When fourth-grader Midy Michelle, a student at Missions of Hope’s Baba Dogo school in Nairobi, Kenya, landed in Kenyatta Hospital with a broken leg, it was a given that members of the school staff would visit her. And REACH intern Olivia Millar, who’s serving with the school’s Community Health Evangelism program this summer, got to go along for the adventure.
A team of 11 REACH interns are serving with CMF’s partner, Missions of Hope International (MOHI), in Nairobi, Kenya, right now, and are feeling blessed, challenged, tired and exhilarated, all at the same time! Here are a few great stories from four teammates about their first weeks in Kenya.
If you were to visit the village of Kargi in Marsabit, the poorest county in all of Kenya, this is what you would find: water scarcity, food insecurity and extreme poverty.
A Turkana woman has completed the certification training to make Days for Girls menstrual hygiene kits in Nairobi, Kenya, and opened her own workshop in Napusimoru, according to CMF team member Caitlin Pitts.
The clean water wells and farms provided by CMF donors in the Turkana, Kenya, desert are thriving and transforming their communities, even in the midst of a long-time drought, according to CMF team member Eric Pitts.
When a devastating drought hit Kenya in 2017 and spilled over into 2018, the region of Kajiado experienced overwhelming losses.
When the African Children’s Choir performed at his college during his senior year, Joel Brock had no idea that it would lead him to his career as a missionary in Kenya and to his future wife!
In June 2017, Ekiru Lokwawi was running an errand for his dad on a motorbike when he seriously burned his leg, and his life became filled with constant pain.
Do you love being around kids? Lots of kids?
CMF’s ministry partner, Missions of Hope International, has openings for several married couples to serve as dorm parents in their girls’ and boys’ dorms at two boarding schools outside Nairobi. There are 1,300 middle school and high school students living at these two schools.
In 1976, they were two kids from rural Oregon who wanted to serve God in Africa but didn’t have any idea how to set up and get started.
Fortunately for all, they connected with CMF as their support organization, and Garry and Linda Brock’s 44 years of ground-breaking mission work in Ethiopia, Kenya, the CMF office and Asia Marketplace Ministries took off.
