Evangelism may be done in many ways, most common is via preaching and proclaiming religious beliefs by word of mouth and by sharing through outreach programmes, charity, and social events.
However, a church in Murang'a County stands out for the artwork that plasters its walls.
The ACK St James All Martyrs Memorial church has paintings narrating the life of Jesus Christ, throwing into the mix Kenya's cultural, historical and religious context, as reported by Daily Nation.
As revealed in the book Murang'a Murals by Harold F Miller, in 1956, at the Climax of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya, the church commissioned Elimo Njau, a young Christian artist to transcribe the life of Jesus into art.
Interestingly, Njau did about 10 paintings from the life of Jesus, all in a traditional Kikuyu setup. From His birth, baptism, crucifixion, burial, the journey to Emmaus, the last supper, the ascension, prayer on Mount Olives to the agony in the garden.
According to the local newspaper, the church's officials believed that the paintings were based on Agikuyu tradition in a bid to enable converts to conceptualise the teachings of Christ.
Another interesting feat of the Murang'a mural, unlike other paintings that portray Jesus as a caucasian man, He is painted as a man of African descent.
Paintings show Christ in traditional clothes that were donned by the Agikuyu community. On the wall sits a mural of men herding sheep and another of Jesus' baptism at Chania Falls.
The mural on the birth of Jesus is evident of a woman with a baby in a traditional hut and another carrying a kiondo, traditional basket.
In the last supper mural, Jesus can be seen using a traditional spoon, a ciihiru to serve his disciples.
It is believed that the missionaries used the murals to appeal to the state of mind of the locals, especially for the fact that Murang'a was at the center of the Mau Mau's operations, and they defied the missionaries.
The murals simplified biblical teachings.
In an interview with the daily nation, ACK Mount Kenya Central Diocese director of communications Keneth Kimani stated that the method made it easy for te missionaries to preach and spread the gospel.
"It is true that the region was dominated by people who valued their culture and that is why it was the best idea to have the murals drawn in the Agikuyu context so that Christians could understand the word of God in a simple manner, using an environment that they undrstood," Kimani stated.
The church today boasts in excess of 1500 congregants.
