ABWE is excited to begin building the Wendell Kempton Medical and Ministry Center, in Togo, West Africa. Currently $4.8 million has been raised (or committed) to the $5.5 million project. We invite you to become a part of this exciting effort to bring the gospel and compassionate medical care to a needy people.
It’s common knowledge that Africa is a troubled continent with unbounded poverty, disease, oppression and corruption. What is not so commonly known is the way God has made these needs a launching pad for the gospel as His church has responded to them in the spirit of Christ. ABWE missionaries have been in the forefront of those efforts, working with AIDS victims and their families, orphans, victims of abuse, and those with inadequate healthcare or unsafe health practices. All of these ministries have resulted in spiritual healing and church growth, to God’s glory.
Nowhere has this been more evident that in Togo, West Africa. Beginning with a school for the blind nearly 40 years ago, ABWE missionaries have responded with compassion and reaped a wonderful harvest. One of the most fruitful ministries has been the Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital in Tsiko. Many of the approximately 2,400 who come to follow Jesus while being treated at the hospital each year, return to their unreached villages. Soon they return to request a Bible teacher to help share the gospel with neighbors, relatives and friends. Forty churches in the region testify to the effectiveness of this methodology.
A few years ago, political leaders from the Muslim majority northern part of the country came to our missionary doctors with an unprecedented invitation to establish another hospital in the city of Mango. The resulting vision encompasses so much more, including an outpatient clinic, MK school, missionary and volunteer medical worker housing, a chapel and ministry buildings for radio outreach, creation evangelism, economic development and center for village-based heath care. In memory of Karolyn Kempton’s husband, who served as ABWE’s President for 30 years and was promoted to Glory shortly before he was to begin raising funds for the project, ABWE has named the complex the Wendell W. Kempton Medical and Ministry Center (WKMMC).
We launched a three-year campaign for money to buy property, build buildings and fund start-up operations for the WWKMMC in December, 2008. To date, friends of Dr. Kempton, missionary supporters and others interested in making a difference for Christ in Togo have given or promised $4.8 million toward the $5.5 million goal! We would like to invite you to participate with us in this great endeavor. One of the generous donors made his commitment as a matching gift, so your gifts are vital to us receiving all the promised funds. He has agreed to match each gift during the public phase of our campaign before December 31, 2010, up to $500,000. Our remaining need for this phase is $700,000, so you will want to be one of the first to give to be sure your gift is doubled. Please pray about joining this effort with your special gift today. You may contribute online or send your gift marked “WWKMMC” to ABWE Donor Services, PO Box 8585, Harrisburg, PA 17105.
More information is available on this special section of our website. You can view our brochure about the project, read updates sent to donors over the past 18 months, view photo albums of building progress, read about the groundbreaking, and keep up with progress right here.
We encourage you to discuss with your pastor or missions committee about your church being involved. Special information packets are available for interested churches. We also need volunteer construction teams, and still need missionary doctors and other medical workers. Learn about the project, share it with friends, family and fellow church members, and become personally involved with a gift or as a volunteer. Most of all, PRAY! God is doing a great thing, and you can partner with Him.
If you love to pray and God burdens you for this project, join our special prayer team. We need 100 prayer warriors who will ask God to bless this effort for funding, and the future ministry of the WKMMC during the next 12 months of this campaign. Find out more here.
Donald F Davis, Esq.
Corporate Counsel, Secretary
ABWE Ministries, Inc.
(717)774-7000 General
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