Bukoyani

Helen Murphy with Revd Peter Asava and members of the Holy Spirit Church in Bukoyani.

We have close links with an indigenous African church ‘The Holy Spirit Church (HSC) of East Africa’. In 2007 we are celebrating 25 years of friendship. Over the years, 40 of our members have visited and stayed in the village of Bukoyani in rural North West Kenya, where the headquarters of the HSC is located, whilst over the same period 18 Kenyans have visited us.

We have supported a number of community projects in Bukoyani. The one that has gone on for most of the 25 years of our friendship has been an education sponsorship scheme. This enables approximately 17 young people, in any one year, to benefit from secondary education.

One or more people from our fellowship have visited Bukoyani each year for more than 20 years. During that time we have also conducted two youth exchanges with the village and in the last three years one of our members, Helen Murphy, has spent approximately three months a year in the village in six week blocks.