By Jennifer Harris
Word&Way News Writer

“Our trip to Kenya was a call from the wild,” Tom Shoe­mak­er, member of Cornerstone Baptist Church, Lee’s Summit, said. “And I answered it.”

 

Shoemaker joined with 11 others from five churches across the state to participate in the second of three trips the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Missouri has planned to Kenya, Africa.

CBF of Missouri is working with CBF field personnel Sam and Melody Harrell to help meet the needs of AIDS orphans and other at-risk children in Kenya by partnering with the Ngerenya community to build and staff an Integrated Child Development Center.

The Development Center has now been built and is school to over 80 children between the ages of three and five, according to information Rand Swanigan, member of First Baptist Church, Jeffer­son City, posted on the church’s missions blog.

“The community has ownership,” he wrote. “They see the success, and they have a vision.”