Our Partners with fuzzy face

Karen and Wilson Oyango on my right. Wilson grew up in Kibera and has returned, a gifted pastor and evangelist to serve with his wife, Karen. Karen studies at a local theological school and together with Wilson pastors a children’s church in Kibera. Karen is a cross cultural witness from Germany.
Linda and Frank Nyamache on my left. Frank also grew up in a Kenyan slum, trained for ministry in Australia and together with Linda planted Nairobi Beliver’s Mission in Kibera. Linda is a gifted children’s minister and her and Frank’s vision for family life is the driving force behind their church. 150 children are attending their Saturday and Sunday ministries. Recently, Wilson led 24 ex-gangsters to the Lord and we are discipling them through the ministries of Nairobi Believer’s Mission.
Together we are developing an equipping ministry for youth and children’s ministers in the slums as well as micro finance ministry for these ex-gangsters and other young people in the slums.

One of our Partner Churches

Pastor Frank on the far left, his wife Linda peering above the heads of just a few of their little ones in their church in Kibera.

Cell Groups for Kibera Pastors

Kenyans are very good at organizing groups to meet community needs. To help encourage more extensive use of cell groups in the local churches in the slums, we are trying to enrich the existing pastor cell groups like this one and organize new ones. Developing savings plans, encouraging the sharing of pulpits and ministry resources, we hope to help the pastors strengthen their churches as they learn to help one another in very personal and tangible ways.

Capturing the Moment at Lake Bagoria

Bethany’s our photographer. Most of the really good pictures on our blog are hers. While camping at Lake Bagoria, we encountered a 3 foot snake, a spider whose legs could easily span a large man’s hand and a metropolis of Baboons. With hot gasses bubbling up from the geothermic activity beneath the Lake and the equatorial sun, we spent every afternoon in the mountain spring that ran near our campsite. And when small black faced monkeys weren’t pelting us with figs from above, we managed to take in some very incredible views that prompt the soul to rest and say, “It is GOOD!”

Cooling off at a mountain spring waterfall feeding Lake Bagoria

A Dead Lake with Abundant Life

While Bagoria is a dead lake, no fish, nothing but algae beneath it's waters, there’s no shortage of life on and around it’s water. The white specks are Flamingos. See the grant’s gazelles?

Josiah going Masai

Josiah happened to be wearing red the day he met these Masai youth – so he blended right in? While many of them wear traditional clothes for tourists, others simply prefer their traditional clothes to Western wear.