Dr. Kavala is married to Elizabeth and God has blessed them with three wonderful children: Rebecca, Grace, and Joseph.  Together with his family, Dr. Kavala is planting Emmanuel Reformed Church, a confessional, reformed, and Presbyterian church, that holds to the Westminster standards, at Olooseos in Kajiado county, south of Nairobi.

Dr. Kavala has a PhD in Old Testament studies from the University of South Africa and is now  using His education to train other African church leaders in Bible knowledge.

He is running Mobile Theological School in Northern Kenya. His focus group is untrained preachers serving among the least or unreached tribes and villages in Isiolo, Turkana, Samburu and Marsabit counties. These are dry, difficult areas and national security zones. He sets aside one week every month for these trainings. Over the last two years, he has trained 200 church leaders.

There are also plans to construct Emmanuel Theological College to train Kenyan pastors.

Prayer needs: 

• People in the village where we are doing church planting believe in the prosperity gospel, blending the gospel with culture, animism, belief in dreams, and false prophecy. These are the constant battles we are finding ourselves involved in every day. Please pray for the truth to prevail in the minds and hearts of those we speak to.
• Pray for the construction of Emmanuel Theological College.
• We are quite aware that we are in a spiritual battle.  Pray that we will be faithful and focused on what the Lord is calling us to do here.
• Pray that we will not become weary. Christ has called us to be overcomers, more than conquerors, co-rulers forever with him. 
• We are planning on how we can get Westminster Confession of Faith Shorter Catechism translated in Swahili (official languages in Kenya and Tanzania).