What if you were never given the opportunity to attend school?

What if you passed your eighth grade exams…but there was no chance to go to ninth grade?

Approximately 80% of young women in Kenya are unable to attend high school.  Normally, high school is expensive.  It is a privilege to be given the chance to further their education.

		Upon arrival at Bethesda House

Now imagine you’re an orphan. Orphaned children in Africa are crowded into small homes.  These group homes have no choice but to turn the girls out to the streets at the tender ages of 12-15 years.  The homes simply can’t afford to keep the girls as they enter high school age.  Most will become farmers or wives at very young ages. Prostitution, rape and the sale of these girls into marriage is on the rise. 

Unfortunately, we cannot do everything to stop this crisis in Kenya and Africa, but we are doing something significant by now opening our home to thirty (30) young women each year.  They will attend a private international school, live in a family setting and dare to dream of a better future. We trust this is a start of a growing effect to transform the lives of an ever-increasing number of young women. We call this hub of transformation “The Bethesda House.”

		One month after arriving. Within a month we a saw dramatic change in these precious girls.

We need your help!  My husband and I have been missionaries in Kenya since 2003. We have the opportunity to purchase five acres we live on in order to build and, in some cases, repair the existing homes on the property. ...Continue