Opportunities to share Christ and make disciples among the Maasai happen because of the health strategies your generosity supports. Water projects, medical camps, and women’s health training build relationships with the community and enable us to engage people like Sadera. Thank you for joining us in this valuable gospel work.
Recently, our team partnered with Send Relief and a national church to complete a water project in Tanzania with Sadera’s Maasai community. Three rainless years were followed by three months of severe flooding. While the rains have stopped, the land has already returned to dust three months later.
Because of your generosity, we installed an extra 30,000 liters of water storage tanks and rain catchment systems on school roofs and teachers’ housing. This doubled their current capacity for harvesting and storing rain. The additional storage is essential in this very arid bush environment. Because of your gifts, their physical and spiritual lives have improved.
Please join us in prayer:
Pray for Sadera and other teachers as they work with Maasai students and build relationships that lead to gospel conversations.
The East Africa Healthcare Strategies team recently took a team of doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, and their families into northern Tanzania to conduct a medical camp with the Maasai people in a remote village. This village is an area with little access to quality healthcare.
Patients walked miles to get to the camp from every direction. Over three days, the team treated almost seven hundred patients for various medical conditions.
At night, those at the camp viewed the Jesus film in Ki Maa, the language of the Maasai. Evangelism teams shared the gospel during the medical camp, and the Holy Spirit moved powerfully. Over three hundred Maasai people prayed to accept Jesus as their Savior!
This camp is one of a series of health interventions our team is partnering on with Send Relief, including women’s health, healthy pregnancies, and water projects.
We praise God for what He has done and ask for prayers as we use healthcare strategies to share the love of Jesus and improve the lives of the people of East Africa.
Thank you for your generous gifts to East Africa Healthcare Strategies, which make camps like this possible. 
Health training deepens relationships. In August 2023, thanks to your generosity, our team took 10 people, including national pastors, a women’s health trainer, and perinatal nurses, to conduct a women’s health training for a group of Maasai women in a remote bush village. Thirty-four women attended the events, with four committing to be trainers and to take the knowledge gained to their peers in the surrounding villages. God used this training to teach both the Maasai and our team many things. We learned more about Maasai culture and their environment and how these impact the health of their people.
The men on the team met with nine Maasai pastors from other villages to connect our urban pastors with their rural counterparts. Everyone involved learned a great deal, and we are already planning another trip to reach other villages. This trip will include walking alongside the four new trainers as they teach women from nine churches while the men do healthy church and pastoral training for the pastors. This is the power of community health evangelism reproducibility.
Water filters improve quality of life. We also followed up on our water project from earlier this year. Praise God! The impact was immediate and powerful. Since the people began using the water filters we brought in, no one with filters has gotten sick from drinking the water. Children are not missing school, and there have been no deaths from water-borne illnesses in this community since they began using the filters. This fall, we plan another trip to take additional water filters to other areas to impact their communities similarly. These healthcare strategies allow us to form deep relationships within the Maasai people group, facilitating the sharing of the gospel and equipping and empowering Maasai pastors and churches to send out their own missionaries.
We are so thankful for you, our partners, who make this project possible. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness. 
From the jagged Atlas Mountains to the vast Sahara Desert and the wildlife of the Serengeti, Africa is unrivaled for natural beauty and the hospitality of her people. Most Sub-Saharan Africans live hand-to-mouth, surviving on what they can harvest and herd, but regardless of status or wealth, most Africans share a common bond in community, family, and tribe.
Home to 2,500 ethnic groups, the region once characterized by sweeping poverty is redefining itself with bustling economies and technological enterprise. Eleven of the twenty-five fastest-growing global cities are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether urban-or-village dwellers, though, many Africans still try to manipulate spiritual powers through charms, sacrifices, and divination. The hope of the gospel is desperately needed.
African believers are catching a vision for sharing their faith. Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to become a tremendous missionary-sending force. Ask God to fan the flames of evangelism and cover Africa with his glory.