About Us - Kenya Hope

Kenya Hope is a Christian, nonprofit ministry serving Maasai communities and in the Kibera Slums

WHO WE ARE

We are an efficient Christian non-profit ministry engaged in establishing Hope Centers in rural Maasai Kenya (as well as the Kibera slum of Nairobi) that offers comprehensive and holistic ministries to uplift and empower some of the most vulnerable people in these forgotten places.

WHAT WE DO

We carry out educational, agricultural, medical and spiritual ministries in cooperation with local communities that have set aside space and have committed to working with us in these efforts. We call these "Hope Centers," where we build bridges for the Gospel.

WHY WE ARE DOING IT

The compassion of Christ drives us to alleviate human suffering and to proclaim the Gospel to the lost in a way that is sustainable and holistic.

WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER SIMILAR MINISTRIES

While many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) in Kenya are working with water, education, medicine, or evangelism, we seek to bring these all together in identified communities of need. In addition, we connect a local church in the US with a designated Hope Center, in a ten-year partnership, in order to have maximum impact.

HOW WE ARE DOING IT

We promote and enlist child and widow sponsorships from our USA constituency. This enables us to keep children in school and to guide widows through a 24-month program that empowers them to support themselves. In addition, we recruit US congregations to send teams to engage in hands on ministries in our Hope Centers.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God; the only complete and final revelation of God to man; and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions should be tried.

WE BELIEVE that God is spirit and infinite; that the Godhead eternally exists in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and that these three are one God.

WE BELIEVE in the absolute Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; that He is very God existing from eternity, coequal with the Father and the Holy Spirit; that in His humanity He never ceased to be God; and that He was miraculously begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.

WE BELIEVE that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, triumphing over all evil, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person; that He is equal with the Father and the Son, that He convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment, bears witness to the truth; that He guides, teaches, and indwells every true child of God and that with Him the believer is given power and sealed in Christ until the day of redemption.

WE BELIEVE that God created the heavens and the earth, including all life each after its own kind, by a direct act and not by the process of evolution.

WE BELIEVE the Scriptures teach that men and women are created in God’s image. Adam was created by a direct act of God as described in Genesis 1 and not from any previously existing form of life. By voluntary transgression he fell from his state of innocence, in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners by nature and by choice and therefore under just condemnation to everlasting, conscious punishment, separated from God.

WE BELIEVE in the existence of Satan, sin and evil powers, and that all these have been defeated by God in the cross of Christ.

WE BELIEVE in the blessed hope that Jesus Christ will soon return to this earth, personally, visibly, and unexpectedly, in power and great glory, to gather His elect, to raise the dead, to judge the nations, and to bring His

Kingdom to fulfillment.

WE BELIEVE that the purpose of the Church on earth is to preach the Gospel of Christ, to worship God, to remember Christ's death through the ordinance of the Lord’s supper, and to proclaim our faith through baptism.

Board of Directors

We are grateful to the following men and women who sacrifice their time, talents and treasure to guide Kenya Hope as board members and make it a success to the glory of God.

Eric Hoogstra

Chairman

John Mulder

Interim Executive Director

Steven Snyder

Secretary

Randy Vanderlugt

Treasurer

Board Members: Janet Liljestrand, Kathleen Sindorf, Lloyd Schout, Jerry Gewe, Ryan Hoogstra.

James 1:27 ESV

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained from the world."