‘Healing Streams’ is a ministry wing of ‘Glory Tribe’ (UK charity reg 1098030). Healing Streams seeks to bring wholeness to people’s lives through the Good News of Jesus Christ and promote healing in spirit, soul, and body.
Apart from the UK, Healing Streams mainly works in Kenya and is based in the lakeside city of Kisumu.
Our desire is to empower, train and equip as many people as possible regardless of their income or circumstance.
Below are some of the people and projects that we support:
Peace Home
This children’s home is based in Otonglo village, about five miles west of Kisumu Airport, on the road to Uganda. The home is owned and managed by Pastor Zaccheus Otieno and his wife Agnes on about one acre of their ancestral land. They have three children of their own and twenty-three orphaned children. Healing Streams: -
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Bought them a cow for milking.
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Paid for the digging of an 80ft well.
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Helped set up a small chicken farm.
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Paid for the brick rebuilding of dormitories that were previously made from mud and sticks and continuously damaged by the weather.
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Pay the monthly salary of a maid who helps take care of the children’s needs.
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Help to pay school fees for the children .
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Bought a tuktuk which they use as a taxi to help provide income for the needs of the home.
Widows
In the rural around Peace Home, we support a group of 37 widows of varying ages. Many of them are still young with children or grandmothers who are raising grandchildren who have lost their parents. We bought chickens to help their farming cooperative begin a business and seeds and vegetable plants. They meet regularly at Peace Home with Pastor Zaccheus, to support and encourage each other. We have visited them a number of times and their individual stories remind us just how tough life can be for those in developing nations.
Mercury Children’s Nursery
Every month Healing Streams supports this nursery, which is in the heart of the Nyalenda slums and has fifty attending preschool children. The school is run by Sarah, a widow with three of her own children whose schooling we support. Many of the children arrive without having eaten and on arrival they receive breakfast and then eat lunch before going home in the afternoon, which is all supplied by generous monthly giving of our sponsors. We have replaced the worn metal sheets of walls and roof and bought new furniture for the classroom. We have also supplied textbooks and other learning materials.
Children’s Hospital
Healing Streams works at the Children’s Ward (Ward 5) at the Nyanza Provincial Hospital, Kisumu. When visiting we are always welcome to play and pray with the children. A section of this ward is for children with Burkitt’s Lymphoma, a type of cancer. We send monthly monies for eggs, milk and fruit to supplement the rice and beans they receive daily. We also provide each child with their own toilet roll, small jar of Vaseline to moisturise their skin and a bar of soap for washing themselves and their clothes.
Children’s Education
Healing Streams regularly makes several grants to pay children’s school fees. Primary education is free in Kenya, but many schools will only admit pupils who are able to pay for a uniform and can provide their own books and stationary items, which if the children arrive without, they are sent home! Secondary education is not free so we pay for several children who would otherwise not be able to go to school. Where appropriate for special reasons we pay for a small number to go to boarding school. Currently we have three who are attending these.
NB education is so important in providing for their future and their families. Unemployment amongst the poor is as high as 80%. Without a high school education, you cannot get a job even stacking shelves in a supermarket. Many who only attend primary school, or who never went to school at all, struggle to survive at all.
We also help some students to go to university and medical schools, which not only empowers the individual but helps to provide for their wider families.
(to go with photo of little boy with truck) He offered us his little truck to play with. If you would like to offer children like him a chanced to have an education and escape poverty, please consider supporting our work by making a donation.
Healing Streams also helps to support street children, community development, training in organic farming, outreach events and training and equipping for pastors and leaders.
Rod and Michelle Smith visit Kisumu as often as possible. We are also in regular contact with those we support in Kenya. Our contacts, relationships made and requests for help are ever growing. We have taken teams of up to twelve volunteers, many of whom have said that their visits were ‘life-changing’. During visits we host conferences for church leaders in and around Kisumu. A common topic for discussion is inner healing and forgiveness.
Healing Streams seeks to bring wholeness to people’s lives in body, soul, and spirit. As well as providing for physical needs, we share the Good News of Jesus Christ and seek to promote healing.
Our ethos is “Helping people to help themselves and then help others”.
If you are interested to learn more about this ministry, and how you may be able to support us please send an email to the address on our homepage.