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Kenya Mission Outreach

Mission Statement:
To strengthen the African Christian family as together we fight poverty and AIDS.
Join us as we continue the support begun by our church at Nazareth Hospital in Kenya. Financial contributions and prayer support aids the following ministries:

  • Provides three full-time Christian hospital chaplains.• Subsidizes 50% of tuition through scholarships for nurses in an in-house RN certified school to help in the clinic.
  • Helps hundreds of patients financially who do not have the means to pay their hospital bill.
  • Provides the hunger ministry run by a local Presbyterian church in Kenya touching the lives of hundreds of children.
  • Together with the Browns’ family, we have helped build an expansion onto the HIV/AIDS clinic to help with counseling and testing.
    Assists the Holy Family AIDS clinic help the 1500 patients diagnosed HIV+, many on anti-retrovirals.
  • Maintains the clinic which sees about six new patients a day and has about 50-60 HIV+ patients being treated daily.
  • Equipping hospital with necessary equipment to continue urology surgery begun by Dr. Bill Rawls during the January 2006 mission trip.

Ministry opportunities include:

  • November 2008 mission trip.
  • Living Waters for the World.
  • Mentorship program for boys and girls.
  • Home gardening project to create sustainable food.

For more information about how you can be involved, please call Sharon Privett, 855-7368, or Frances Dille, 623-7328, or Sheryl Wood, 625-1697.
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