Projects: PEFA Mercy Medical Clinic, Ndumberi, Kenya

After Capital Christian Center completed an investigational trip in 2002, a partnership with Capital Christian and the Kenya PEFA church was born to bring medical care to the people of Ndumberi, Kenya. In 2003 and 2004, teams made up of members from Capital Christian Center and Genesis returned to Kenya and served over 2200 people in temporary medical clinics as well as an additional 300 individuals who were ministered to by the Children’s ministries over the two years.

Upon the return from Kenya in 2004 a group of like-mined individuals from across the Treasure Valley with a heart for Africa joined together to form the Kenya Coalition. The dream and desire to establish a permanent medical clinic in Ndumberi for its residents grew out of this coalition – thus plans were drawn up, land was purchased, a well was drilled and the first floor of the clinic was built – with the help of a team from Eagle Nazarene Church by the summer of 2006.

Once the clinic building was finished in 2007, Genesis World Mission worked together with Hands of Hope Northwest to send medical equipment and supplies to equip the clinic and prepare for patients. By summer’s end, Kenyan medical professionals were hired and the PEFA Mercy Medical Center opened its doors.

With the Kenya Coalition’s dream materialized the group officially yielded the planning, development, and fundraising responsibilities to Genesis World Mission.

Today this clinic is still running six days a week and provides more than 26,000 patient visits each year. In 2009, it expanded to provide dental services. The clinic has heard many testimonies from their patients of the kind, professional, and affordable medical treatment they are receiving. In 2011, the clinic opened up long-awaited dream of theirs: a maternity ward which will provide safe delivery of children in a country which is ranked 44 out of 49 for maternal and neonatal health.¹  Moving towards self-sustainability with support from its own community, the PEFA Mercy Medical Centre is one model of success in partnerships that Genesis World Mission has been privileged to be a part of.