Faith House Stories

Celebrating Five Years

Faith House celebrated its five-year anniversary in February with a celebration at the Nairobi home. The event was organized as a scavenger hunt, with various stations situated around the Faith House grounds requiring different group activities, culminating with ice cream sundaes in Faith House »

A Faith House Christmas

The first time we celebrated Christmas at Faith House, the trappings and decorations so familiar to us as Americans were just a bit strange to our girls. Most of them marveled at the lighted tree and decorated themselves as well as the tree. But Jane Mwihaki stood back, watching, and asked, »

Prayer Day at Faith House

Between October 18 and November 10, four of our Faith House girls are taking their KCSE exams, as many as 25 different exams, covering all of the high school work these students have done. The results determine what courses they can pursue beyond high school. It is a time of exceptionally high pressure »

In Need of An Advocate

Through most of the spring of this year, Damaris, one of our FH girls who lives with us, has been researching and looking for a good nursing school, perhaps a Christian school, in a place not so big as Houston. In May, as soon as she graduated from Lone Star Community College, just north of Houston, »

Trained and Ready to Teach

In July 2011 Juliah graduated from Bunks Early Childhood Education College in Nairobi with a diploma in Montessori Early Childhood Education. She is currently interviewing for a job and hopes one day to take further courses in special education. During her training she was especially moved by a few »

Photoblog – 2010 Grad Safari

In November 2010, Faith House took its six graduates from Danana Secondary School and Wiltrue Secondary School on safari in Sweetwaters game preserve in central Kenya. The area is home to lions, elephants, rhinos, and many other animals common in the breathtaking preserves throughout Kenya. This »