January 2015

KISUMUKENYA

DANIEL & SARAH ALBITZ FAMILY

Greetings
fr om Kenya!
Heres t he latest
news fr om our
family!

MISSIONS

Our mission is to Equip pastors & leaders through biblical training, Educate people
about health, hygiene & nutrition, and Empower men & women through small-business
mentorship and skills training.
Happy New Year to all of our dear
friends and supporters! We feel so
privileged to be partners in ministry with

2014 was a defining year for us. While

we continued adjusting to life here during
the earlier months, our vision became

you! Together we have restored lives and

helped in transformingcommunities. We
have fed the hungry (spiritually &
physically), empowered new leaders,
healed the sick, and literally saved lives!

clear and our ministry grew stronger as

we finished the year. We have learned a
lot through our experiences serving here
and the more we learn the more we've
developed a vision for holistic ministry.

None of this would have been possible

without you! Thank you for prayers,
generous contributions, and
encouragement!
We thank God for His faithfulness

Please pray for continued provision and

protection for our family, and that God
would restore lives and transform
communities as we minister holistically in
villages.

throughout the past 2 years in Kenya.

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We are missionaries to
Africa, working with
indigenous leaders in
Kenya. We aim to restore
lives and transform
communities through
holistic ministry.

WHAT WEVE
BEEN UP TO

Things we accomplished
together in 2014
One of the most significant ways weve

becoming sustainable. Since there is a good

demand for chicken in the market, we've made
further arrangements to bring in a poultry
professional to train even more people. We

served here, has been to teach and encourage

want to teach and empower pastors and leaders

pastors and their congregations. Of the 8

who will be a positive example to others in the

churches we work with, 6 are in villages and 2

community.

are in towns. These planted churches often

January third, marks one full year of

become involved in improving the community by

Samuel living in our home. He came to us as

providing various opportunities for men, women

anorphan with with intestinal worms and severe

and children. Through ministering to these

malaria. He was skinny, weak, malnourished

pastors and teaching in their churches, weve

and near death. After his mother passed away,

had the opportunity to lead people to faith in

he became even more vulnerable and there was

Jesus Christ, help them to overcome challenges

no one to take him in. When we picked him up

and achieve sustainable transformation in their

in his rural village home, we didn't know what

lives.

the outcome would be of this malnourished and

Weve been leading a small fellowship of

feverish baby. Would he live or would he die?

school teachers in Barkorwa village which we

We know from the book of Jeremiah that God

hope will grow into a church in 2015. While the

says He has a 'hope and a future' for each one

drive is a bit long, and the roads are rough, we

of us, and we believed that in little Samuel's life.

never regret going. Its been great to see these

young leaders grow spiritually, get baptized, and
use what theyve received to teach other
christians within their spheres of influence.
These young and energetic believers are already
making a positive impact in their community and
they are asking us when we can establish a
church in their village!
We've also helped a pastor and some
church leaders start up a poultry business,
raising and selling chickens. It has been a great
opportunity for them learning life-lessons and

planted churches
often become involved in
improving the community by
providing various
opportunities for men,
women and children

Helping
strengthen
pastors and
leaders in new
churches

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September 2013

December 2014

Today one year later, he is parasite-free,

for people currently in business and people

healthy and strong. He is smart, happy, and

interested in starting a business. Thirdly, we are

speaks english! It's hard to imagine that he

conducting Health, Hygiene & Nutrition

would have been buried next to his mother not

Education seminars in villageswhere

long after her death. We know that The Lord

thechurches are planted.

has shown his love, mercy and redemption

Please pray for continued provision and

through Samuel's life. He has a future and a

protection for our family, and that God would

hope! His story has changed our lives forever,

restore lives and transform communities as we

and spoken volumes to the people around us of

minister holistically together. Stay tuned for

God's timely intervention. We are often the

more updates!

answer to someone else's prayers.

New things starting in 2015

Through our experiences here, we've
learned that ignorancethe lack of knowledge, is
the reason so many people suer and fail to
reach their full potential. When we are able to
help people develop spiritually, physically, and
intellectually, we will mobilize them to reach their
next level. We aim to equippastors & leaders
with biblical training, educatepeople on health,
hygiene & nutrition, and empowermen & women
through small-business and skills training.
This year we are teaching a12-Month
Biblical Foundations course for pastors & church
leaders. We also will have an ongoingSmall-

HOLISTIC
MINISTRY

Thank you f or your fr iendshi p & support!

Love,
Daniel , Sarah, G l or ia, Noah & Andrew
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Our ministry is made
possible through generous
contributions from
friends like you.
Want to discus how to
join our support team,
get involved in a project
or just want to say hi?
We'd love to connect with
you. Send us a message at
Daniel.Albitz@gmail.com

Business Mentorship & Skills Training meeting

When we are able to

help people develop spiritually,
physically, and intellectually,
we will mobilize them
to reach their next level.

Training
childrens
ministry
leaders

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