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Update From Dear Sister in Kenya, Lucy Mburu
Below is an update from our dear sister in Kenya, Lucy Mburu. Lucy was one of the first friends we met in Kenya back in 2008! She serves an orphanage, that until last year, often went without adequate food and other supplies needed for the children. Now there are several team members Lucy has helped to organize who work with the kids and recently prepared a meal! It is amazing what can happen when a barren room is filled with love and a bunch of full tummies!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
May 282 min read


Update from Pastor Festus Kimwele in Kenya
Shalom dear friends! We have been struggling to help feed a starving church in Western Kenya. I have known Pastor Festus for many years. At first when we were able to send money we found that our two or three hundred dollars was going to small group of ten or twelve people. They were given fairly large portions because they were afraid there would not be any more so they had better hoard whatever they had. I challenged them to trust God and share equally with as many oth

Pastor Jerry Theckson
May 213 min read


Pool Field Trip - Principal Judy in Kibera, Kenya
OThere is one small, filthy creek in the Kibera slum that everybody depends on for bathing people and animals, and for their drinking and cooking water! Disease is rampant from this open cesspool and most people there have never seen water like you see in these pictures, let alone be able to swim and play in it!! It is a whole new World for the teachers and students, and they are over the moon with delight!!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
May 211 min read


Graceland School - Kibera slums in Kenya
These beautiful faces belong to some of the 130 students that are now in our Graceland School in the Kibera slums of Kenya! Most are kids who have been invited off the dirt roads of one of the poorest slums in the World! Principal Judy Mtulah left a wonderful job with our dear friends at the Kidstar Academy there in Kibera to gather up children who were left to wander in the slums with no place to go. They love school, love belonging and really love lunch!! For many it is t

Pastor Jerry Theckson
May 152 min read


Well Pump and Solar Panels - Eastern Kenya Farm Project
Roughly five years ago we were able to finish drilling and establish a deep water well that miraculously exploded like a geyser when we broke through! It was a long term dream that was finally realized from a gift given in memory of our dear sister Joan Hess! The water is not only used to irrigate our crops but the whole community, which often spends hours/day searching for clean water, can come and take, freely, as much as they want for their own needs! What an amazing Gr

Pastor Jerry Theckson
May 151 min read


Lucy Mburu Orphanage Ministries
Our dear sister in Kenya, Lucy Mburu, works with an orphanage that cares for children who are in desperate need of every basic provision, especially love! We have been sending $300/ month for food and hygiene needs but recently enough resources have come in to start sending $400/ month which will allow them not only to eat regularly but also be able to take in others who are in the same brutal situation!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Apr 201 min read


Update from Pastor Festus Kimwele in Kenya
Shalom dear loving followers of the Lord Jesus! As many of you know, in addition to Graceland School, we support a village church and community in Western Kenya. Like many other places in Africa people there are starving. Pastor Festus Kimwele and his wife Dorcas are dear friends and servants of Jesus! They and their community often go days without eating...

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Apr 192 min read


From Lucy Mburu in Kenya
God’s love and blessings dear friends! Jesus said, “whatever you do for one of the least of these, you do for Me!” Matt. 25:40. Below is a report from our dear sister Lucy Mburu who God has called out to serve the orphans and the elderly, in Kenya! It is such a privilege to help with the resource God has given us to care for those who are hungry and disregarded as unimportant and a burden!!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Mar 71 min read


Principal Judy Mtulah Update on Graceland School
God’s richest blessings and love dear friends!! This blog report is from our dear sister, principal Judy Mtulah! She left a good paying job with a private Christian School to pull children as young as 15 months old off the slums in Kibera and bring them to her own little shanty without support from any other source but the day-by-day provision of the Living God!!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Mar 63 min read


Report from Pastor Festus in Kenya
Blessings dear servants of the Living God, Creator of Heaven and Earth and all that is in Them!!! Acts 17:24,25. This is our latest report from our dear pastor Festus. We have been trying to send $300 every other month to his starving church and the surrounding community in Western Kenya. Our hope this year, as long as God provides, is to send $300 every month to help as many as we can!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Feb 143 min read


Update from Lucy in Nairobi, Kenya
Shalom dear ones! Lucy has sent an update after our February support reached her in Nairobi. Lucy has been walking with us since we first visited Kenya in 2008. She serves widows, orphans (James 1:27) and the Elderly! Dear Dad, How are you and Mum Sue. By the Grace of God I went to visit the kids on Saturday and shopped what I managed for them. I shared God's word with them...

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Feb 141 min read


Update from Pastor Festus Kimwele in Kenya
One of the very pressing needs in Kenya is the starving villagers out in the Country! Many of them move into the horrific slums in hopes of finding food and then get stuck there!
We have been sending an average of $300 every other month to help pastor Festus Kimwele’s church and community, whom I have known for several years. They go several days at a time without anything to eat- so they call those ‘fasting’ days and pray to God for help!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Jan 192 min read


Note from Lucy Mburu in Kenya
Lucy Mburu has been a friend of everyone we have taken with us to Kenya, Africa since 2008!
She has an almost overwhelming passion for Jesus and the salvation of souls everywhere she goes!
We have been supporting her in a growing ministry to orphans and the Elderly- both of which are suffering tragically during the current drought and food shortages in Kenya!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Jan 161 min read


Update from Enos Mutokah in Nairobi
Our ZOOM team was asked in January of 2025 to help Amson Learning Ctr. (Enos’ school in the Madera slums) with a scholarship fund that helps kids attend school whose parents can’t afford the ten dollars a month school fees plus materials. We contribute $300/month to this program and are praying that God will allow us to continue supporting this life-line ministry that provides for kids who otherwise would have no access to formal education…

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Jan 101 min read


"Thanks!" An Update from Kenya Graceland School
We are in the last month of 2025 and are humbled by God’s faithful provision throughout the entire year for the staff and children at Graceland School in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya! Besides providing daily food, school materials, basic support for staff and volunteers we have been able to send them on three field trips this year!

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Dec 19, 20252 min read


Update from Kenya Graceland School
Shalom dear friends in Christ! I am humbled by the magnificent way God always provides for us! But even more humbling is the great privilege the Lord has given us to provide for others. A sweet couple in our fellowship circle was challenged by the Holy Spirit ...

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Apr 12, 20251 min read


Notes from Lucy Njeri in Kenya
Two notes from our dear sister in Christ-Lucy Njeri. Lucy loves the Lord with her whole heart and her ministry is to serve the forgotten-

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Mar 9, 20252 min read


Update from Graceland School
Shalom dear ones! Love, food, care and sanitation are life and death issues in the slums and many of these children would be victims

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Feb 8, 20251 min read


Update from Dr. Lev
Shalom and a blessed NEW YEAR dear lovers of Jesus! We continue to walk with the dear brothers and sisters in each of the Countries God

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Jan 6, 20252 min read


Report from Graceland School
O Shalom dear friends! What a privilege it is to follow Jesus Christ together in these last days!! I have to confess though...

Pastor Jerry Theckson
Dec 11, 20244 min read
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