ABOUT US

Who We Are

Statement of Faith

Dave and Joy Mueller

Board of Directors

WHO WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

WHY WE ARE DOING IT

WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER SIMILAR MINISTRIES

HOW WE ARE DOING IT

We are an efficient Christian non-profit ministry engaged in establishing Hope Centers in rural 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 isvery 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.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosever believeth in Him should not perish

The Legacy of

DAVE AND JOY MUELLER

Dave and Joy gave their lives in service to "the least of these" among the Maasai people. They led Kenya Hope from 2010 until October 25, 2023, when they were tragically killed in a road accident in Narok, Kenya. With their own hands they honed and refined Kenya Hope's unique ministry model of Hope Centers and partnering with US congregations to build bridges of compassion for the Gospel. They would want to be remembered for the Widows Might program and widespread distribution of the audio Bible (mostly in Maasai) that personally brought the Good News of Jesus Christ to a neglected and unreached people group. At least a dozen Maasai communities will long be grateful for the deep wells and water systems Dave installed, providing safe water for the very first time to at least 200 families in each location. Nearly 250 widows have been given hope and a means to support their families through the Widows Might program.