Cheppema Hope Center: Nukuru District

Cheppema is one of our newer Hope Centers. Pastor William Kotut began taking needy children into his own home, and treating them as if they were his own. Soon he had 14 children living in his home and their care was beyond what Pastor William and his wife could manage. It was time to start the Cheppema Hope Center!

We held our first Seminar in October 2002 to help the people in their daily family life by teaching them how to walk in God’s ways. In March of 2003, a new church was built by Summer Mission Teams from the Chippewa Falls Evangelical Free Church in Beaver Falls, PA together with a team from the Autumn Ridge Church in Rochester MN. These same teams built the clinic and one duplex housing unit in 2004. What a blessing it is to work with God’s people on the building teams. We want to clearly be able to see and meet the needs of the Cheppema community, and are striving to develop this Hope Center in like manner to the other Hope Centers in our care.

Today we have 85 children living in temporary housing while we build a permanent house for the children. The Hope House is nearly ready and we eagerly look forward to its completion. A school has been started and the children are doing very well. We now have 2 permanent classrooms and temporary classrooms through the 8th grade.

We are planning to make the school at Cheppema a boarding school for poor and needy children who need a place to live in order to attend school. We still need two dorms, four teacher’s duplex housing units, a dining hall and kitchen and a two-room pre-school building.

These children once lived on the streets of our cities, but are today in our children’s home. They are happy and learning well in our school.

God continues to use this Hope Center in wonderful ways and we praise Him for our staff and the work that is done at Cheppema.

Meet some of the children from Cheppema that currently need sponsors.