NAIROBI GREAT COMMISSION SCHOOL (NGCS)

WHAT I CAN ASCERTAIN FROM THE ACCOUNTANT/FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR’S OFFICE

 

Hello to you all!

 

My name is John Githige, I am married to Lilian Wamweru, we are blessed with two daughters namely; Bancy and Beverly.  I remain thankful to God for His abundance blessings.

I joined NGCS back in the year 2012, this is my nineth year in service. I appreciate this God given opportunity to serve in Christ’s Kingdom.

Since joining NGCS, I have seen the school admit many students coming from different back grounds with diverse needs, of which some are financial while others are more of psychosocial needs.

Nevertheless, we thank God who has used our staff team and many other stakeholders; continue to diligently serve in this noble calling ministry.

Additionally, we can’t go out without mention of our various Churches both locally and abroad mainly in the United States who have come out to partner with NGCS.

We also acknowledge Organizations and Individuals who have also extended their assistance in prayers and financial support which has enabled continuity for NGCS serving in God’s Kingdom.

Consequent to the partnership with our various partners & stakeholders, NGCS has continued to roll out graduands for the last thirty years. The impact of NGCS to the community and more also to the Church of Christ family has been phenomenal.

Many of our graduands are making a commendable impact out there in different sectors offering service to the communities around them, be it in Church Ministry through planting of more churches, education field, empowering the less privileged and broken families.  Some have ventured into medical and sanitization sector in rural villages and urban slums. This is just to mention few examples but all in all, we acknowledge the immense contribution NGCS has made which comes as an encouragement and a consequent challenge for us to strive even more.

As the staff in charge of finances let me point out that on behalf of NGCS we appreciate our partners who have come out to assist the institution in realizing its clarion call: The Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20) through their kind generosity in financial support.

1.       On our part as NGCS we continuously target to raise finances locally through available streams of revenue such as fees collection from our students and coming up with income generating projects, an example: we supply water to a few neighbors from our School Borehole.

2.       One of our greatest struggles has been realizing the fees from our students due to the fact that majority of them come from very humble family and church backgrounds, where poverty cases are predominant.  As a result, the projected target of fees collection is hardly met.

3.       As a school we juggle around with the finances given by our partners, realized fees collected together with what has been raised from the income generating streams.

4.       Consequently, as The Finance Administrator I find myself running an Accounts’ Office with a budget deficit. Therefore, am compelled to readjust and address only the vital budget lines and postpone some of the school activities up to when funds are available. E.g.  When our students are on semester holiday break our operationally expenses come down marginally, and therefore to some extent the budget deficit is cushioned with the regular incoming financial support. However, this approach has not been very much successful. Another aspect which has tremendously helped in solving the budget constrain is one-time ad hoc support from well-wishing organizations and individuals. These has been a reprieve in many instances.

5.       NGCS has endeared to be accountable with the availed resources. Through the NGCS Board, accountability measures are well in place and we always engage our partners with regular financial reports and overseeing that accountability systems remain in place. We also carry out external annual audit and comply with the generally accepted accounting standards. As a trained Certified Public Accountant (CPA) I have been able to accordingly advise and ensure NGCS maintains a solid and sound finance office.

As I conclude I thank God who has enabled our various partners in walking with us through. We encourage you our dear partners to continue praying for NGCS as you are an integral partner looking back since the inception and establishment of NGCS.

I also would like to encourage more Organizations, Churches and Individuals to pray with us and any in kind assistance to NGCS will be much welcome.

We are currently targeting to raise funds to modify our office block which we inherited from our founding missionaries. The current office block was essentially a residential bungalow house which we intend to convert it to a one storey building. By so doing, we target to create more classroom space for training our students. We have shared our projected budget with our current partners as we look forward to engage more partners to this noble cause.

Thank you all in Christ!

NGCS Finance Office:

 John Githige