Jimmy and Chase Miller- Serving Kenya since 2011

“Dear Friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”   1 John 4:11-12 This passage is preceded by the ultimate act of love by our Father in heaven—the act of sending His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins, His love evident in human form through the Son. He poured out this same love onto us to be manifested through us to all mankind—irrespective of race or person, but because God loved us first. This manifestation of His love is completed in us. The details and preparations to move to a different continent are meaningless in comparison to what He is asking us to do. We are to keep our eyes on Him, the obedience He calls us too, realizing that the little details don’t really matter. He has made a way for us financially through all of you, and for this, we are eternally grateful. Thank you for joining Him in this cause to love and serve His Kenyan peopl...

  Our time left in the states is flying at warp speed.  We will be leaving October 17th for Nairobi.  The stay in Nairobi will be for several days to collect supplies and then head to Tenwek.  We still have not heard where we will be living but we trust God in the process to bring us to a comfortable place we can call home. Our fund raising has gone well.  We are funded for WGM living expenses for a year.  Our first term will be 18 months and we trust the rest will come.  We are still actively fund raising for our ministries including water filters, patient compassion fund, medical equipment, and Kitoben orphanage. We have several presentations to give before we leave and are hoping this will ignite some hearts to give. We anticipate the massive culture change about to occur.  We don't know how to prepare except cast ourselves in Jesus' arms and allow Him to carry us through.  We have 3 months of language and culture training which will help ...

 My third week at Tenwek was another busy time.  My clinic time was minimal on Monday and Wednesday.  I made time to fit about 10 hearing aids to those in need.  These are always a blessing.  Many of the patients have never seen or heard of a hearing aid.  They are amazed at the improved hearing.  These aids were obtained from Resound and are top of the line programmable hearing aids. The patients treasure the aids and proudly wear them after being fit.   I treated a 15 year old boy this week for nose bleeds.  He was seen last week in Casualty for signficant blood loss related to a right sided nose bleed.  The emergency room placed a pack and by the time I saw him there was no further bleed. he was discharged and to return to clinic for removal of the pack 3 days later.  He showed up early again to the Casualty area with recurrent bleeding.  He was really traumatized by the experience.  I worked with him to control bl...

The main focus of this trip was to return to the Maasai village with 200 Sawyer Water Filters.  Back in October of 2024, I delivered and set-up about 380 water filters for their village, schools, & churches.  They have struggled with unsafe drinking water from the Mara River for years with many of their children getting sick from bacteria infested water.  When I returned this past week, they did inform me that no one had fallen ill from the water since the water filter delivery and set-up in October of 2024!  The Children have been healthy and actually drinking more water which is such a blessing.   It's always an adventure going into the Maasai Mara with all of the Safari wildlife, cows, goats, sheep crossing the roads, and I use the word 'roads' loosely.  I also had a run in with a Brown Recluse Spider from visiting their local latrine.  I came out and felt something on the back of my bald head and tried brushing it away.  I thought I g...

 My second week has continued to be busy.  But the theme of the trip is "His kingdom is expanding".  With every patient encounter I ask patients if I can pray with them.  We have had many patients that have been in desperate health situations that do not know Him.  The seeds have been planted through years of suffering and the harvest is ripe.   This 13 year old boy has a rapidly growing cystic mass of his jaw.  The family has been taking him to traditional healers where they have been placing hot ashes on the growth with no response.  CT scan reveals that the mass completely encompases his lower jaw with loss of his ear canal and temporomandibular joint. We will need to biopsy this to determine if it is malignant.  This is a hopeless situation for this poor family. He had never heard of Jesus or the hope that Christ can bring him.  His father also had very little knowledge.  We shared the love of Christ and the Gospel.  T...

 We arrived safely Sunday night 3/16 after our long journey from Rochester to Bomet, Kenya.  God's grace has been so evident this trip so far.   1. On our flight we had an empty seat between us! This never happens on Kenya Airways so we declared it a miracle.   2. All four of our suitcases made it through xray with no dreaded "X's" marking them to be searched.  We breezed through customs in 5 minutes!   3. My first week of patients were hand chosen for me.  I saw familiar issues and was able to triage to surgery or medical management fairly easily. 4. We had two patient's give their lives to the Lord- His kingdom is expanding! We connected them to the chaplain who met with them and will follow up with them.  What a joy! 5. Although my sleep has been poor I have felt fine with plenty of energy for the long days. Truly the Grace of God 6. My first several days I did not have a general surgery resident working with me but a medical off...