Faith Children’s Home Ministries
Migori, Kenya
by Chris Hindal, GARBC international ministries director
Esther Ossoyi (oh-SOY-ee) lives in Kenya, East Africa. She is a nurse and is married to a pastor. Mrs. Ossoyi loves and helps orphans whose parents died from a terrible disease called AIDS.
Mrs. Ossoyi started the Faith Children’s Home in the church in Migori (mi-GOR-ee). Thirty-nine children live there. The youngest is two, and the oldest is fi fteen. Many of them have a disability—an illness or injury that makes life harder for them. These children sleep on woven mats on the cement floor in two Sunday School classrooms. They have no running water so they can’t get water out of a faucet. They do not have an indoor bathroom. They eat rice once a day. It is cooked outside on an open fi re. They go to their town school, but it goes only to sixth grade.
Meet Faith and Kennedy
Faith’s father died when Faith was two years old. Faith has deformed legs that keep her from walking, although she has had some help and can now stand by herself. For a while, Faith and her mother lived with relatives, but they had to leave. So Faith’s mother took Faith to a hospital, hoping someone would care for her. That is when Mrs. Ossoyi took Faith and started caring for her. Kennedy looks fi ve years old, but he is really fi fteen. Because of his birth defects, his family members abandoned him after his parents died. (A birth defect is a disability that a baby is born with.) Mrs. Ossoyi took Kennedy to live at the children’s home.
God loves the thirty-nine orphans who live at the Faith Children’s Home, and He has given them Pastor and Mrs. Ossoyi to raise them with Christian love.