Bernard and Mary Kabaru Mwangi

Bernard was born and grew up in the Kiang’ondu Village of rural Nyeri County in Kenya. He received an Associate of Arts degree in 1990, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and a minor in psychology in 1991 from Williams Baptist College in Arkansas. He went on to earn a Master of Divinity from the International Leadership University in Kenya in 1996, and has attended doctoral seminars at the Morling College in Sydney, Australia (2002) and Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, KY (2010). He served as Principal of the Kenyan Baptist Theological College before becoming a partner in Teleios.

God has used Bernard to plant two churches in the outskirts of Nairobi: Banana Hill and Koinonia (Ruaka). He is the founder and leads Life Empowerment for Transformation International (LEFTI) and is a partner in Life Change Investments (LCI). Mary founded and leads Happy Day Academy, a nursery through primary school.

They were married in 1991, have two daughters, Shirley (1993) married to Timothy and Carol (1996), and are proud grandparents.