Ministry Update- November 28, 2025

Dear Partners,

As promised, the following is a more detailed update. 

Currently in Bissil, the Ministry is conducting their annual conference, running through much of the month of November. I have attached some of the first batch of pictures sent to us. This Annual Conference has become an important part of the Ministry, attracting Pastors, Churches, and Christian Organizations from hundreds of miles in all directions. They have to put up a large revival-style tent, as the attendance has outgrown the sanctuary of the Bissil headquarters.

This year, the Ministry has extended into Uganda. It has been well-received and Daniel has made a decision to spend an extended period of time cultivating and helping churches in the areas they are covering. They have also spent time in Tanzania, but have run into some difficulties due to Muslim control in the areas where Maasai tribes are located. For the first time in the Ministry, we recognize the original mission has changed slightly as we are now reaching out to tribes that are not Maasai.tTe intent of spreading the gospel message is still central, and Bill and I support this change wholeheartedly. As long as doors are opened for Daniel and his pastors, we will continue to support their missionary work, wherever the Holy Spirit leads them.

For those of you that are not aware, Bill has experienced some health issues this past summer and is still dealing with one of them. He suffered a minor stroke this summer, but made a complete recovery, only experiencing minor issues for a while. Luckily, overall, he is experiencing no real lasting effects. His wife Jan, suffered a fall this summer, and she also has made a full recovery. She remains busy with family and church activity as if nothing happened. Bill is now dealing with another issue, but this is not immediately life threatening. Your prayers for him are most welcome, as I would like to have him around for a few more years, Lord willing!!!!

I would also like you to keep Ken and Carol Yockey and their entire family in your prayers. Carol has ongoing health issues and the last few months have been very challenging for the family. 

My wife, Robin, has been dealing with hearing loss, possibly caused by a severe case of TMJ. Lifting her up in prayer is also much appreciated.

I can't stress enough how much this Ministry believes in the power of prayer. When you consider the impact this Ministry has had on the advancement of the Gospel, and with very few resources, compared with many other Mission Outreaches, it is such a sign to me of the power of prayer!

Thessalonians 5:16-18.

Our reports from Kenya are encouraging regarding the overall physical health of the pastors, their families, the Ministry, and the political climate. Everything has been positive over the last year and we are so thankful that the Lord has blessed them. We encourage you to continue to lift them up in prayer as well. 

Our updated Website is now up and running, Resourcing Ministry Partners. We would like to thank Dominic W. Costanzo, Dom's grandson for his work on this project. Our goal is to continue to update and add more content in the coming year. We are also looking at avenues for credit card donations online, but that is still something that is a bit out in the future. If we begin to get more attention on the internet, we will pursue this more vigorously. 

Bill and I continue to meet weekly and we talk to Daniel during many of those meetings. We are very happy with his progression in leadership. We feel that the investment in vehicles this past year has been a positive for the outreach and we are thankful that the Ministry has been blessed without any emergency needs, which has helped the financial situation for 2025. 

The financial situation has been stable. We did lose the support of one church, (actually the church that the Churches in Kenya are registered under). We did connect with another Church sponsor to replace them. Once again, the Lord is keeping tabs it seems! We do want to emphasize that we have only ever had two Church sponsors, this Ministry has always been driven by you, the individual partners and we believe the Lord will continue to provide for this Ministry as he sees its needs, until the Lord returns.

Speaking of the Lord's Return, I have to say that one is hard pressed to deny that the world is moving ever closer to what the Bible reveals to us in prophecy. Many seem to be missing what is happening at breathtaking speed! There has been a worldwide movement towards peace with Israel existing for the first time in a peaceful situation! AI is here to stay, and we seem to be moving towards a time of prosperity that will take your breath away. Perhaps a literal Babylon is returning, seemingly alluded to throughout Scripture, to be destroyed suddenly and permanently With the ongoing possibility of lasting Middle East peace this scenario seems very reasonable. And all the while, the underlying and growing Anti-Semitism continues to pop-up worldwide.  Everything is all being set in motion and, although short lived, all are required to happen before the tribulation period. These events are mentioned in Scripture (Ezekiel 38:11, Daniel 12:4, Matthew Chapters 24-25, Mark Chapter 13, Luke 21: 5-36, and the whole of Revelation). Everything the Bible has foretold is actually taking place and understanding of these events is being opened up to Christians. The study of End Times Prophecy really began to take hold after Israel became a nation in 1948 and especially when Jerusalem once again became Israel's capital in 1980. The original group of scholars that began to study this have, for the most part, been called home, making many rethink our understanding.  But with closer observation, we can see that the reality is upon us. How long, only the Father knows, but our Ministry and its mission is just a wonderful example of all of this actually, and I mean ACTUALLY. being fulfilled! As we continue to gain knowledge, we continue to understand the awesome wonder of God, in Nature, the Universe, and Society. The Bible becomes easier to follow and understand, its central and literal Truth continues to be revealed to us. As hard as it is for many in the world to accept, Jesus' words continue to ring true," I am the way and the truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father, but through me." ( John 14:6 ) 

How wonderful and blessed we are to be Born Again! and following the One and Only! 

Amen.

I hope that everyone and your extended families have a joyous and blessed Christmas.

Yours in Christ,

Dino Costanzo

Dear Partners,

I want to share with you all some very enlightening news. After a couple of years of thought and working through various aspects of our web site, we are now able to bring you an interactive map with pictures and direct coordinates of all of the Church sites that your partnership has helped bring about. We have 201 church sites currently and approximately 160 can now be found on the interactive map linked to our web site Resourcing Ministry Partners Inc. You can also Google Resourcing Ministry Partners Inc. and click and be directed to the site. To find the map, click on Menu in the upper right, then Regions and Pastors, finally click on FEFC Church Map. A small map of Kenya will be displayed. To enlarge it, just click on the map itself. You will be able to scroll in and out of the map, moving in every direction. You will be able to locate nearly every church we have. Each church is marked with an orange cross. As you scroll in, a gray cross will appear near the orange cross. If you click on that, you will see photos taken in that Church's location. 

We are in the process of loading each individual Church up on the website as well. Each Church location will have a picture of the Physical Church, the Pastor and their Family. We estimate that we will have all of this completed, as well as a complete update of the site, by early November, 2024. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy getting familiar with the interactive map. Those that are familiar with Google maps will have no trouble. Those new to Google maps, it will take some time, but it is well worth it! You can literally scroll close up to the location and see the rooftops and surrounding landscape of the Church locations. That in addition to the pictures that have been collected, adds up to a more immersive experience, almost as if you were going on your own personal Mission Trip. 

We will continue to update the map yearly as the mission continues. Currently, we are missing approximately 40 churches. This is due to extreme weather and some political uprisings that have arisen in regions where we have Church plants. We hope to get to those areas before year's end.

We have a group from Cincinnati going on a Mission Trip to our Bissil Headquarters in late October and will report their findings to everyone upon their return. We are very excited with the pace things are progressing and will continue to share and update you as we get information. Remember you can stay current on the Facebook pages we gave in a previous update and you can use the web site as we are now able to stay current.

Thanks for your continued support as we work towards the goal of taking the gospel to all of the Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania 

Yours in Christ,

Dino Costanzo

Dear Partners,

We wanted to let you know that we have begun updating our website and Facebook page. We also misinformed you on the location for updated information on Elijah Soines. His Facebook page is under his nickname (El Maso). See the links below.

Facebook:

Resourcing Ministry Partners, Inc - Updated happenings related to the ministry.

EL MASO- updates on RMP and Bible verses selected by Elijah

FEFC Church Bissil -updates directly from Kenya on church and mission outreach

Website

RMP.aplos.org

Email

rmpministries@gmail.com

Also, we wanted to update you on our European partner Nickolay. He escaped Ukraine last year and is doing well. He currently lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, near his family. 

On August 2, 2024, we will be hosting the 5th annual Dominic Costanzo Memorial Sporting Clays event. Each year, we have been blessed to raise approximately $10,000 at this event. And we pray this year's event will meet (or exceed) that amount.

More exciting things to come!

Dino C.

Dear Partners,

The recent 30 Days of Impact Crusade, Conference, Tent Meeting is coming to an end in Bissell and reports from Daniel and from the many pictures and short videos that have been sent to us, everything that was hoped for appears to have been achieved. They had commitments for Christ numbering in the 150 range during the Crusade part of the event and the impact on Pastors and Church was excellent. The event was very well attended and very organized. We are sharing some of the photos here, but you can go to Daniel's facebook page and Elijah Soine's facebook page for more.

Elijah Soine is the new executive we had asked Daniel to hand pick to communicate directly with us. This is so we can keep those that support the ministry in the know, as well as begin an outreach here in the US. With Daniel's busy schedule, we were behind on the day-to-day goings on. We talk with Daniel weekly, but his time is being consumed with operations of the Ministry, so we suggested he find someone to handle this. 

As we have communicated over the last year and a half, the Church's growth has been explosive and we are committed to doing everything we can to help Daniel and his team of Pastors to sustain this outreach. The problem we see is the funding issue, because there is not a lot of opportunity for financial growth in much of the territory where these churches are being established. That being considered, Daniel has been working on various ideas, but none of them, in our opinion, will solve the long term funding problem. Our goal through this Ministry will be to try to share our purposes and goals to more contributors on this side of the Atlantic. 

Our first project, which is now underway, is to get pictures of every church, its leading Pastor, and its location. These will be added to our website for everyone to view. This sounded easy to Bill and I, but eight months later we were going nowhere on this. The problem, which our Brothers and Sisters were embarrassed to share with us, was the lack of many Pastors' ability to send pictures of their Church and Families, as they do not own smartphones. A task we thought was simple, turned out to actually be quite difficult. 

This is where Elijah Soine comes into play. Daniel picked him to help us accomplish some of the communication tasks that we feel are very important going forward. Elijah will be visiting every church and getting pictures of the churches, as well as Pastors and family members. He will be traveling with a surveyor who will map the coordinates and tie them in to Google and our website. The goal is for viewers to click on a map and see where each church is located with as much details as we can provide. We believe the long term benefit will be our ability to share the Ministry outreach with you and others in a meaningful way. It is going to take time, but we hope to have it together by late September. We are also in talks with our local church in Cincinnati. They are in the process of putting together a Mission Trip to Kenya in October and are planning on meeting with Daniel and other pastors during this trip. They have been very impressed by what Daniel, in conjunction with our Ministry, has accomplished.

We currently have resources to cover these expenses, but the total cost for these plans alone will be in the neighborhood of $15,000 USD. We will need to purchase a motorcycle, pay for Elijah's travel expenses, as well as the surveyor expenses. Other expenses are going to be an updated computer from our end as well as travel expenses related to the Mission trip. The Breakdown is:

$2000 motorcycle

$1500 surveyor

$7500 travel expenses

$4000 computer

$14,500 +/-

We are looking at this as an investment for the long term, because the odds of 50-70 donors keeping this Outreach continuing is probably not realistic, but with God, you never know.

We also have many other expenses weekly, such as extra needs for individual Pastors and Churches beyond the monthly stipends we have been sending. We are currently sending $12,700 USD each month to pay for 201 Pastor salaries. Church repairs, rebuilds, and repairs are running about $3,000 USD monthly. We continue to meet these obligations and I am sure that our Church Family in Africa is thankful beyond our imagination! 

Between all the craziness we have seen in this world over the last four years, it is wonderful to be able to report that growth in this Ministry has been a blessing to all of us. Your steady support has enabled the essentials that were originally envisioned to continue. As we move forward and press on, my goal is to keep what was started by you all going and to blossom into what Jesus and the Father intended for this calling to be. Romans 8:28 

This is the third Mission Update attempt I have written in the last month, but everything has been changing rapidly. So, this is actually where we currently are and my guess, by next week, something new will occur. We will keep you as informed as possible as we move the vision forward.

Yours in Christ,

Dino Costanzo

Resourcing Ministry Partners INC.

Dear Partners,

I am writing this email to update you on the Ministries most current needs. We have approximately 100,000 US dollars in our account and 6 months @ 12,000 per month is earmarked for pastor salaries. Daniel has requested the hope and need for two new church builds in Mombassa and Turkana. Because of the size of the current church in Turkana and their desires for this to be an important outreach, they want to build a church that will cost approximately 24,000 US dollars. They also want to upgrade the church in Mombassa at a cost of 7,000 dollars. We also have expenses for the Church wide annual conference to be held in Bissell. We only have enough to take care of the needs for the conference and partial expenses for the larger church in Turkana. Any thing the Lord puts on your heart for these two churches would be greatly appreciated by the team in Africa. As I have relayed to you in the course of the last 2 years, growth of tribal Africans coming into the Kingdom has reached beyond any expectations we ever had, but at the same time, Bill, Dominic, and Ken would more than likely beg to differ as with God, anything is possible.

I would also ask that our partners to continue to pray for Israel and our Country in these very dark times. Ohio just passed an amendment that will allow unfettered abortion. This has happened in several states that have been very conservative and this brings to light, just how evil can ingrain itself in a Godly Culture. I struggle that any person that calls themselves a Christian can be led by the Holy Spirit to vote in such a way. I in no way condemn those that have been a part of an abortion. The counter culture of evil has presented itself in such a way that many many Christians have been fooled and made this mistake somewhere in their lifetime. I know, how hard that has been on those that succumbed to this, before or during their walk with Christ. 

The Bible is extremely clear on the viability of Life.

Psalm 139:13-14, Luke 1 39-45, Jeremiah 1:4-5, Psalm 51:5-6, Judges 13:3-5. Considering all of these verses, it is clear that the Bible is undoubtedly pro-life. He loves us even before we are born. It has been heartbreaking to me that so many people that claim to be Christian can somehow do mental gymnastics to defend the right of someone to take an innocent and viable life. Political pundits are now arguing that conservatives need to give up this argument to win elections. One that claims to be indwelled with the Holy Spirit just cannot convince me that it is OK to pass the buck and say it is up to the woman to decide and that is between her and God. But it seems this is where we are at and this just leads me to believe we are closer to Christ's return than ever before. One of the most missed verses of Jesus during his Olivet Discourse Matthew 24:4 reads, Jesus answered, "Watch that no one deceives you." 

As for Israel, most reading this will not be surprised at all. This is going to continue until Christ returns. The anti-christ will make a peace treaty with Israel and the whole world is going to think Antisemitism is gone for good. And then half way thru the seven year treaty, all hell is going to break lose and the war of the worlds will begin, with victory all ready foreshadowed. As Christians, we understand the complicated history of the Jewish People and the Jewish State. We were to be looking for the re gathering. The Christians were looking for so long that they invented a theology, because they had to help God along, called Replacement Theology, where the Church became Israel. But our wonderful Lord knew all along what would eventually transpire, we are all just so impatient. Trust me, I am very impatient! WW1, WW2, 1948, 1967,1973, Israel rises from the dust, Ezekiel 37:1-14. Its still here! Continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

I know that these two subjects seem not to correspond to a ministry of indigenous people groups in Kenya, but it does, as Jesus relates to us in Matthew 24:14,"And the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations and then shall the end come." Folks, did you think you would be living in times such as these, you are living in very real and exciting times!!!

I would invite all of you to read again in the next few days, Jesus Olivet Discourse found in the Gospel of Matthew 24-25, Mark 13, Luke 21. After refreshing yourself you may find yourself, heading backwards to Ezekiel, Daniel, Zephaniah, Zechariah, then forward to Revelation. Bill and I are looking for answers on all of this weekly. If you have any insight, we would love to hear it.

I would also recommend the TV or streaming videos of The Chosen. This is an excellent series on Jesus earthly ministry.

Thanks to all of you for your support in advancing the gospel of the kingdom that is coming and is and will be forever more.

Yours in Christ,

Dino Costanzo

Dear Partners,

I need to clarify: I got confused about the recent mission trips. There were actually two trips, one to the Namanga Region on the southern border, next to Tanzania, and the most recent trip, to the Turkana Region in NW Kenya. The Turkana Region is a barren wasteland, but we actually have several churches in this region. This area is very dangerous and this was Daniel's first trip to this region. About three weeks prior they made the trip to Namanga, which is directly south of Nairobi. They actually crossed over to visit one church in Tanzania.

Yours in Christ,

Dino Costanzo

PS, we are sending more pictures from both trips.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

As the Fall season is now upon us, I thought it a good time to send an update on our Kenyan Ministry.

Daniel and seven pastors just recently completed a seven day trip to the Namanya region which is on the Northwest border of Kenya and Tanzania. The Ministry has churches in this remote area and Daniel has never been to these churches, this trip being the first time to visit them. We have some excellent video and pictures that were sent to us via Nelly who also participated in this trip. We are sharing some of this with you and are in the process of updating the web site, where more information will be available to access in the near future.

As I have shared with you over the past year, the size of this ministry has grown at a pace that we have not been able to keep with. At last count we estimate between 230-240 churches, and we are currently paying close to 200 pastors monthly. I have spent the last several months working with Daniel and a couple of other pastors to address accountability, structure, and most importantly an orderly flow of information, so we can be fully updated. We are in the process of getting updated information and photos of all the current pastors and information on the individual churches, their outreach, needs etc.

I have to be honest, this has been a lot more work and effort than I anticipated. Even after all of these years, understanding cultural differences and effectual communication in English is a constant challenge.

The good news is this outreach in Christ has exceeded expectations time and time again since its beginnings over 25 years ago. The ministry has basically outgrown what we are able to give financially and we can only pray that the Lord brings other financial capable organizations along side of us, grows our donor list, or returns shortly, which is my favorite option. You as donors to this mission have contributed well into the millions of dollars, if you can believe it and that says so much about your commitment to the great commission. We are so thankful for your love and support of this mission to win souls for Christ. 

Our goal in the next year is to get the web site as fully updated as possible, get the face book page updated as well. The face book page will be used for video clips as it is a much better venue for video. I have stated to Daniel, that I want to be able to present a clearer picture of the ministry, because the truth of the matter, is few of us will ever to be able to venture to Africa and I want to bring this ministry a little closer to us all.

On a closing note, I point you to a letter written by Ken Yockey addressing the Wad dada Ministry that has been associated with RMP. RMP was created as a conduit for funding for various out reach ministries. So even though our main ministry to date has been Bishop Daniel's church building and evangelistic out reach to the Massai, the ministry has also been used as a conduit for Wad dada and some smaller outreaches.

As of today, Wad dada has formed its own 501c3 and is now operating as its own seperate ministry from RMP as Hope for the Hopeless Ministries. Ken details the objectives and direction of this outreach in his letter. We will continue to work cooperatively with Hope for the Hopeless and any donations made to Wad dada will be filtered to the newly formed ministry. But those wishing to continue to support Wad dada should begin to donate and support thru the new channel addressed in the letter from Ken. I want to stress that this has nothing to do with any disagreements, infighting, etc. This is something that was on Ken's heart to assure that the Wad dada hope did not get lost, if he should be called home, before the Lord's return. 

I will continue to update everyone as time permits.

Yours in Christ,

Dino Costanzo

Dear Partners,
As we approach the month of June I thought I would update everyone on the current happenings of our Ministry.
Our Church Ministry thru Bishop Daniel has been going well with over 200 Pastors being paid monthly salaries between 40-300 American Dollars for a total of 11,500 monthly. We have been able to meet these obligations with the donations of our donors, but as you can see that adds up to well over 100,000 annually. We have also repaired and built 1/2 dozen churches thus far in 2023, close to 50,000 dollars American. Bill Van Fleet and I have been spending quite a bit more time with Daniel in conversation as we work with him on budget issues and accountability of money going out from our ministry. This has to do with the explosion of growth we have experienced over the course of the ministry as accounting has moved from a quickbooks style of accounting to a bill of close to 4,000 dollars a year from a certified accountant. Did any of you ever imagine that this ministry would have an actual accounting bill? We have been very pleased that paperwork has been flowing to us in a very professional manor as we do what is necessary from our end as a non profit organization.
Joseph Riton who many of you are familiar with has stepped in and has been assisting Daniel and Nelly with the pastors and churches.
Ken has been doing the same with the Waddada portion of the ministry in keeping tabs of all of the financial obligations and challenges and is in constant conversation with Nelly. Expenses have grown proportionately for this Ministry as well, reaching into the 100,000 range as well.
We recently held a CEF Rally which was well attended. We have had excellent success with these Rallies with many children and adults making comitrments to Christ. We continue to hold and sponsor at least two of these Rallys per year.
The month of June will bring a large Revival Meeting to Bissil, where the ministry will incurr some extra expenses. We have already disbursed funding of 4,000 dollars to cover the extra expenses.
We have also disbursed an additional 3,000 dollars this month for aqusition of land for 3 churches in our Western Region.
We will continue to update you on the Revival and additional church planting.
Yours in Christ,
Dino Costanzo

Dear Partners,

We apologize for such a late update, especially after our latest trip to Kenya. Things have changed so much since our last trip and we had to let things settle in for a while before deciding what to send.
First of all, the number of churches that are being administered from our outreach has reached over 200! Believe it or not, in several different regions, we have church buildings nearly everywhere. Our travelers were impressed with the number of Faith Evangelical Free Churches dotting the road ways. Due to this explosive growth, we have been able to cover much of the Maasai region and other areas as well. We have decided that we need to concentrate on strengthening the churches we have because of this growth. This entails getting the titles of the churches in the proper order, according to Kenyan laws, and taking care of the pastoral needs. Previously, approximately $8,000 USD have been allocated monthly for pastor salaries and expenses. We are raising that to $11,000 USD monthly and we are hopeful that we will be able to raise that monthly allowance in the coming months. In past years, we have concentrated on new church builds, but with this unprecedented growth and the importance of funding our front line pastors, we are going to shift our funding to them, as they are our leadership for spreading the gospel. Our goal is to raise $180,000 USD in 2023 for pastors' salaries. These salaries, coupled with Daniel's travel and family expenses, we have determined a need of $200,000 USD this year for the evangelical outreach of this ministry. We currently have $50,000 USD in our funds for this project. We are paying pastors approximately $75 USD per month. We have 180+ pastors. These pastors are not making much and, although some have other means of income, there is not a lot of opportunity for income in many of these regions.
Our Children's Ministry through Wadada is also going extremely well. The building is housing 60 children at this time, with a total capacity of 100. We just paid the school fees and other miscellaneous fees and currently have approximately $50,000 USD in our funds for this project. The annual need for this ministry will reach approximately $150,000 USD for 2023. This amount could easily change, as the number of children being helped could increase; however, we are keeping track of the actual numbers of children against our funds, so each child receives the optimum care.
Our overall take away from our latest trip is things have grown and exceeded the expectations we had for this ministry. The ministry started out with a vision of the founders reaching indigenous people with the gospel to finish our work on this earth according to our Lord Jesus teaching," to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth." This is being done in Kenya through this outreach to many different ethnic groups, not just the Maasai, which was the original goal. We have established a Children's orphanage as well, something that just followed from the original outreach.
In these last days and trying times before our Lord's return, we ask for your continued help to strengthen and establish this ministry in the hopes of saving "as many that have been called." If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us, anytime. Just email, and leave a phone contact, if you want to talk directly to one of us. Email is rmpministries@gmail.com. Also, you can call either Dino (513)608-2656 or our office (513)522-5454 and leave a message!
Sincerely,
Resourcing Ministry Partners