Some rooms make the Gospel feel costly to speak. In 2025, Haggai Leader Evans Saisi preached in one of them.

It was a women’s prison in Kenya, a place seemingly distant from the presence of God, but full of women desperate for hope. He spoke to about 100 prisoners, and by God’s grace, 21 gave their lives to Christ. No place or person is too far gone. 

Evans is a senior pastor in Kenya. His days are given to missions, church planting, and pastoral work. After he attended the Haggai Leader Experience in 2025, his burden for the unreached increased and his personal zeal for the Gospel and making the name of Jesus known, burned all the more. 

Being in vocational ministry, his eyes are opened to the evils around him that are creating significant hurdles to the Gospel going forward. Hurdles like corruption, compromise from believers, crime and violence, and drug abuse. But Evans has been faithful in his pursuit for the lost. 

He visited a church in the interior of Burundi. It was a newer church, about three years old, and had 220 members. After he presented the Gospel, he reported that 71 people received salvation. You never know how God is going to move in people’s lives through one obedient ‘yes’. 

The same year, in 2025, he led the third session of a non-formal training he calls E2E. The session drew in 130 people, leaders, and members of his congregation. They left feeling excited and inspired to reach their families, community, and the nation. Passion is contagious, and Evans’ passion to reach the nations was passed to those who were there and will extend beyond his reach. 

Evans also finds a way to reach the lost through ordinary activities. Children hear the Gospel through sports, in a place where they are already willing to go. Weddings and other gatherings bring together trusted friends and neighbors, creating natural opportunities to share Christ and the Gospel.

And when practical needs like schooling, food, or clothing become apparent, he responds to them as an essential expression of the Gospel he proclaims.

It’s not about the number of salvations, or the amount of places he’s asked to speak at, it’s about God choosing to use people who have surrendered hearts towards his will. 

Since the Haggai Leader Experience, his scope of work has widened. Evans has overseen the planting of five new churches in different counties of Kenya. He has taken part in Haggai National Seminars and in the third Haggai Africa Summit in Johannesburg, where leaders from 14 nations were present.

Under all of it is the hope he came home carrying back in 2025. A zeal for a Gospel that walks into hard situations boldly, and still sends ordinary leaders back out to equip someone else.

written by Leah Spivak