This week we received a thank-you note from Daylight Center, one of our ministry partners, which runs a school-and-more for tribal children in rural northwestern Kenya. Rev. Eliot Howard, a member of Daylight’s U.S. Board of Directors, writes in part: This month all students are starting the new school year. This would not have happened…
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This past year has been a challenging year to all of us in many different ways and Daylight School is no exception. Classes have been delayed and staff has worked diligently to update the health and safety precautions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve added many hand washing stations, health monitoring and sanitizing procedures. And…
Rosemary is a volunteer and mother of four students at Daylight Center and School (one of our partner outreach ministries). Her daughter Thelma recently graduated from the eighth grade, top of her class. Thelma qualified to go to a top high school in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. In Kenya, High School is not free…
EMC pulled out all the stops for Mardis Gras worship and a pancake breakfast — complete with music by the Dixiecats — on Sunday, Feb. 11. While middle-schoolers and high school students set the tables and cooked up sausages and pancakes, elementary school kids made prayer books that EMC missioners will bring to the Daylight…
It’s like a word problem from an elementary math class: “If a goat costs $100 and you raise $868, how many goats can you buy?” That was the surprising outcome when the EMC congregation exceeded their goal for Kenya’s Daylight School, a partner of our congregation. When school director Michael Kimpur was asked if the school…