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How you can support ministries in Africa …
Posted: 3/16/07
How you can support ministries in Africa …
Give time.
Personally share the love of Christ with children and individuals in need of physical, emotional and spiritual aid. The Buckner missions’ office can arrange a trip for members of one church, or individuals can partner with another church group. Ministry opportunities include:
• Pure Religion: Volunteers export hope to African orphans
• Buckner Kenya leader pours himself into poor children
• “If it cost me my life to save 1 child, I still would come”
• How you can support ministries in Africa …
• See Ken Camp's original Africa dispatches here.• Spend time caring for the 20 babies who will reside in the Buckner Baby Home
• Plan activities to engage foster children in Addis Ababa or children of Bantu
03/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Pure Religion: Volunteers export hope to African orphans
Posted: 3/19/07
Residents of the Baptist Children’s Center in Nairobi tell a Buckner International team “asante”—Swahili for “thank you.” (Photos by Ken Camp) Pure Religion:
Volunteers export hope to African orphansBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
NAIROBI, Kenya—Peter sat shoulder-to-shoulder with other children on a bare wooden bench. Like his classmates, he was dressed in blue and white—the uniform of the Kariobangi Baptist Youth Center.
The children’s uniforms were anything but uniform. Some students wore blue and white checked shirts or dresses. Others wore blue and white stripes. In spite of the warm day, others wore sweaters—often frayed at the cuffs and neckline—in varying shades of blue.
Children join in Bible study and worship at the Munyao Memorial Baptist Chapel on the campus of Nairobi’s Baptist Children’s Center. But the students were uniformly bright-eyed and smiling, in sharp contrast to the many toddlers, children and teens who aimlessly roamed the streets of the surrounding Korogocho slum.
03/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Buckner Kenya leader pours himself into poor children
Posted: 3/19/07
Buckner Kenya leader pours
himself into poor childrenBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
NAIROBI, Kenya—Children surround Dickson Masindano as he walks the 13.5-acre campus of the Baptist Children’s Center in the Dandora section of Nairobi, clamoring for his attention.
Youngsters from the Baptist Children’s Center in Nairobi surround Dickson Masindano (right), director of Buckner Kenya, and Tom Okore, mission director for Buckner Kenya. (Photo by Ken Camp) For nearly five years, they—and the other 1.7 million orphaned and abandoned children of Kenya—not only have had his attention, but also have captured his heart.
03/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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‘If it cost me my life to save 1 child, I still would come’
Posted: 3/19/07
Getahun Tesema with children in cared for by Bright Hope ministry in Ethiopia, which he founded. (Photo by Ken Camp) ‘If it cost me my life to save
1 child, I still would come’By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
ADDIS ADABA, Ethiopia—Getahun Tesema successfully escaped from Ethiopia during civil war 20 years ago. But he could not escape a single image that gripped him on a return visit to his homeland.
“I saw a child in a dumpster, eating what he could find. I couldn’t stop crying. The Lord moved me and used that to call me to Ethiopia.
03/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Dispatches: New regulations slow us down
Posted: 2/18/07
Dispatches: New regulations slow us down
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Saturday, Feb. 17, Nairobi
We made connections in London with the other members of our team, Ken and Linda Hall from Buckner; Jay and Paige Chastain from Longview; and Steve Akin and Kyle and Cindy Henderson from Athens.
03/16/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Slums, churches and a new hope
Posted: 2/18/07
Jay Chastain from Longview at Baptist Children's Center in Nairobi. (Photos by Ken Camp) Dispatches: Slums, churches and a new hope
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Sunday, Feb. 18, Nairobi—Baptist Children's Center
Today we visited the beautiful kids at the Baptist Children's Center. The center is on a 13.5 acre complex in eastern Nairobi in the Dandora area–right in the middle of a horrible slum where about 200,000 people live in deplorable conditions. Dickson Masindano, the director of Buckner's Kenya work, was our host.
David Slover of Buckner at Baptist Children's Center in Nairobi. 03/16/2007 - By John Rutledge
