Bio

Peter Agwa is a Kenyan surgeon who became a Christian through the Navigator High School Ministry in Nairobi. During Medical School, at the University of Nairobi, he was part of the Navigator Campus Ministry Leadership Team, doing on-campus evangelism and discipleship Bible studies.

He met his wife Lydia, a pharmacy student at the Nairobi University and they were married at the end of their internship year. For four and a half years he worked with AIM/AIC as a medical officer and a staff surgeon at Kijabe Medical Center. In those years their family grew from two to five. They have a son Jonan (1985) and two daughters Joanna (1987) and Jonea (1988).

During the Kijabe years, they participated in the Navigator Community Ministry and also did Bible studies with nursing students and fellow missionaries.

In 1990, they moved to Eldoret, a town north west of Nairobi where they were part of the Navigator’s leadership team. They conducted a home-based couples' Bible study. His teaching job with Moi University's Faculty of Medicine gave him a chance to do evangelistic and discipleship studies with the medical students.



Dr. Agwa says, “My prayer for the U of T medical school is that the students, residents and their teachers would be reading and discussing the gospels and so discover the Lamb of God.

My vision for the U of T MCF is to see a fellowship in which the older/senior students and residents are mentoring and evangelizing among their colleagues.”




U of T Group Update

October, 2007

I’ve been serving with Christian Medical and Dental Society for two years at the University of Toronto medical school. This coming year, I plan to help students in their personal walk with Christ, and develop a fellowship among the students. The goal is for every generation of medical students to have a strong fellowship, through regular Bible study, personal devotional times and seeking opportunities to share their faith with non-Christian colleagues. I’m trusting God for opportunities to meet key students one-on-one. I’m praying that I will be a mentor and a pace-setter in the areas of personal walk with God and sharing faith one-on-one with fellow colleagues and medical students. This year, we’ve planned some evenings out and dinners with various CMDS members attending. We hope physicians will come and join us, as this will give us a chance to learn from our senior colleagues. I actually believe that, out of the Christian Medical and Dental Society fellowship at the University of Toronto, God can raise up men and women who will influence their colleagues, their families and their patients for Christ. I also believe that many of our colleagues and friends, who are at the campus, who do not know Christ, can come to a living faith just from knowing us and through us sharing our lives with them. But even more exciting for me, is the possibility that out of our little fellowship at U of T, God can send missionary doctors and teachers to teach at medical schools on every continent. Please pray that what I am doing at U of T will really serve to advance the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

- Peter Agwa
P_otienoagwa@rogers.com

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