Building before the slurry coat and painting.
Thank you Darin for donating your time and paint to finish the building.
Back of house with finished sidewalks. Hopefully this will keep the mud down.
Above is the main building housing Jeff, Carla, kids and mission teams. We are bursting at the seams! We are raising funds for the boys dorm to be built ASAP. The building will be two-stories with room for 60 – 80 boys. The foundation is poured and we have the materials for the outside shell of the first floor and are raising funds for the rest.
Meet Sean and Meredith Stewart. They have joined our team as houseparents for the boys. They will be living at the compound and helping with the kids. Sean will be teaching Christianity in our school and will also be helping Jeff where he is needed. Sean has been through the Tindale Course and Seminary in 2001. Meredith graduated high school in 1995 with both her diploma and BA in business. Both her and Sean have served with Transform International in Kitale, Kenya. Because of their love for children, they are now on staff with RMISF.
Dorm’s
If you would like to donate to the boys dorm, medical clinic, the Stewart’s or any of the other projects, go to the donation page, (be sure and specify where your donation is to go).
We have built two classrooms. The first room is a combined class for the older kids, then a kinder class. In the veranda we have a pre-school class (it is attached to the front of the main building and also used as a dining room/play room). Our goal is to build 2-4 classrooms a year so our school grows with our kids. We hope to have the school open to the public when completed. This will help make us self-supporting.
Pre-school class below. Love this picture of the pre-schoolers waiting for everyone to head out and play.
We also have a wonderful play area that was been built by one of our mission teams. This building is a covered and screened area for the babies. They can get fresh air and can play without all of the bugs and creepy crawlers.
Meet Ashlee Wood (here with the kids). She helped one of the teams paint the play area inside and out. Yes! It’s “Barney and Friends”. Ashlee spent six months here at RMISF. The kids loved her. She is now married to Daniel Lipparelli, Director of Transform International, Kitale, Kenya.
We have swings, monkey bars and the only baby swings in Kenya that hold eight kids each. Below, a wooden pikpik (motorcycle) that was built by Terry Kiser from Anacortes, WA.
This video was taken by Mama Carla.
Now for a tour of the inside of the house. Below is the diningroom/playroom combined and pre-school class during the day.
The main part of the house where Jeff, Carla and the kids live, now has triple-decker bunk beds in all but the big girls room and the nursery. We really are wall to ceiling beds!
Sittingroom and one bedroom before the triple bunk beds and below what it looks like today.
