African Christian Authors – ACABA by CLC Kenya
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Hellen Yego is an agriculturalist, farmer, community development practitioner, mentor and Christian teacher. She began her career as an Assistant Agricultural Officer in Trans Nzoia District before serving for 15 years with the Anglican Church of Kenya, Diocese of Eldoret, where she worked in sustainable agriculture and community development. She later pursued further studies in Horticulture and Theology and has been involved in community empowerment, women and youth development, agriculture, entrepreneurship and mentorship. She currently teaches at Grace Bible College and continues to mentor women and young people. Her life and work are anchored in faith in God, education, resilience and the conviction that it is never too late to dream.
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Dare to Dream: Dreams That Come True is the inspiring memoir of Hellen Yego, a woman whose journey from rural Nandi to national and international platforms is a testimony to faith and the courage to dream. From childhood experiences, education and career, to community development, entrepreneurship, mentorship and ministry, Hellen shares the challenges that shaped her and the lessons she learnt along the way. With honesty and a deep trust in God, she shows that difficult beginnings do not have to determine our destiny. This is a story of dreaming, believing, overcoming and living with purpose.
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My inspiration to write began with my father, Herman Too. When I was eight years old, he bought me a storybook titled Cinderella and the Dancing Shoe. It was a pictorial book, and he would read it to me while explaining the pictures in detail. I began doing the same for my siblings, explaining the story exactly as my father had taught me. He was so excited that he encouraged me to write a book when I grew up. That statement remained in my heart. As I grew older, my father continued reminding me that I should write a book until he passed away in 1993. His passing strengthened my desire to fulfil his wish, although for many years I did not know what I should write about. In 2016, my late mother, Esther Too, began writing stories about her life from childhood. She was 83 years old at the time. Reading her manuscript inspired me to think seriously about my own book. I prayed and asked God to show me what to write. In 2018, I felt God directing me to write about my own life, a memoir. I bought a 200-page A4 notebook and began documenting my experiences, the things I had done, the goals I had set, and how I had worked towards achieving them. Along the journey, I discovered Christian Literature Communications (CLC) through a WhatsApp group where one of the members was being celebrated for becoming an author. I became curious, enquired about CLC, and eventually joined a CLC Writing Class. CLC came as a God-sent organisation to hold my hand and help me develop the book, by God’s grace.
I believe different groups of people can benefit from this book, particularly parents, teachers, pupils, and young people. I pray that parents will recognise the important role they have in encouraging and motivating their children to read. Developing a love for reading can help children appreciate education, work hard, and begin thinking intentionally about their future. I also hope teachers will be encouraged to help pupils read and begin thinking about their future careers. I often encounter young people who finish high school without knowing what they want to pursue. They depend entirely on other people to direct them, sometimes resulting in choices that lead them down paths that do not fulfil their potential. I have learnt that children between the ages of 10 and 12 can already begin displaying talents and interests that, when recognised and nurtured, can eventually develop into meaningful careers. Through my story, I hope young people will learn to dream, develop vision, set goals, and intentionally prepare for their future.
One of the central themes that emerged during my writing was vision and goal setting. I reflected on how I viewed my life from childhood and how having goals influenced the direction I took. Chapter Two became particularly meaningful because God spoke personally to me through Psalm 37:4–5: “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” This Scripture became like a compass throughout my writing journey. Whenever I was constructing sentences and developing the manuscript, I would meditate on it. It continually reminded me that God was involved in the writing of this book.
God taught me many lessons throughout the writing process. One important lesson was that God places people in our lives to hold our hands as we pursue what He has placed before us. If it were not for CLC, I might not be where I am today with this book. God also taught me obedience and resilience. I had to honour my father’s encouragement to write despite the many years it took for that dream to become a reality. During the Writing Class, I also had to learn to follow the writing process and the procedures provided. There were challenges along the way. At one point, because I did not fully understand the Writing Class process, I even wondered whether my book would make it to publishing. Yet God taught me to bounce back from difficult moments and continue. Through those experiences, I became stronger and learnt that challenges do not necessarily mean the dream has ended.
If I had only one minute to tell someone why they should read this book, I would say: This book is a seed that will inspire generations. Dare to Dream shows that our beginnings do not have to determine where we eventually end up. Dreams can take years to materialise. My own journey towards writing this book began with words spoken by my father when I was only eight years old. Through education, career, family, farming, community development, ministry, and the different seasons of my life, I have learnt the importance of vision, setting goals, working towards them, remaining resilient, and trusting God. My hope is that readers, especially young people, will be inspired to recognise their potential, dream about their future, and intentionally work towards becoming who God has called them to be.
There is something deeply moving about the story behind this book, Dare to Dream by Hellen Yego. It begins, not with an international platform, a career achievement or a remarkable accomplishment, but with a father sitting with his eight-year-old daughter, gifting her a book and helping her read it.
The book was Cinderella and the Dancing Shoe. Hellen’s father did more than give his daughter something to read. He opened a door in her imagination. He helped her read the story and then encouraged her to write a book of her own when she grew up. At eight years old, Hellen could not have known where those words would lead. Her father could not have known that the simple gift of a children’s book would become part of a much larger story that would span education, agriculture, community work, international engagement, Christian service and a lifetime of learning.
But perhaps that is the beautiful mystery of books. We rarely know where a book will take a child.
As a publisher who has spent many years encouraging African families to read, write and publish, Hellen’s story reminds me why this work matters so much. We often think of a book as a product that sits on a shelf, is read and then put away. But sometimes a book becomes a seed. It enters a child’s imagination and quietly begins to shape the way that child sees the world and sees themselves. Hellen’s father planted such a seed. Today, Hellen is retired from the career that occupied much of her working life, yet she has not retired from dreaming. That, perhaps, is one of the most beautiful things about her story. The little girl who once held a storybook and imagined what she might become is still dreaming many years later. It makes me wonder how many children are waiting for someone to place the right book in their hands. Perhaps your child is one of them. Perhaps your grandchild, niece, nephew, pupil or Sunday school student is carrying a dream that has not yet found words. Perhaps the book you choose to give them this year will become the book they remember decades from now. We cannot always measure the impact of a gift at the moment we give it. A book may cost very little, but the imagination, courage and possibility it awakens can be priceless. Hellen’s story is therefore also a quiet tribute to her father. He did not know he was helping to shape a life when he bought that book. He simply saw an eight-year-old girl who needed to learn, imagine and dream. His investment reached much further than he could see. That is the privilege and responsibility we have when we put books into the hands of children. May this memoir encourage us not only to dare to dream ourselves, but also to become people who help the next generation dream. May we give children books. May we read with them. May we listen to the questions they ask and take their imaginations seriously. And may we never underestimate what can happen when a child is told, “You can become something. You can dream. You can write your own story.” Because sometimes, a father gives his daughter a book, and many years later, the world gets to read the life that book helped inspire.
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