The Lyavo community in Kenya, home to the Lord’s Servants Home and School, is split by a water drainage creek. During the two annual rainy seasons, getting from homes on one side to the other side with the school, church, and clean water is only possible on one of two pedestrian bridges. These bridges were built over the past several years by joint Mission Servants Ministry (MSM) and Lyavo community partnership. One of the bridges was in need of stabilization against erosion caused by the last few rainy seasons which were particularly heavy.
Like the other community projects, water wells, and road improvements, MSM donates funds and technical guidance and the community provides all the labor. Now we are not talking a few skilled laborers spending weeks doing something….Here, many Men, Women, and Children pitched in and made this project happen in just a few days. The remote location meant the sand, rocks, and gravel all are transported by Mule cart, Wheelbarrow, and Human. I love the big turnout of people and investment of time to solve a community problem. God gets the glory for the funds, organization, and success. There was a community member who injured his hand on this project and we pray for his healing.
Tony, Eldon, and Ray are home now after completing a 10 day trip to Kenya including Nairobi and the Lord’s Servants Home (LSH) that is supported by Mission Servants Ministry (MSM) since 2007. Those three guys are a team with Christ-like hearts for teaching, serving, and loving others. Among other goals, they partnered with Pastors Henry and Moses, Kenyan Missionaries from Nairobi for a week of local Pastor training and teaching at LSH.
20 area Pastors were trained as a follow-up program to a week long session last year.
Ray spent the week teaching a bible course at the Compel High School in nearby Webuye.
Tony met with the older children from LSH that have completed High School and are planning a future either with further education or training, or business starting. We stay in touch and advise and help where we can. Kenya is a bleak place economically for young adults. A news source reports that 3.9 million Kenyans under 35 years old with college degrees are out of work or underemployed. Depending who you ask, the general unemployment of trained people is over 1/3. Tragic. We hope to focus the kids towards job creation and careers in demand.
Eldon taught a daily Adult Discipleship Class. Always a favorite of the Church Members.
Last year there was considerable effort to train local ladies in sewing. A room with good sewing machines was set up and several ladies trained. Tony found a thriving sewing group that calls itself the LSH sewing club. Plans were discussed to expand this initiative to a larger place to allow more to participate.
One area needing repair attention was the playground of the school. New parts were brought from the US and work organized to fix the playground. This was a popular effort!
A second main area of repair need was the battery backup system for the power for lights. Grid power has outages several times a week. The storage batteries that supplies power during outages were well beyond their lifespan. New batteries and other electrical system repairs were made.
Several Community Water Supply Projects that have been supported by MSM were visited. 11 new projects were completed since the visit last year providing safe clean water for over 2000 families. The latest one is on the left. This initiative continues in 2025.
Thank you all for your prayers and support of the hands on efforts of MSM to improve the futures of the LSH kids, the health of the community, and spreading the Gospel in the Bwase region of Kenya. Praise God for that work since 2007.
This is a quick post of sincere Gratitude and encouragement. 2024 was filled with amazing projects and efforts that lovingly and eternally impacted our target communities and children in Kenya and Uganda. Thank you for your prayers and support for these awesome things and for standing with us in eager service into 2025. Your funding is the sole means of meeting these levels of need. All I am reporting is accomplished on a roughly $250,000 budget per year. More information and how to support here…
MSM meets the complete needs of roughly 70 children at the two homes in Kenya and Uganda and higher education support for many more of among the older graduated children. Lord’s Servants Home (LSH) and Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM). All workers employed are nationals. MSM also supports the children’s Primary and High schools through fees, projects, and other assistance.
3 Mission Trips were made to projects, homes, and schools in Kenya and Uganda. These are crucial to organize activities that go on year round, bring materials and serve in ways not available in country, train and encourage, and love the children and people in our sponsored homes, schools, and communities.
11 Community Clean Water Access Projects were completed in Kenya near the LSH home. Typically these involve securing a shallow well site from contamination and installing a closed hand pump to provide clean access to at least 100 families, often more than 200 per site.
A security fence was completed around Rock View Primary School (RVPS). This provides important security for the school property and boarding Children.
A new Kitchen was built and completed at RVPS allowing for growth at the school up to 500 kids and a more efficient cooking.
A new Junior Elementary School was birthed. The Bwase Redeemed Junior School (BRJS) is under construction and will open in February of 2025 to serve the community near CRM. Nursery, Kindergarten, and Grade 1 will open. This will allow small kids who can’t reach the far off schools to get a quality educational start and twice daily meals.
Assisted a new medical clinic, The Nisaya Clinic start up in a small trading center near to the RVPS school to serve people previously needing to travel over 15 miles to find health services. Support, technical assistance and loans have allowed them to obtain lab equipment and set up a maternity ward.
Established a unique Home Schooling intervention program for 11 slow learning children from the CRM Home. This will help insure kids are not getting left behind educationally. 2 new Children joined the CRM home.
Kingdom work is a priority by encouraging and partnering with the local churches, Bwase Redeemed Church and Lyavo Bible Church. Churches have been planted, Widows have been served, Bedding provided for kids, People are being Baptized, a local Witch has found Jesus and burned his witch tools. The Teso People Group Evangelism teams were supported through technical equipment and training.
What is planned in 2025?…Open the BRJS school, 2 Trips in Jan., more community projects, new children join CRM, and see our supported children grow into loving, healthy, educated, motivated, and productive citizens. We are thankful for your prayers and support, whether monthly or one time. They are answers to our prayers and necessary to our work.
Thank you very much and may God bless your Christmas and New Year,
Trips to visit the MSM sponsored ministries and projects in Kenya and Uganda were made by two teams in January and February. In summary the excellent state of things at The Lord’s Servants Home, Bridgeway Hope Academy, Community projects and church in Lyavo, (Kenya), Teso Evangelism support ministry (Kenya), Child Redeemed Mission Home, Promise Primary School, Rock View Primary School, and the Community projects and church in Bwase (Uganda) were witnessed. A report in 17 minute video format follows. All Praise and Glory to God.
There was record flooding in the region around the Lord’s Servants Home (LSH) in Kenya in 2022. Two of the three bridges used to cross a creek and ravine from one side of the community to the other were made of wood and washed away. The 3rd bridge was constructed of steel and concrete in a joint project between Mission Servants Ministry (MSM) and the community in 2020 and had some repairable damage but survived well.
The community requested of the Mission Team and MSM to join in a project to build a durable steel and concrete bridge again to replace the ones washed away and allow school kids to safely reach the Bridgeway Hope Academy (BHA) on the grounds of LSH as well as general travel within the community. Meetings with the community leaders yielded a bridge design, budget, and commitment from dozens of people to participate in the construction. They attacked it with a passion and quickly completed the bridge which benefits all. Helping others help themselves is good help. Community projects that grow out of mission work is a great way to show more people the Love of Jesus Christ in a practical way. People will want to get to know that Jesus Christ as a start to a relationship.
MSM provided funding for all the materials. Pastor Ken provided the construction experience and leadership. The community provided the labor and food for those working.
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