History of IcFEM...
IcFEM Mission (Interchristian Fellowships’ Evangelical Mission) is a Kenyan founded indigenous Interchristian organisation which is aiming at accelerating community transformation by smoothly integrating Evangelism with Community Development and Relief and Welfare activities. Initially IcFEM was a vision of one or two people, having been started as Rural Evangelistic Ministries (REM) founded by Solomon and Ruth Nabie and a few other members...
Location...
The Republic of Kenya is an East African Country and covers an area of 582,650 sq km which is relatively the same size as France or Texas. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the North, Somalia to the East, Tanzania to the South, Uganda to the West, and Sudan to the North-West, with the Indian Ocean running down the South-East Border. From the coast on the Indian Ocean the low plains rise to central highlands. The highlands are bisected by the Great Rift Valley and the fertile plateau in the west...
Line Ministries...
Presently, some 475 Village Fellowships have been formed; and these are being trained and equipped, for their own development and further outreach, by the
The Line Ministries are:
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Evangelism
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Relief and Welfare
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Education, Skills Development and Functional Literacy
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Health
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Elderly people
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Families
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Youth
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Bethesda Pool programme (ministry to disabled people)
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Agriculture and the Environment
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FeSaCS (Fellowship Savings and Credit Scheme, for small enterprise development)
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Recreation and Sports
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Kingdom Singers
Mission Projects...
AIDS is killing so many Kenyan adults in the 20-45 age group that the extended family structure, so basic to African culture, is breaking down. Once, old people were secure in the knowledge that they would end their days peacefully in the supportive family community. Now, they find themselves totally overwhelmed as they care for sick and dying children, and for orphaned grandchildren. Following the death of many younger family members, many old people feel completely isolated, and end their days alone in wretched poverty...
