One of the purposes of Breakthrough Partners is to assist national church-based groups like the organization ICAN, InterChurch AIDS Network. The group of Kenyan churches in Nairobi who sponsor ICAN are partnering together to make a difference in the slum communities of their city. Breakthrough Partners has agreed to come alongside them to empower them in ways that will expand and multiply their work. Our intention is for transformation of individual lives and of communities through the power of Christ's truth and love.

God places His people in the ash heaps of the world to be His agents of reconciliation, compassion and practical care. He brings His truth and love to those who are suffering. He offers them hope, hope that can be found in no other place than in His promises. And He uses ordinary men and women to reach out with the beauty of His grace to a world filled with desolation and despair. God is doing such a work in the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya. READ THE REPORT from a recent Kibera mission trip.

Jane and Sally, ICAN Volunteers
A group of churches in Nairobi, Kenya are partnering together to minister in the large slums of their city. One of their ministries is ICANÑInterChurch AIDS Network. Jane and Sally, two volunteers for ICAN, carry the beauty of God's love and truth into Kibera on a weekly basis. They work with groups within the slum that minister to HIV/AIDS victims, to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), and support Pastors and their Slum Churches. Each time Jane and Sally visit the groups, they provide them with much-needed food items, materials, training, and moral support. Adding resources to their work would enable them to expand and multiply their initiatives.

Silanga HIV Positive Group / AIDS Support Network
Meeting in Kibera are a group of 32 Christians, all HIV positive, who have formed a network to support and serve one another as well as other HIV infected people in their part of the slum. With Jane and Sally's help, they provide home-based care and distribute HIV/AIDS materials and information. Their soft-spoken words speak powerfully of their trust in Jesus in the midst of intense suffering. They live daily in the reality of their hardships, yet their faith is in the promise of heaven and they have found purpose in sharing their faith and practical help with others. Their desire is for more training and help to become self-supporting.

Orphans and Vulnerable Children / Pastoral Support
Robert and his wife Mary have obediently followed God into Kibera to live and work as pastors of a small slum church and to oversee its daycare/feeding program to young orphans. Each day about 50 orphans come to receive a few hours of classroom instruction and what is probably their only meal of the day, a lunch of beans and cornmeal mush. By serving "the least of these," this newly married couple is bringing the beauty of Christ's love into little children's lives. Their only wish is that they could do more to reach out to the hundreds of other Kibera orphans that are in need.

As well, Robert and Mary faithfully shepherd their small but growing church. Since they first came to the church 6 months ago, it has grown from 40 members to 60. That little church is a beacon of hope in a community of darkness. Pastoral training and supplemental monthly support would increase their effectiveness and expand their ministry.

Our organization partners with national church-based groups such as ICAN that are working in wholistic ministries and operating in true faith and with integrity. We come alongside them to multiply their work by adding empowering resources and support. Our purpose is to bring transformation to communities.

A gift to Breakthrough Partners Kibera Initiative will expand and multiply projects such as the HIV/AIDS Support Network and the Orphans' Daycare/Feeding Program.

If you would like to donate to the work in Kibera, write “Kibera” in the “Payment for” box in our GIVING FORM. Thank you.