FPFK Brief History

Mission work in the Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya was pioneered in 1955 when Missionaries Arvid and Gunborg Bustgaad from Norway started evangelism work at Thessalia near Muhoroni. Missionary Bustgaad arrived in Mombasa by ship in a trip that took a month around Africa through the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. When in Mombasa, he asked for the direction to Kenya. A Finish Missionary by name Kusmin and working with the Finish Free Mission picked him and brought him to Koru, near Muhoroni.Since there was no registered Norwegian mission at the time, Arvid and Gunborg Bustgaad came in as visitors with the Finish Foreign Missionaries and stayed with them for about a month at Koru, near Muhoroni.Read more

About FPFK

The Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (FPFK) is an evangelical church registered in Kenya. It operates in 21 regions in Kenya and has over 500 churches with a combined membership of over 140,000. FPFK was established independently by the Norwegian and Swedish missionaries in the 1950s and 1960s respectively. The missionaries from the two Scandinavian countries operated independent of each other until 1997 when their operations were merged and FPFK as a Kenyan national church came into being. FPFK plays an important role in the civil society and is an active member of Evangelical Alliance of Kenya (EAK), an umbrella body for Pentecostal churches in Kenya. Our vision is to expand our national reach and continue to enrich the lives of our members and of communities where we operates both spiritually and physically. Nationally, FPFK is headed by a national board, which is the principal policy making body. A national secretariat headed by the General Secretary who is also the secretary to the National board is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the church at the national level. The regional councils are responsible for managing and coordinating the activities of the churches in the 19 regions.

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In addition FPFK runs specialised programs such as the HIV/AIDS program and humanitarian relief projects funded by diverse financial partners such as PMU Interlife, Sweden and PYM Aid, Norway the projects which are managed by a professional staff based at its national and regional offices.