About Us - Kahawa Media

we are

Kahawa Media is a Christian organization dedicated to expanding the Kingdom of God. Our missionaries have been actively engaged in leadership training, evangelism, and discipleship in partnership with local ministries since 1991. By creating and deploying Christian media products we are able to extend the impact of the gospel message throughout East Africa.

Vision

We envision Christians growing in every culture and redeeming every sector of society.

Mission

We are Discipling Cultures through Media.

AIM

We aim to equip Christians with a Biblical worldview, empowering them to be competent and confident facilitators of community transformation.

OUR TEAM

Rev. Jacob Mills

Missionary - Executive Director

As Executive Director, Rev. Jacob Mills is committed to seeking and following God’s plan to spread the flavour of Jesus Christ across East Africa. He and his wife, Kimberly, met at Rift Valley Academy in Kenya (class of ’95), and have been full-time missionaries in East Africa since 2009. He is a gifted teacher who is happiest when teaching others about their identity and calling in the Kingdom of God. He loves to show visitors the amazing people and places in the region, and to tell them how God is mobilizing African churches as a mighty force for global missions.

Solomon Nabie Bwome

Director

Married to Ruth Nabie with five adult children, Solomon serves as a director of Kahawa Media with his wisdom and rich experience. Solomon is the Mission Director and Founder of lnterchristian Fellowships' Evangelical Mission (lcFEM-Mission). Among other organizations, he is a member of: Kimilili and Bungoma North Sub-county Probation Case Committee; Micah Network International and National Committee for Community Service Orders. He also, chaired Agricultural Farm Inputs Support Program for Bungoma county. Solomon holds Recognition as a USAID Champion for Change.

Samuil Stoyanov

Missionary - Director

Sami is an award-winning visual artist who moved to East Africa in 2016 together with his wife Nikki as missionaries with Pamoja Ministries. He has been a director in Kahawa Media since 2021. Sami is passionate about teaching children and youth about art and through it to know God better, and to develop their own character and talents. Sami also enjoys encouraging teachers to be brave and creative in their daily practice by using what is around them as material for crafts and as a means to make object lessons.

Rev. Sig Feser, PhD

Missionary - Founder

Sig and Joy are the founders of the ministry which started as Pamoja Ministries in Tanzania and is currently Kahawa Media in Kenya. Besides being part of the management team, Sig’s main contribution is media production for Christian ministry (discipling cultures through media). He has produced books for church leaders in East Africa, created an animation for children, a full-feature Swahili movie for youth, and a TV series for children. In addition, he is helping with packaging the ministry’s leadership literature as a mobile phone app for church leaders of many countries and languages.

Joy Feser

Missionary - Founder

Joy and Sig founded Pamoja Ministries in Tanzania over 30 years ago. Joy helps Kahawa Media as we send thousands of copies of The Shepherd’s Staff books to church leaders. She also helps write curriculums for Sunday Schools and their teachers.

Mary Mwende Mutuku Kagondu

Executive Secretary

Mary is married to Joseph who is a carpenter. They live in Limuru, Kenya (not in Nazareth) where their son and daughter are in school. She is glad to work for Kahawa Media, because it has a very important role in the Kingdom and she knows most of the team from their time in Tanzania. Some people can find administrative work frustrating and dealing with documentation overwhelming, but she loves it. Apart from her job in Kahawa, she is the East African Regional Director of Vision International University and gladly serves as a deacon in her local church.

Kim Mills

Volunteer

Kimberly has been a missionary since 2009. She is an American who grew up in Madagascar and Kenya as the child of missionaries. Kim graduated from high school in Kenya with her future husband, Jacob. They were married in December of 1999 in the United States, entered full time ministry in 2007, and became missionaries to Tanzania in 2009. Kim lives in Limuru, Kenya with her husband, Jacob, and their son, James.

Chege Waweru

Executive Liaison

Chege Waweru is a Christian leader, trainer, and workshop speaker who is passionate about equipping Christian leaders and pastors to be effective in responding to the Great Commission. He has extensive experience in training, missions, and networking. He is currently the national coordinator for Lighthouse Outreaches and has a significant role in the operations of Kahawa Media. He lives in Limuru, Kenya with his wife and three sons.

Nikki Atanasova

Missionary

Nikki is a missionary from Bulgaria who works in the Children's Ministry Department of Kahawa Media. She loves children and believes that every child seeks God and has questions about the meaning of life. This motivates Nikki to do her best to reach children and youth with the good news. Nikki and her husband Samuil have a unique call to be "God's paintbrushes" which add color and help beautify what God is building - His temple not made by hand.

Ndelilio Daniel Nnko

Manager Pamoja Ministries

Ndelilio has worked for Pamoja Ministries, (the main partner of Kahawa Media) since 1995. He is the office manager and in this role communicates with hundreds of church leaders regarding the resources Kahawa Media is providing - especially The Shepherd's Staff book. Ndelilio is a pastor in his local church. He is a graduate of Kilimanjaro Christian College in Moshi, Tanzania. He and his wife Anna have four children.

Martina Hhando Isaay

Children's work - Pamoja Ministries

Martina, though no longer a youth, still has a youthful heart. She loves children and is passionate for Jesus to become a personal friend of each and every child in East Africa. As part of the Pamoja team for over 15 years, she has featured in children's films, and worked hard to gain experience and knowledge. She currently conducts seminars for Sunday School Teachers and distributes Biblia katika Vitendo, and leads a weekly Kid's Club which she founded in 2018 with Sami and Nikki.

Preygod Moshi

Printshop Pamoja Ministries

Preygod has been working at Pamoja Ministries since 2014. His job is to run the printshop where Christian educational materials - brochures, books, and notebooks are printed. His mother named him Preygod because she wanted P (as his friends call him), to be a church servant. This fact gently impels him to put all his abilities into his tasks at the printshop. In his free time P performs as a DJ. Preygod's favorite foods are chapati and maharage (beans).

media creation

Script Writing

Music Videos

TV Series

Book Production

Real Life Stories

Kahawa Media has been blessed with a team of extremely creative people who generate ideas for new ministry products every week. Of course, we do not have the time, resources or people to start a new project every week, and so we ask:

What’s the issue?
What does the Bible say is the answer?
Who’s the audience, and what do they like?
Can we make something that will be relevant to the audience, and convey the Biblical answer to this issue?
Can it be made affordably?
If we made it, could we deploy it in an impactful way?

By answering these questions, we can quickly determine if an idea should go on the board for future consideration. With a lot of prayer, we then determine which new projects to undertake as existing projects move from creation into distribution.

In all of our media products, we strive to present the gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that is easily understood by the target audience. Our media products call people to take actions that will bring fruit in the kingdom of God. Evangelism tools invite non-Christians to accept Christ, discipleship tools encourage believers to grow, and missions tools equip churches to spread the good news to the ends of the earth.

Our History

Over the decades that this ministry has been active in East Africa, we have been called by several different names. Our current name, Kahawa Media, is only the most recent. Looking back at the different names that we’ve had, we can clearly see how God has blessed us at each stage, and how He has expanded our vision and increased the reach of the ministry.

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Testimonials

Emmanuel Makolo

LGM Director - Africa

You can call me Manu. I have been involved in outreach ministries since 1995 and have served as an outreach pastor for over ten years. I have been involved with Global Pathway training that is offered by Pamoja Ministries and now Kahawa Media since 2019. Global Pathway is simple and practical for any church to use as a tool to motivate the leadership and congregants to take the good news to all. Many people in Africa think that taking the good news to others is a preserve of the “mzungu” (Swahili: white man). Through Global Pathway, many have seen this error. I have had the privilege of conducting Global Pathway trainings with Jacob Mills and I have seen people realize that they misread scripture and how they depended on man rather than being obedient to God’s command to “go!” It has been a pleasure to serve alongside Kahawa Media and have seen many pastors benefit from their books and other print material like Fimbo ya mchungaji which is "a hot cake" among the local pastors. I would like to thank all the sponsors and supporters of Kahawa Media for being part of God’s work.

Bishop Julius Rukyaa

Chairman, Habari Maalum Media

I’ve been using another thing. It’s incredible. It’s this. It’s the Action Bible… I went through their offices and suddenly I was shown this book and it’s attractive but when you look inside I saw few words but you get the story, and when I got it I went and started working with a guy who’s doing outreach in an underground movement of Muslims and I started to use it. I’ve used it at home, I’ve used it at church, I’ve used it in small groups… So this is an incredible book for students.

Irene Masika

Coordinator, Interchristian Felowship Evangelical Mission

IcEM is partnering with Kahawa Media in doing a Children workers/minister seminar called Teaching God’s Way. We did it in eight areas of Bungoma county and we have equipped participants with the necessary knowledge, skills and tools:

High regard, honor and dignity for the children’s ministry. They now understand that it is service to God himself and opportunity to model Jesus as the master teacher.
Some participants received a conviction and a burden for the ministry and hence a challenge to begin. Those already in service were too challenged to improve.
The team spirit was cultivated.
The workers/ministers realize they are role models to the children and hence challenged to live rightly.
They have become active initiators and drivers of their own churches.
The workers have become creative in teaching children using object lessons for better understanding and application of God's word.
They are able to recycle waste materials for The Kingdom purposes.

Joyce Temu

Deputy Chief Executive Officer,
VisionFund Tanzania

Since VisionFund Tanzania started we were looking for a partner who could help us develop a financial literacy training tool. We got Pamoja Ministries, who did an excellent job in designing a training tool that combines the local context and excellent training material.

Martina Hando

Children’s Ministry Overseer,
TAG Arusha Region

Before I joined, I was afraid of doing children’s ministry, but since I’ve been here they have taught me many things including how to make movies for children. Now my fear is gone so now I’m a teacher of children and an overseer for children’s ministry.

Bishop John Shumbusho

Zion City Church, Arusha
Eastwind Christian Outreaches

We highly recommend them as an effective ministry that helps to raise leaders in Tanzania, and in many other countries, because people who are trained here are not confined to Tanzania alone. In the past year, we had more than 25 nationalities here in this church. The training they got through this partnership is now being effective in other countries. I would like many more people to support this ministry.

Anna Kyungay

Pastor, Patandi Church,
Tanzania Assemblies of God

My husband and I met this ministry many years ago and we partnered in making their film, Nipe Jibu. I was the Grandmother. I love them — it’s a ministry full of my friends! They help those at the top, and it helps those at the bottom a lot. So this ministry meets up with the needs of people — spiritually and physically. I’m really excited in our church ministry, when I see that the teachers are teaching well because it shows me that they are caring for the children. And I rejoice about this ministry.

Maliaki Shaushi

Coordinator, MAPED

They are doing great things in media, and even in Maasailand they have been able to help with their knowledge to lift the ability of the Maasai to understand and they’ve enabled the Maasai to get an education.

Bishop Désiré Songe

Lubumbashi, DRC

Hello people of God. There is a book [The Shepherd’s Staff / La Houlette du Berger] that really consoled me since I read it, also several others who received it were consoled, especially in my region of upper Katanga Mbuji-Mayi. Soon we are going to send it to Kinshasa because of a lot of demand that comes to us from the other side. They are in need of a lot of books. Our English-speaking brothers have a lot of books, and we say thank you to the [World] MAP ministry for having sent us this large library [in one book] which includes all the exegesis, the spiritual, many clear explanations. The Lord Jesus Christ bless everyone that works so that this help is not missing from our place. It is a gift from heaven.