Ongoing Global Missional Relationship
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Tree Church Project with the Anglican Diocese of Marsabit, Kenya
As of 2022 we are in our eighth year of a church building project that started when our then Director of Children’s Ministries attended a diocesan event in which African bishops shared their ministry experiences and needs. One, Bp. Rob Martin of Marsabit (the current Bishop is Daniel Qampicha Wario), showed pictures of his people worshiping under trees. Our heart was touched and donations for a church building began with our children’s events and then spread to the whole congregation. We raised enough to partner with another church in our diocese to build the first church in a community called Game. We subsequently held 5K Run/Walks to raise the $20,000 it takes to build a church annually. In recent years, we have instead held a special donation Sunday in October - an annual Tree Church Ingathering - as we continued to fund the building of churches in Elebor, Maikona, Goro Rukesa, Badasa and Laisamis (construction at Laisamis is not completed of early 2022). In addition to these six churches, we have also funded the construction of diocesan Guest Houses so that guest fees can go toward minister salaries in the Tree Church churches. The La Gonave Haiti Partnership We have been involved with this consortium of churches and other organizations for many years, supporting economic, educational and medical development on the Haitian island of La Gonave through the Episcoapl Diocese of Haiti. We have sent mission groups in the past, the last being a medical trip in 2014 and a Vacation Bible School and building trip in 2015. The Outreach portion of our annual parish operating budget continues to include money for teacher salaries at the school run by the Church of the Holy Spirit in the community of Gros Mangles on La Gonave. |
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