“These last two months in Ivory Coast have meant the world to me, and I can’t imagine a better place for me to have been for this specific summer,” said REACH intern Claire Richardson. “I’ve been changed, my mind has been stretched, and I’ve grown in ways I didn’t even know I needed to grow and learned so much more than I anticipated.”
Remember your first birthday away from home? REACH intern Claire Richardson will never forget her 19th birthday, which she experienced while serving in Abengourou, Ivory Coast. Here’s how she celebrated.
“I cannot believe I’m almost done with this REACH internship,” said Olivia Millar, who served this summer with Missions of Hope International (MOHI) in Nairobi, Kenya. “I’ve experienced so many wonderful and shaping things and built some incredible relationships.”
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.
The CMF ministry in Ivory Coast is centered on child sponsorship and the renowned PIM Medical Clinic in Abengourou, but REACH intern Lauren Cathey is learning that these wide-ranging programs touch Ivorians in many ways.
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.
REACH interns Anna Woolf and Anna Grover are spending the summer “down under” in the city of Melbourne, Australia, with CMF team member Abby Weller. Abby’s ministry is centered in the hyper-diverse, low-socio-economic suburb of Dandenong, where she works with young people in her partner church’s youth group and in the local public school. Here’s an update from Anna Woolf about their first week in Australia:
