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Partner Spotlight: Just One Africa

After traveling to Kenya in 2012 and visiting an orphanage, Amy and her husband Clay Churchill decided they would start an organization helping high capacity local leaders in Kenya who were working hard to improve their communities. After returning home from their trip, Amy and Clay, partnered with another couple, Alastair and Geanna Wilde, to start Just One Africa. One of the biggest focuses of the organization is to provide clean water access to communities in Kenya. The idea formed during that initial Kenya trip when community leaders shared their ongoing struggle with water borne diseases.  While helping build a hut for a woman in Western Kenya, Churchill realized that a very sick baby was living there. The mother of the baby had HIV and was very also very sick and unable to nurse the child. The baby’s father had died of HIV and the grandfather of the baby was also deceased. The owner of the hut was the baby’s grandmother, and she was doing the best she could to … [Read more...] about Partner Spotlight: Just One Africa

Board of Directors Spotlight: Chris Burch

Chris Burch has been involved with Third Lens Ministries from nearly the beginning of the organization. College friends with Third Lens’ founder, Lee Carol, Burch jumped on board with the new organization relatively quickly.  “Lee founded Third Lens in 2009, and then he told me what he was doing,” Burch said.  “When I heard about it, I told him I wanted to be involved. He knew that I was in construction, and he knew that I had also had a passion for serving the Lord however I could with my time and expertise.” The first trip Burch took with Third Lens was to Honduras in October of 2010. The project was to help Predisan Health Ministries build a clinic in the community of Wasparani, located in an isolated mountain region. “We came in and told them that we were there to help him,” Burch said. “That we were going to be coming back in a few months, and we were going to start construction on this building for them to build a medical clinic. So we called a meeting with … [Read more...] about Board of Directors Spotlight: Chris Burch