East Africa Health Strategies

Samuel* and Christian* are Kenyan clinic volunteers who have expressed a calling to lifelong medical missions. They are passionate about sharing the gospel and bringing physical healing alongside it.

Your generosity to this ministry enables these believers to participate in EEG training and then work with Kenyan doctors to identify seizure disorders in those who are undiagnosed, making life-changing treatment possible.

Our team is partnering with the Lead Global Training Center to equip Samuel and Christian in cross-cultural missions and ministry. In addition to joining us in medical camps, we are personally discipling them through ongoing Bible study and teaching them how to use health strategies in missions.

What a joy to see East Africans follow the Great Commission as they use the talents God gave them to reach fellow East Africans for Christ!

We praise God for opening doors with new Kenyan and Ugandan churches and U.S. team partners. These partnerships enable us to train local Baptist churches to be salt and light in predominantly Muslim areas, while we minister to some of the sickest and highest number of patients we have ever seen in our medical camps.

Your gifts and prayers allow us to meet physical needs as we cast vision and mobilize African clinicians and church members to share Jesus with the lost.

Please continue joining us in prayer:

• Pray for Samuel and Christian as they follow the Lord’s leadership in ministry.
• Ask God to bless these new partnerships with Kenyan and Ugandan churches and U.S. teams, so they grow into long, deep relationships that bear much gospel fruit.
• Pray for direction as we pursue the open door with a new people group in Uganda and engage them with health strategies and training for local pastors.
• Ask the Lord to protect our physical health so we can continue ministering here, and to give us discernment as we follow His leadership and direction.

Thank you for partnering with us in what God is doing here in East Africa. Your support is helping expand His kingdom. We are grateful beyond words.

*Names changed

Mama Anna* is a member of the Masai people group, living in Tanzania. While she had heard of Jesus, she did not understand much of what she heard.

On the last day of our medical camp and Vacation Bible School, two team members saw Mama Anna washing dishes behind the “cook shack.”

Following Jesus’s teaching and example, the two women approached Mama Anna and shared the gospel with her. One gently took over washing dishes, while the other shared God’s offer of salvation and answered Mama Anna’s questions.

By the end of the stack of dishes, Mama Anna prayed to accept Jesus as her Savior. The women gave her a copy of the Bible in the Masai language, so she can continue learning and growing in Christ.

You are an important part of Mama Anna’s spiritual journey because of your faithful gifts to this ministry, which enabled the medical camp and VBS in her community.

Now, Mama Anna has a biblically based, healthy church family within walking distance of her home, where she can learn and grow in Christ.

Thank you for partnering with us to use health strategies in sharing the gospel and helping churches disciple believers like Mama Anna.

Please continue joining us in prayer:

• Praise God for Mama Anna’s commitment to follow Christ.
• Pray for Masai pastors and churches to welcome new believers warmly and disciple them as they grow in Christ.
• Ask God for wisdom and discernment as we determine new areas of work, that He will lead us to the people and locations that will honor Him and meet needs.
• Pray that people we serve see Jesus and not us: “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30).

Thank you for being an essential part of our ministry team, as we, together, seek to make Christ known in East Africa.

*Name changed

Pastor Sadera* and Mama Nasinka* serve in a rural Maasai church and are committed to serving their church faithfully.

While the people they serve likely look different than those in your church, they have many of the same struggles: family issues, illnesses, and spiritual immaturity.

Pastor Sadera and Mama Nasinka were excited about training opportunities to help them minister. You made this possible through your generosity to this ministry.

A team of four Maasai women who attended last year’s women’s health training took the lead in teaching this year. They taught 46 women through a Scripture-based women’s health curriculum. Praise God!

At the same time, pastors and church leaders learned how to study the Bible, deepen their walk with Christ, and effectively lead churches. These leaders asked probing questions and engaged in lively discussions. After their training, the leaders immediately used what they learned to teach others.

The training was so impactful that Pastor Sadera* and others asked for more. We are working to get them into a two-year weekly theological education by extension program to equip them for ministry.

The women asked for additional education to help them deal with the high rate of HIV/AIDS among their people. This training will equip them to meet the needs of their churches and communities.

Your gifts and prayers provide church leaders like Pastor Sadera and Mama Nasinka training to lead their churches in addressing both spiritual and physical needs.

Please join us in prayer:

• Pray for Pastor Sadera, Mama Nasinka, and others leading East African churches to lean on Jesus as they face the challenges of pastoring.
• Ask God for wisdom as we strive to address training needs here in practical ways.

Thank you for training East African believers like Pastor Sadera and Mama Nasinka to minister to needs where they serve. You are making life-changing impacts.

*Names changed

Sadera* thought he was a Christian until he realized he wasn’t. He has been a teacher at the Maasai school for several years. We met him when he volunteered to help with the Vacation Bible School (VBS) we led at his school. During the VBS sessions, we presented a simple version of the gospel from “Creation to Christ.” While we knew the children were unfamiliar with the full gospel story, Sadera confessed this was also new to him. After hearing the presentation throughout the week, Sadera chose to follow Christ. Now, he understands his need for a Savior and can share it with his students.

Opportunities to share Christ and make disciples among the Maasai happen because of the health strategies your generosity supports. Water projects, medical camps, and women’s health training build relationships with the community and enable us to engage people like Sadera. Thank you for joining us in this valuable gospel work.

Recently, our team partnered with Send Relief and a national church to complete a water project in Tanzania with Sadera’s Maasai community. Three rainless years were followed by three months of severe flooding. While the rains have stopped, the land has already returned to dust three months later.

Because of your generosity, we installed an extra 30,000 liters of water storage tanks and rain catchment systems on school roofs and teachers’ housing. This doubled their current capacity for harvesting and storing rain. The additional storage is essential in this very arid bush environment. Because of your gifts, their physical and spiritual lives have improved.

Please join us in prayer:

• Pray for Sadera and other teachers as they work with Maasai students and build relationships that lead to gospel conversations.

• Ask God to help the Maasai people understand the Living Water that can truly quench their thirst and heal their land.

Thank you for joining us in addressing the world’s greatest problem: lostness. Your gifts and prayers for this team enable us to improve the lives of East Africans and share the good news. You are a co-laborer with us in the gospel. We value your partnership!

*Names changed for security

Because you give, hundreds have received healthcare at a medical camp and heard the gospel.

The East Africa Healthcare Strategies team recently took a team of doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, and their families into northern Tanzania to conduct a medical camp with the Maasai people in a remote village. This village is an area with little access to quality healthcare.

Patients walked miles to get to the camp from every direction. Over three days, the team treated almost seven hundred patients for various medical conditions.

At night, those at the camp viewed the Jesus film in Ki Maa, the language of the Maasai. Evangelism teams shared the gospel during the medical camp, and the Holy Spirit moved powerfully. Over three hundred Maasai people prayed to accept Jesus as their Savior!

This camp is one of a series of health interventions our team is partnering on with Send Relief, including women’s health, healthy pregnancies, and water projects.

We praise God for what He has done and ask for prayers as we use healthcare strategies to share the love of Jesus and improve the lives of the people of East Africa.

Thank you for your generous gifts to East Africa Healthcare Strategies, which make camps like this possible.

Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and the East Africans God calls us to reach. Your prayers and sacrificial giving provide training materials to areas of need, conduct community training in women’s and children’s health, buy medicine and supplies for medical teams, and cover travel costs to send teams into remote bush areas to conduct trainings and medical camps.

Health training deepens relationships. In August 2023, thanks to your generosity, our team took 10 people, including national pastors, a women’s health trainer, and perinatal nurses, to conduct a women’s health training for a group of Maasai women in a remote bush village. Thirty-four women attended the events, with four committing to be trainers and to take the knowledge gained to their peers in the surrounding villages. God used this training to teach both the Maasai and our team many things. We learned more about Maasai culture and their environment and how these impact the health of their people.

The men on the team met with nine Maasai pastors from other villages to connect our urban pastors with their rural counterparts. Everyone involved learned a great deal, and we are already planning another trip to reach other villages. This trip will include walking alongside the four new trainers as they teach women from nine churches while the men do healthy church and pastoral training for the pastors. This is the power of community health evangelism reproducibility.

Water filters improve quality of life. We also followed up on our water project from earlier this year. Praise God! The impact was immediate and powerful. Since the people began using the water filters we brought in, no one with filters has gotten sick from drinking the water. Children are not missing school, and there have been no deaths from water-borne illnesses in this community since they began using the filters. This fall, we plan another trip to take additional water filters to other areas to impact their communities similarly. These healthcare strategies allow us to form deep relationships within the Maasai people group, facilitating the sharing of the gospel and equipping and empowering Maasai pastors and churches to send out their own missionaries.

We are so thankful for you, our partners, who make this project possible. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.