First Love for Africa

Our First Blog!

Under the auspices of First Love International Ministries, I, together with Promise Mchenga, my dear friend and "African son", are establishing medical ministries in Malawi's Likoma Isalnd, Lira, Uganda, and the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya. We are working to organize medical teams who will travel in a short-term capacity to provide medical and surgical care, and emotional trauma therapy to the poor and destitute in these countries. We hope to combine medical care with sharing the good news of true and lasting hope found in our Lord Jesus Christ; hope not only for eternal life, but in the discovery of the purpose God designed for each of our lives here on earth. To learn more about this ministry, or how you can be involved, please contact Nancy Kilpatrick, R.N., B.S.N., B.A., at: nnckilpatrick@gmail.com, or Promise Mchenga, at: promisemchenga@yahoo.com - or just add your comments to this blog! Zikomo kwambiri! Mulungu akudalitseni! (Thank you very much! God bless you!)

How You Can Help!

1. Donate to our Feeding Programs in Kibera and Mitumba slums. 2. Donate to the Women's Center in Kibera which helps impoverished women learn a trade and make a living to support themselves and their children. 3. Sponsor a child rescued from the slums. $30.00, $60.00, or $120.00 a month sponsorships are available. 4. Commit to financial and prayer support of long-term or short-term missionaries and teams traveling to Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda. 5. Join a short-term team traveling to Africa to see for yourself the difference your financial and prayer support makes! 6. Organize fundraisers in your community - church, school, or civic group - to help raise funds needed for medical supplies and equipment in hospitals in Malawi and Uganda. 7. Pray for the African and American First Love staff and ministries.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Nancy Kilpatrick April 15, 2011 at 4:56 PM
Please contact Nancy Kilpatrick if you would like to donate baked goods, or pre-order some goodies!
Home phone - 207-351-3066
e-mail: nancykilpatrick@msn.com
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Nancy Kilpatrick April 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM
Fundraiser Concert Update!
When: June 12th 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. - doors open at 6:30
Where: Kaleo Coffee House - 85 Main Street, Dover, NH - in the Janeto's Plaza
Musician: Kathleen Fowle - Contemporary Christian Artist
Price: $15.00 per person in advance, $20.00 at the door.
All proceeds will benefit medical missions team outreach in Likoma Island, Malawi this July.
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Nancy Kilpatrick May 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM
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Did You Know?

Researchers estimate that 5,000 people die each day in Africa due to the AIDS pandemic. As a result, there are 41 million orphans in Africa. Nairobi's Kibera slum has a population of 1 million people in an area of one square mile. The United Nations estimates that 50,000 orphans roam the streets of Kibera - streets that are littered with debris, garbage, and where small streams of rain water mixed with raw sewage flow freely. Hundreds of people in Kibera die every day from violence, hunger, and diseases such as AIDS, TB, malaria, and pneumonia. Malawi is a country the size of Pennsylvania, with a population of 15 million - and 1.5 million orphans, due to AIDS and hunger. As recently as 2004, hundreds of innocent Ugandans were massacred by the Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northern Uganda, and 100,000 people have been displaced by the violence there. The LRA has moved out of Uganda, and is now active in the DR Congo, murdering adults, and abducting children and using them as child soldiers and sex slaves. Isaiah 58: 6-12 says:

“Is not this the kind of fasting^R)"> I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice^S)">
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed^T)"> free
and break every yoke?^U)">
⁷Is it not to share your food with the hungry^V)">
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter^W)">—
when you see the naked, to clothe^X)"> them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?^Y)">
⁸Then your light will break forth like the dawn,^Z)">
and your healing^AA)"> will quickly appear;
then your righteousness^a]">[a]^AB)"> will go before you,
and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.^AC)">
⁹Then you will call,^AD)"> and the Lord will answer;^AE)">
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger^AF)"> and malicious talk,^AG)">
¹⁰and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,^AH)">
then your light^AI)"> will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.^AJ)">
¹¹The Lord will guide^AK)"> you always;
he will satisfy your needs^AL)"> in a sun-scorched land^AM)">
and will strengthen^AN)"> your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,^AO)">
like a spring^AP)"> whose waters never fail.
¹²Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins^AQ)">
and will raise up the age-old foundations;^AR)">
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,^AS)">
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

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