3. Sammy Letoole,
the first Samburu
Friend trained at
Friends Theological
College, is now
serving as the
Mission Director.
God is doing
exciting things in
Samburu!
4. Samburu Friends
Mission is now a
fully
“indigenous”
church, a
mission of the
Samburu
people, for their
community
5. The new leaders opened a local bank
account, and are fully responsible for
managing the mission’s money
6. The mission treasurer and the monthly
meeting treasurer are so proud to have
made the first bank deposits of their lives
7. The staff of the mission are nearly all
Samburu Friends
8. Samburu Mission has two full meetings
and two new church plants. This is Lorian
Friends Church.
9. This is Malalwa Friends Church and
nursery school, the newest church plant
10. Here are the youth members of
Loltulelei Friends Church
11. The leaders of Loltulelei Friends
Church inside the new meetinghouse
41. Most adult Samburu women are illiterate.
Samburu Mission runs an adult literacy
program to teach these women
42. Children who
work full-time
tending the
family’s animals
come to a special
night school
called “Shepherd
School”. This is
the only program
of its type in
Samburu.
43. It is very difficult for a family to pay
for secondary school, and girls are
often left behind. Samburu Mission
sponsors 10 girls in secondary school.
54. An Empowerment Center will offer
much-needed goods and services to
the community while also serving as a
vocational training center and
providing
an income
stream for
the mission.
55. Lorian Church
members are doing
the planning of this
project. They started
out by identifying
goods and services that are needed by the
community and that have a strong chance
of being profitable. Currently, people
travel to Maralal for these services, about
an hour by motorcycle, at a cost of $10
round trip.
56. Motorcycles are the most common form
of public transportation. They are in
constant need of repair
57. Business services like photocopying,
typing and email are in very high demand,
and computer classes are greatly needed
58. School supplies and text books can’t be
bought in Loosuk, yet every child is
required to have them.
59. Sewing of school uniforms
and dresses is a profitable
business and a desirable
vocational skill
60. A guest house with meeting rooms, like
this one in Maralal, would allow many
different groups to hold community
mobilization events in Loosuk.
61. Friends are called to impact their
community as well as generate income to
sustain the mission work.
62. The gospel of Jesus Christ is changing
lives in Samburu