Overseas Projects

Building the Church in the Wiyumiririe District of Kenya
St Andrew’s has always taken it’s giving overseas as a very important role in it’s mission work. We have been lucky in the fact that we have had first hand contact in the form of Robert Williams a Teacher and Managing Director of the Braeburn group of schools in Kenya (braeburn web link). He returns to this country on a yearly basis with his Kenyan wife and family to visit relatives in Stewton, but was brought up and educated in Lincolnshire.

With his guidance we have been able to give on a yearly basis, and have been sure that our giving has been used entirely for the purpose, to which it was meant, namely to build a church in the Wiyummiririe District of Kenya.
This project has now been completed, and Mr Williams was able to be present at the opening ceremony, for which hundreds of people walked for miles, to come to the new Church. This project took place over a ten year period. We have been given a video of the event.

Quote from a letter received from the Church in Africa read:

" Thanks to Almighty God and your kindness we have a house we can worship the Lord in"

"We tender our heartfelt thanks for the kindness you have shown to us"

These comments were very humbling.

Orphanage for Aids Children
During Mr Williams visit last July, he told us that the Church congregation in Kenya, were busy setting up an orphanage for babies and children suffering from Aids. Their parents had either died of the disease or were too ill to care for them. He explained to us that the children at present had been taken in by other families or relatives, but this was not sustainable so an orphanage was necessary to care for them. He said that the drugs to fight Aids could be bought cheaply in Kenya, but even with these many of the children would not be saved. St Andrew’s at Stewton have decided to help as much as possible with this new project.

New projects

Mathenya School Classroom

We have since this time, built a goat unit to provide fresh milk for villages, and built a school for children and adults with learning difficulties.  Mr Williams advises us that other contributions have now been received thanks to our help, and a further school has now been built.

We have now forwarded funds to Kenya to construct another classroom for the special needs children at Mathenya school.  This project will solely be funded by Stewton Church.  Pauline Williams is in the process of identifying a contractor, and will keep us informed of all progress.  She thanks us all for our continued kindness, and tells us that this project will mean so much to the children, their families and the community at large.

Romania
We are pleased to tell you that our help with our Romanian project, has now completed it's work, and that the VMFH is now completely self funded, we are pleased to have helped it to succeed.