Africa – The displaced people in the refugee camps, August 9, 2025

    This is a testimony from our co-laborer and coordinator for the ministry in north Kenya and south Ethiopia who works with these displaced people in Laikipa and other displaced people groups in refugee camps similar to this scattered throughout the continent of Africa and other places.

    It is hard to imagine for most of humanity ever being in a situation that in order to save yourself and your family, you must leave your possessions, home, community and many times your home country to survive. Fortunately, for them, many times other individuals and organizations will intercede and they will be provided with a place of refuge. Many times the majority of those living in the refugee camp are not really welcomed by that community even though the organizations make every opportunity to minimize any negative impact to the community by providing food, shelter, basic needs, including health, sanitary and medical need. But unless the circumstances are mitigated that required them to move and they are able to return to their homes and communities, eventually the organizations for many reasons must move to the next location, leaving them without having been accepted into their new home, community or nation.

   We are praying for divine guidance and discernment for Christian believers that the Lord has been called to help from inside the people groups, those living in the surrounding communities and those that He will call from other places to intercede and be the hands and feet of Jesus guided by the Father’s heart and empowered with the wisdom, love and strength of the Holy Spirit. The only hope that the Christian believer can give their fellow refugee, even if there is only one in these groups that many times number in the thousands, is found in a personal relationship with our Father through faith in Jesus Christ. The few believers that have been called to serve as shepherds within these groups need our prayers and support.

   “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard-pressed on every side but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted but not abandoned; struck down but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that His life may be revealed in our mortal body.” (2 Corinthians 4:7-11)