Kenyan Academy Seeks £150,000 for Additonal Buildings

NAIROBI-- BCFC Christian Academy, a parochial school in Kapenguria, Kenya, East Africa, a rural district about 200 miles north west of Nairobi, is expanding its campus, hoping to build a student library, science lab, and final dormitory for secondary age school children.

The three facilities mark the fifth stage of a multi-phase building project to provide a boarding school for national Kenyan children, says George McConnell, chairman of the Free Presbyterian Church Missionary Council, Northern Ireland. The academy needs £150,000 more to complete the project, and hopes to raise those funds through gifts from the Free Presbyterian Church, says McConnell.

For years national believers and Free Presbyterian missionaries were concerned because their church children were required to attend state boarding schools sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church. The children were required to attend these schools because they lacked a facility of their own. 

So in 1993, according to McConnell, phase one of a building project was launched to erect a primary school, in hopes of giving their children a protestant gospel influence mixed with a Kenyan education.

The elementary phase advanced rapidly with the generous support of Free Presbyterian Churches, but monies were lacking to proceed with a secondary school (high school).  Missionaries began to see the evidence of what they feared, "Those trained in their elementary years were losing their faith later on," McConnell said.

After much prayer and further support from Free Presbyterian Churches, BCFC finally proposed a secondary school, and opened with 81 students in January of 2007.

This brought the total enrollment to 531, requiring a fifth stage of three additional buildings, particularly a boys dormitory.

The Free Presbyterian Missionary Council released a new brochure this month to show people how they can financially support this effort.

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