signs and Wonders Affirming Reception of the Gospel
  6. God’s Power and Compassion, The Love of Christ to the Maasai Tribe

Maasai Mission Partnership

Fulfilling the Great Commission

The Lord has given the foundation for the Maasai mission. The mission is rooted in the Great Commission, where Jesus, as recorded in Matthew 28:19-20, has commanded us saying, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.”

The people of the Maasai tribe are included in “all the nations.” They are to be reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and are to be made His disciples, to the glory of God. For this cause, StoneHaus Mission invites members of the body of Christ to enter into partnership for the salvation of the people of the Maasai tribe. Every contribution of each mission partner, made in the Spirit of unity and collaboration, is meaningful and effective for the Maasai tribe to receive divine interventions and demonstrations of the love of Christ in its various forms.

Mission partners are counted upon to faithfully contribute to the Lord’s commission. By their faithfulness, mission partners prove our Lord’s promise true, where He has said, “lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20). Our confidence in the Lord’s presence is for blessed partnerships, with joined members of the body of Christ having their heart and mind made ready in Him; prepared for yielding a great harvest of souls from among the Maasai tribe, by God’s grace and mercy, and to His glory. Amen.

Required Collaboration

Our Lord’s Mandate to Disciple the Maasai Tribe

While meeting the mandate to disciple the Maasai tribe, baptizing them and teaching them to observe all of the Lord’s commands, it is also imperative that each mission partner would heed the Holy Spirit, who speaking through the Apostle Paul in Romans 2:21 says, “You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself?”

In self-teaching, let each partner remember how Jesus Christ summarized the commandments of God saying, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” As God calls us to demonstrate our love for Him by loving our fellow man, each partner in the Maasai mission should understand that while reaching the Maasai tribe, God expects those in mission partnership to have the Spirit of collaboration in mutual submission, “giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:20). By honoring God with gratitude for collaborative contributions, partners secure mission success.

The Spirit of collaboration is not optional for Maasai mission partners. Collaboration is the life of the mission. The work of God is accomplished by members of Christ’s body working together, and by the generosity of each member who is joined to the cause of reaching the Maasai tribe for Christ. Mission success requires each partner to freely receive and administer the grace of God in its various forms, for the good of the Maasai tribe.

Mission partners are charged with being “kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another” (Romans 12:10), while “giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God” (Ephesians 5:21). The Maasai tribe must learn to function together in a collaborative Christian faith community. Faithful mission partners provide the example. As the Lord has promised in Matthew 28:20, His presence is with those who collaborate for His sake. Our Lord requires collaboration from each mission partner, “that you may inherit a blessing” (1 Peter 3:9).

Spiritual Unity

We Have the Mind of Christ

Partnership in the Maasai mission is “fellowship of the Spirit” (Philippians 2:1). True fellowship comes from unity in the Spirit, “being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind” (Philippians 2:2). The love, accord, and mind of unity is that of Christ, who did nothing “through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind” esteemed others better than Himself (Philippians 2:2). Even to the extent of going to Calvary for the salvation of the world. 

Mission partners are not to look out only for their own interests in the Maasai mission, “but also for the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4). They are to collaborate in the love, accord, and mind of Christ. God has given the Holy Spirit, “that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God” (1 Corinthians 2:12). We know the Maasai tribe has been purchased by the blood of Christ. We also know that along with the Christian brotherhood of mission partners, an inheritance is kept for us in Christ Jesus from among the Maasai tribe. 

Indeed, “we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). In being like-minded with Christ exists the Spiritual unity necessary for fulfilling the Great Commission to the Maasai tribe. The Holy Spirit speaking through the Apostle Paul in Philippians 2:5 says to every Maasai mission partner, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

Prayer and Action

God’s Power for the Maasai Mission

Mission partners have been given great encouragement in God’s Word. The entire book of Acts speaks of the prayers and actions of the early Apostles, with demonstrations of God’s power as they embarked in fulfilling the Great Commission. 

Likewise, God’s power for the Maasai mission is made available to every mission partner, as each commits to prayer and action. We can know God is with us as we live to honor Him. The promise, of having God present in the person of the Holy Spirit, is for all generations, to “as many as the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:39). As each partner contributes to the mission, we can know our prayers and actions, aligned with the Great Commission, have God’s approval. If ever anything could be known to be God’s will, it is the Great Commission and everything necessary to fulfill it. “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him” (1 John 5:14-15). For our Lord has said, “whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive” (Matthew 21:22). 

“He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 19:23). Therefore, let all partners commit each contribution to the Maasai mission to mindful prayer accompanied with appropriate action, and to faith commensurate to our Lord’s promise in Matthew 28:20. For He will prove to be present with each person.

Divine Interventions

Signs and Wonders Affirming Reception of the Gospel

It is God who joins mission partners to the good work of building up the Maasai church. The focus of the Maasai mission is to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Maasai tribe; “so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will” (Hebrews 2:3-4).

God first manifested His divine interventions, in endorsement of the good news of the kingdom of God, through the earthly ministry of our Lord. The endorsement came in the form of miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit in the lives of those who received the preaching of the kingdom of God. God did the same in the ministry of the early Apostles. He has also continued, through divine interventions, to endorse the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the history of the church. So we are confident that God will be faithful to continue, according to His own will, to affirm the reception of the gospel among the people of the Maasai tribe.

Included in the works of God on man’s behalf through  Jesus Christ, who “is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8), are physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. There is also the casting out of evil spirits, to the outcome of the Maasai people in accordance with Ephesians 4:23-24 being renewed in the spirit of their mind, and that they would “put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”

The Maasai mission focuses on divine interventions, which come through prayers and actions lined up with the Great Commission. The loving contributions of mission partners, whether in word or deed, bring calm to the Maasai people in the midst of storms, and empower them to walk high above their circumstances. God works faithfully on behalf of mission partners who avail themselves to the good work of the mission; the Holy Spirit bestowing Spiritual gifts upon them, and even working miracles through them. He does this for the good of the Maasai tribe and to His glory, as they receive the kingdom of God by faith in Jesus Christ.

God’s Power and Compassion

The Love of Christ to the Maasai Tribe

In accordance with John 3:16-17, we know and affirm that God so loved the Maasai tribe that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever among the Maasai people believes in Him should have everlasting life. For God sent His Son for the Maasai people, that they through Him might not perish but be saved. 

Therefore, it is fitting for Maasai mission partners to respond to the Great Commission with a heart of hopeful expectation, as we reach the Maasai tribe with demonstrations of God’s power and compassion, providing comfort and restoration to those in need. By reflecting the love of Christ to the Maasai tribe with all forms of healing, mission partners collaborate to build up and support the members of the body of Christ who are among them.

We have great joy and consolation in the love of our mission partners, because mission partners refresh the hearts of Maasai believers in Christ, and “through the proof of this ministry, they (Maasai believers) glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men” (2 Corinthians 9:13).

Rev. Oscar Rivera, StoneHaus Mission

General Overseer, Gentry, Arkansas, USA