When we heard about this rural Kenyan community working for sustainability for orphans through agriculture, you know we had to learn more. Our Board Chaplain, David Goodyear, has spent a lot of time in East Africa supporting The James Project, and it’s been a joy to go deeper with Meshach and Elizabeth, the founders.

We’re starting off 2025 with a quick look at The James Project in Kenya, where a team recently visited our partners in the region and were thrilled to meet this young farmer, Peter.

Our Board Chaplain recently returned from a trip to rural Kenya, where he spent time with our friends at The James Project. As many of you know, the project focuses on supporting widows and orphans in a region of Kenya known for famine and food insecurity.

The people in these images above have said they want to move away from aid handouts and toward something more sustainable. They want to produce their own food so they can keep orphans and widows safe in their community, and that’s a next step that excites us!

Your giving is making some beautiful things possible here in rural Kenya, and we took some time during out last trip to show you some of them. Thanks to all of you who keep showing up to support people in Kenya, especially as they work for sustainability!

Beatrice understands God’s call to love our neighbor, and she takes it seriously by constantly volunteering to help. The woman is the epitome of a self-starter servant…

In a small region of Kenya outside the capital city of Nairobi, one local couple named Meshach and Elizabeth are using their God-given time and talents to serve widows and orphans in their area, and their out-of-the-box thinking and willingness to just try things for the sake of the Kingdom is absolutely beautiful.

When his father died to HIV-AIDS and his mother went missing, Shadrach’s story could have ended like so many other orphans in his area…