Each year, an estimated 200 million calls are made to various 911 centers across the United States, covering 99% of the nation’s population and saving an untold number of lives. But what if you lived in an area that didn’t have access to 911? What if you lived in an area that didn’t even have a single hospital? For multitudes of Kenyans, that is exactly the case.

Although the countryside of Kenya is beautiful and known as the “jewel of East Africa,” diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS run rampant among those living in poverty. Due to significant shortage of health personnel and institutions, people in the rural areas, especially in the Nyanza and Western Provinces suffer from the lack of availability of doctors and medical workers as well as the overall lack of proper healthcare. Only 6% of the population receives any healthcare in the Nyanza Province and 28.4% in the Western Province.

Healthcare institutions in urban centers are also affected by the scarcity of medical supplies. Curable diseases result in untimely death due to the unavailability of medications. In other parts of the country, villages are affected because health institutions are located far away from the towns.

What can be done? Already Global Aid Network, in partnership with other like-minded ministries has shipped in multiple containers of humanitarian aid, medical supplies, clothing, and shoes, which have been distributed to thousands of people in need. Yet, what about those who have no access to medical care? If we can’t bring them to a hospital, we can bring the “hospital” to them.

In conjunction with other ministry partners, Global Aid Network is assembling a mobile medical clinic to meet the needs of thousands of Kenyans too remote to access the country’s already few hospitals. A 24-foot, self-contained clinic will be equipped with lab equipment, potable water, a gas generator, and most importantly two healthcare providers travelling to various rural communities and slums throughout Kenya. Along with the clinic, this project will provide medical supplies and aid valued at almost one million dollars. In addition, in every location where this clinic will be stationed to care for the health of Kenyan people, a JESUS film team will conduct evangelistic showings of the message of the Good News of Christ that comes straight out of the Gospel of Luke. Your participation in this and other Global Aid Network medical outreach projects can play a significant role toward bringing together multiple evangelism partners and compassionate resources to help bring vital, whole-person, community ministry to desperately needy people.

Will you help? Partial funding for the project in Kenya has been provided. Currently, for the project in Kenya and other medical outreach projects around the world, we need $240,000. Medical clinics and outreaches are an essential part of compassionately sharing the gospel of Christ. This is wonderfully illustrated in Mark chapter 2, where we read a story of a paralytic who had no access to Jesus because of the crowds around Him. Yet the paralytic’s friends did not give up. We read in verses 4-5, “And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. And when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you.''” When we help people receive medical care in the name of Christ, they not only have access to healthcare, but to the gospel as they see the love of our Savior in action.

Will you help “open the roof” to someone in need? Please prayerfully consider how you can help provide for medical clinics and outreaches in Kenya and in other countries around the world: