How to read Kenya in GospelGraph
A first-pass pastoral field map, not a false-precision census product.
Kenya GospelGraph is built to help pastors and planters compare wards honestly. The goal is not to flood you with categories. The goal is to help you ask: Where is the burden high? Where is witness thin? Where can repeated presence be sustained? And where does the field seem to be opening or hardening?
Start with four pastoral questions
The Kenya explorer is best read as a field-triage tool. It is trying to help you see where ministry burden is concentrated, where public witness looks thin, where repeated presence is more workable, and where the field appears to be opening or hardening over time.
That means the layers should be read as ministry posture, not as final judgments about neighborhoods, conversions, or the faithfulness of local churches. The map sorts the field so pastors can ask better questions on the ground.
Why the app shows source confidence instead of hiding it
Kenya v1 uses reachable KNBS/rKenyaCensus 2019 tables projected onto wards. When a ward cleanly joins to a sub-county label, GospelGraph marks that as a cleaner local read. When it does not, GospelGraph falls back to county-level values rather than pretending to know more than it does.
That is deliberate. False precision is worse than honest fallback. The product is built to show where the read is firmer and where it should be treated more cautiously.
What the witness and presence layers are actually measuring
Church, market, transport, building, and night-light signals are not trying to tell you whether a place is spiritually alive. They are trying to tell you what kind of ground the place is for ministry presence: sparse or dense, reachable or difficult, publicly active or thinly formed.
That makes them useful for pastoral comparison, but they still need local verification. A strong signal on the map is not a substitute for local leaders, field visits, or denominational knowledge.
How the Kenya movement read is built
Kenya movement is an honest comparable-history layer, not a claim that every ward feature has been fully rebuilt across time. The historical backbone is anchored mainly through comparable VIIRS-like night-lights snapshots while the non-temporal ward inputs are held fixed for honesty.
That gives GospelGraph two useful windows. The recent frame gives a cleaner modern comparison. The long frame gives a deeper memory read. Confidence is shown separately so a dramatic swing is not confused with a well-supported swing.
What stays contextual rather than being forced into the ward score
Joshua Project and ACLED matter, but they are not treated as if they were clean ward-native facts. Joshua Project is used as contextual people-group geography. ACLED is shown as national pressure backdrop because the public HDX files in this build are not authenticated ward-level event points.
That means the Kenya surface keeps these layers visible without pretending they are more precise than they are.
Short answers for search, staff, and session rooms.
Keep reading from the same library
These pages share the same methodology frame: definitions, transparent data sources, and ministry-use cases for tract-level decision making.