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About Us
Both Janet and I aspired to become missionaries in Africa at a very young age with the encouragement of our parents who themselves had aspired to be missionaries in Africa. Having been on the mission field after a year, I began to doubt my abilities and questioned why I was there. After all, I didn’t know the language, I didn’t understand their culture and most of all, I didn’t know anything about how to start churches. Janet encouraged me and said God will bless us and supply for all our needs. Our missionary work in Africa began in July 1972 when we moved to Uganda. Africa at that time was under the leadership of Idi Amin. We were forced out of Uganda after having been denied work permits and permits to stay there. We moved to Kenya to work with the Kipsigis people, learning Kiswahili where we remained 17 years, from 1973 to 1990. The lord blessed that work. 120 churches started there. Since that time churches continue to mature, even without missionary presence. At present, the number of churches has increased to 250 and growing, many of which have elders and evangelists. We go back and visit several times a year. In 1990 we decided to move from the kipsigis to the Saboat people of Mt. Elgon, Kenya. The Sabaot people are a distant relative of the kipsigis, with a similar, but quite different language. We had to learn a new language. In the 14 years we’ve been with the saboat people, we have helped start 18 churches of which 3 have chosen Elders. These churches also have many evangelists and in the last year they started 3 congregations. As many of you may know from our newsletters, not only have we done church work amongst the Sabaot, but helped them do other projects. When we first moved there we realized there was no medical care. Janet opened a clinic for basic primary care. There was also a need for cattle treatment. Many saw me treating our own cattle and asked if I would treat theirs. Livestock is very important to the mainly agricultural society. So I began caring for livestock and it has continued for many years. I don’t know how many patients I’ve lost but I’ve saved a few. We also have done a water project. A donor from the United States helped in funding a water project that would constantly supply water to the schools we started. This expanded to a hospital, other villages and homes of families. One of our biggest work we have done is starting a primary school. We never had an intention but God provided the way. It was started as primarily a Kindergarten school to help children have a good foundation for learning. The school has been in operation for about 12 years now and the student body is around 800. The school has expanded to the 8th grade. Many of the teachers as well as the head of the school are Christians. As their children graduated, parents began pleading with us to help start s a high school. They said “Our kids are having to walk so far to school, off the mountain, please help us start something locally”. Kapkirwok High school is now in it’s 4th year. We’ve had many problems due the government wanting to take control and making it a public school. - Fielden and Janet Allison See Future Plans
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