Stephen Muhota
founder & President
Stephen Muhota grew up from a very humble beginning. Following his father's early death through Leukemia, circumstances forced him at age 7 to go live with his alcoholic uncle 400 miles away from his mother and siblings. For the next seven year, Stephen lived as a virtual orphan, tending his uncle's sheep and sleeping at the sheep pen.
Nonetheless, God was with Stephen and miraculously, Stephen is today a holder of the following:
BS degree (Plant Mechanics) from Kenya Technical University, Kenya
Bachelor of Biblical Literature from Ozark Christian College, Missouri, US.
Bachelor of Christian Ministry from Ozark Christian College, Missouri, US
Master of Divinity degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, US.
In 1999, Stephen answered God's call to ministry, left his secular job and planted an independent, non-denominational church--Trinity Worship Tabernacle in Nakuru, Kenya, the church wherein he is the senior Pastor. While undertaking his theological studies, Stephen’s passion to help orphaned kids led him to launch CrossPower Agape Ministry in 2007.
Upon his return from his theological studies in the States in 2014, Stephen, under God's direction founded Real Men Ministry (RMM), a platform he is using to call men back to God and to their God-ordained roles and responsibilities as males.
Stephen is also the author of two books—”Trials into Triumph” and “Man in Communion.”
Stephen married the love of his life, Joy in Dec. 1986. They have grown children and are enjoying the blessing of grandkids. They now live in Nakuru, Kenya.
John Putnam
VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER
John Putnam graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969 with a BS in Business Administration and completed his M.A.T.S. Masters Degree in Theological Studies in 2007. He has spent the last 50 years, working in the commercial and non-profit sectors as a teacher, administrator, and manager most recently at Ozark Highlands Farm, Carthage, MO purchased in 1998.
He has been married to Merre Martha Miller from Chesterfield, MO since 1969 and has four grown children ages 30 to 49. He has also been active in volunteer work with various civic and policy groups in the state of Missouri including the SW MO Citizens for a Decent Environment, Boy Scouts of America, SW MO Conservative Network. Both John and his wife Merre live in Carthage, Missouri in the United States of America.
John Ricklef
John Ricklefs grew up on a family farm in northeast Kansas, where he attended public school. Upon graduating high school John attended Kansas State University where he earned a bachelor's of science degree with a special emphasis in animal nutrition. He graduated in 1964 and promptly went into the US Air Force where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He spent the next four years serving as the crew commander of a Titan II ICBM which was the largest nuclear weapon we could deliver.
John's business career included owning a newspaper, a membership to the Kansas City Board of Trade, where he actively traded commodities, and for the past 25 years he and his wife have operated the Top Flight Kids Learning Center, under contract to the Federal Aviation Administration.
John and Marcie attend the First Baptist Church in North Kansas City, MO., where he is a deacon, and they are the Eastern African coordinators for missions. They have helped facilitate medical clinics in under served villages in southwest Kenya. They also have done clinics in Ethiopia. They both live in Kansas City, Missouri in the United States of America.