African Christian Church and Schools

Erica with Patrick Miana and Henry Mwangi

of the African Christian Church & Schools' development department

African Christian Church & Schools' headquarters, Thika, Kenya

On Monday, we travelled along beautifully green coffee fields and pineapple plantations on our way to Thika to visit with our colleagues serving with the African Christian Church & Schools. Since 2004, the ACC&S has founded nine Guardians of Hope projects throughout Kenya. Please pray for the leadership in each of these projects as they meet this week in Thika to help one another in planning for next year's ministry.

Aaron in conversation with Henry and Patrick during the recording for our latest podcast. Together we discussed the impact of the Guardians of Hope within the ACC&S. We hope to have this audio interview posted by the end of the week.

The Thika Community Library

We were also delighted to visit the newly opened Thika Community Library that has been built by the ACC&S in partnership with Canadian Baptist Ministries and American Friends of Kenya. The library will provide access to a growing collection of fiction and nonfiction for the community, as well as students studying within the Bible classes at ACC&S headquarters.

Erica speaking with Eunice Muthoni,

librarian of the Thika Community Library

Eunice is very busy as she sorts through thousands of volumes that have been donated to the library. "It will take us another six months to catalogue everything," shared Eunice. "I am so happy to have so many books for people to read!"

Patrick looking through the wonderful

Children's Reading Section of the library