An overview of the ministries and priorities of Samburu Friends Mission, an FUM project partner in Kenya.

1. Samburu
Friends
Mission
founded in 1995 by
Isaiah Bikokwa, a
Friends missionary to
the Turkana people

2. Isaiah Bikokwa retired in July 2013

3. Sammy Letoole,
the first Samburu
Friend trained at
Friends Theological
College, is now
serving as the
Mission Director.
God is doing
exciting things in
Samburu!

4. Samburu Friends
Mission is now a
fully
“indigenous”
church, a
mission of the
Samburu
people, for their
community

5. The new leaders opened a local bank
account, and are fully responsible for
managing the mission’s money

6. The mission treasurer and the monthly
meeting treasurer are so proud to have
made the first bank deposits of their lives

7. The staff of the mission are nearly all
Samburu Friends

8. Samburu Mission has two full meetings
and two new church plants. This is Lorian
Friends Church.

9. This is Malalwa Friends Church and
nursery school, the newest church plant

10. Here are the youth members of
Loltulelei Friends Church

11. The leaders of Loltulelei Friends
Church inside the new meetinghouse

12. The new Loltulelei church after
plastering the walls

13. Worship is at the center of all the
Samburu Mission activities

14. One Sunday each month, the young
adults lead the worship

15. Samburu Friends praise God through
their indigenous culture

16. The men’s choir at Lorian Friends

17. One of the women’s choirs at Loltulelei, at
the dedication of the new classrooms

18. One of the USFW choirs at Lorian

19. One of the USFW choirs at Loltulelei

20. The children’s choir at Loltulelei

21. Some of the members at Lorian

22. God is raising up dynamic young
leadership among Samburu Friends

23. Rosinah
Lepariyo, the
first Samburu
Quaker
woman to be
trained as a
pastor

24. Christopher
Leaduma,
the
evangelist at
Lorian

25. Christopher
Leaduma
and his son
with Eden
Grace,
FUM’s new
Global
Ministries
Director

27. Lorian Friends Church

28. Lorian Friends just built this new Sunday
School and nursery school building

29. New borehole at Lorian

30. Loltulelei Friends Dispensary building
– in dire need of new construction!

31. Simon and Peter, the clinical staff of the
Dispensary

32. The biosand water
filter project was
recently introduced
at Loltulelei

33. Wherever Friends are, there are
Friends Schools

34. Loltulelei Friends School is a community-based
primary school. This is the school board.

35. FUM’s Summer
Mission Project in
2012 resulted in
two new and two
renovated
classrooms at
Loltulelei.

36. The new
classrooms
replaced
rooms that
looked like
this.

37. Loltulelei Friends School students love
their school – and they are the top
performing school in the District

38. Loltulelei Friends School has won national
competitions with its traditional Samburu
songs and dances

39. Rehearsing for the upcoming
competition in Nairobi

40. Loltulelei Friends Nursery School
meets in the new meetinghouse

41. Most adult Samburu women are illiterate.
Samburu Mission runs an adult literacy
program to teach these women

42. Children who
work full-time
tending the
family’s animals
come to a special
night school
called “Shepherd
School”. This is
the only program
of its type in
Samburu.

43. It is very difficult for a family to pay
for secondary school, and girls are
often left behind. Samburu Mission
sponsors 10 girls in secondary school.

44. The 2014
Summer
Mission Project
raised over
$20,000 to
support girl-
child education
in Turkana and
Samburu

45. Upper Hill (Loosuk) Dispensary as it
appeared in February 2007

46. The same building 12 months later

47. The Upper Hill compound was destroyed
during the post-election violence of 2008

48. The windows, doors, furniture, supplies,
equipment and roofing were all stolen.

49. This is what remains of the pastors house

50. This was the church and nursery
school building

51. We can’t
rebuild at
Upper Hill.
But God has
not allowed
us to be
discouraged.

52. Friends have been given this land in
Loosuk Market, a growing and
populous area, in order to develop a
new ministry to the community.

53. Samburu Friends have a vision of an
Empowerment Center on this land

54. An Empowerment Center will offer
much-needed goods and services to
the community while also serving as a
vocational training center and
providing
an income
stream for
the mission.

55. Lorian Church
members are doing
the planning of this
project. They started
out by identifying
goods and services that are needed by the
community and that have a strong chance
of being profitable. Currently, people
travel to Maralal for these services, about
an hour by motorcycle, at a cost of $10
round trip.

56. Motorcycles are the most common form
of public transportation. They are in
constant need of repair

57. Business services like photocopying,
typing and email are in very high demand,
and computer classes are greatly needed

58. School supplies and text books can’t be
bought in Loosuk, yet every child is
required to have them.

59. Sewing of school uniforms
and dresses is a profitable
business and a desirable
vocational skill

60. A guest house with meeting rooms, like
this one in Maralal, would allow many
different groups to hold community
mobilization events in Loosuk.

61. Friends are called to impact their
community as well as generate income to
sustain the mission work.

62. The gospel of Jesus Christ is changing
lives in Samburu

63. The gospel is truly good news to the
Samburu people

64. Thank you for partnering in what God is doing
in Samburu through Friends United Meeting