PROGRESS OF THE PEACEMAKERS RESOURCE CENTRE KENYA

Members of the Peacemakers UK Team visited Kenya in February & March this year to oversee the work and progress of the Centre. You will see from the photograph below, that the Prayer House was near completion.


Peacemakers International - Runyenjes Prayer House.

Pastor Selesio Njiriru, one of the Peacemakers’ Team in Kenya, is in the foreground.  He is soon to retire from his secular job in Nairobi and will be able to serve the community full time.  Also our long standing friend Patrick Nyaga Kavunguru.  We are all anxious to see this project and vision completed and fully functional and for the local community to be responsible, serving with their gifts, meeting the local needs and for the people locally to benefit.


One of the side rooms for the abandoned baby unit.

I'm now able to inform you that 3 months on, the Prayer House has been finished, the ground around is being leveled, concreted and grassed, followed by the planting of flowers and shrubs.

The furnishings will be purchased within the next 2 months and the Prayer House ready to be used as a retreat and a place for the youth in the area to gather.  The Prayer House will be a multi purpose building and the youth will be able to turn it into a Theatre and perform plays from time to time. It will also be hired out for weddings, conferences etc., as a means of raising money and making it self supportive.

There are 3 adjacent rooms around the rear of the Prayer House, one of them will be turned into an ‘Abandoned Baby’ Refuge/Counseling room, the second a temporary office/side room to stage and the third, which opens into the interior of the Prayer House, a store room/stage.


The land for phase 2 and 3 - a bit of a challenge to say the least!

Draft plans have been drawn up for the second phase and transferred to Kenya for a local Architect to draw and submit for planning permission.

Brenda Marshall