Meet Amos: A nurse in the nomadic village of Alale

“The Word of God is to be preached to these people; teachings of love: ‘love your enemy as yourself.’ The Church can also promote schooling for children. Those who are learned—any child who has reached even the 8th grade—none of them will return to warrior lifestyle because they are now enlightened. Schooling will do away with ignorance.

“Ignorance kills people because the rain washes [human] waste to the river and then they drink water from the river and get worms, eggs, bacteria, typhoid, and dysentery.

“This is the cost of ignorance.” —Nurse Amos
Excerpted interview from Director of Operations Rachel Finsaas’ master’s thesis

On the recent trip to Alale Faith and David met with Amos. They talked to the group about making sure all children were vaccinated, especially from polio. Amos motioned to his slightly crippled legs and told them that was from polio as a child. He encouraged the group to always bring sick people to him as soon as they became ill, especially children.

Have you visited the Daylight website lately? Have you noticed anything different? We hope so!

We are excited to announce the launch of Daylight Center and School’s new website. The new website features a reorganized user-friendly menu, as well as images and video that will be updated regularly with the latest happenings at Daylight.

Be sure to check our Events page this fall to attend Daylight events in your area, or take the initiative and contact us to host an event!

The “share” buttons on the bottom of each page make it easy to share Daylight with your friends and family. Share our “Get Connected” or “About Us” page with your friends today. And while you are there, watch the video of Director Michael Kimpur telling his personal story, “From Herds Boy to School Boy.”

Special thanks to Daylight partner, Luke Finsaas, for the time and work he donated to give us this beautiful new website!

Rachel Finsaas
Director of Operations

Faith and David Kroeker Maus are Daylight Board Members currently living in Uganda working with an Aid Organization. They visited Daylight mid July.

After meeting the teachers and touring the school grounds, I led a session on malaria prevention for the children. Then David led a short social studies session where we discussed the symbolism in the American and Kenyan flags, and the children sang the Kenyan national anthem for us. When we opened it up for questions from the group, of course the children asked us to sing our anthem.

And so, in what was probably one of the most ridiculous and hilarious exploits of the Kroeker Maus duo thus far, we robustly sang the Star Spangled Banner (try translating that title in Swahili!) for not one, but two groups, totally around 200+ students and teachers. The pinnacle of the day was planting some trees around Daylight. The teachers marked off the acre (70 paces) that we helped purchase, and then the kids lined up along the edges of it and shouted thanks.

Faith and David Kroeker Maus

Faith and David Kroeker Maus are Daylight Board Members currently living in Uganda working with an Aid Organization. They visited Daylight last week.

On our way to the nomads we came upon a group of people surrounding a woman sitting on the ground holding a very sick child. Although he was breathing and sometimes coughing feebly, his eyes had rolled back in his head, and he was mostly unconscious.

This child was clearly going to die if he did not receive medical attention soon. So, we loaded the boy, his father, mother, and grandmother into the vehicle and sped off back the way we had come.

As we pulled away the women in the group screamed prayers to Yesu (Jesus) and lifted their hands in thanks to us. Finally we reached the hospital. The doctors told us that the boy had arrived in time and would survive.

The boy’s parents and grandmother were the only barefoot adults in thehospital and were clearly overwhelmed by everything around them. Paved roads, large buildings, and indoor plumbing were just not part of their worlds.

We stayed with them until everything was settled and gave them some money for all of the hospital bills before setting off on our journey a second time.

Faith and David Kroeker Maus

Greetings from Daylight. We all send greetings. The dormitory construction project is underway. Take a look at some photos and and the video showing the ongoing construction activities.

Thank you very much for the efforts you are making to get this happening.

Grace and Peace,
Michael Kimpur