|
Stephan Shelburne Stephan came to Mbale in August 2004. He taught at the mission school for one school year and then stayed in Mbale to help begin and coordinate the AIDS Orphans Program. Stephan has completed a small amount of college work and served for a few summers as a counselor at a Christian leadership training camp for youth. Contact Stephan at stepshelb@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Heidi Davidson Heidi Davison arrived in Uganda in January 2006. She works with Stephan Shelburne in the AIDS Orphans Program and with the Women’s ministry teaching in the villages and editing lessons that have been written. She graduated from Ozark Christian College in December 2005 with a Double Major Bachelor of Biblical Literature and Missions. Her previous experience includes internships in China, Mbale, Uganda, Tyro Christian Church Children’s Ministry Tyro, KS and several mission trips to Africa, Europe and Mexico. She has worked with kids in many capacities: as an after school counselor at the YMCA, babysitting, children’s ministry internships, kid’s dramas and VBS. Her hobbies include: reading, singing, learning different languages, and making videos on the computer. |
|
Jennifer Allen Jennifer joined the team in August of 2006. She graduated in December 2005 from Harding University with a degree in Public Relations and was accepted into the Masters of Science in Counseling program the next semester. She finished two semesters before moving to Mbale for a year. Jennifer works with a group of 22 high school students who were abducted and forced into combat by the rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army. The students she works with are orphans who attend an American-sponsored school in Soroti, a town an hour north of Mbale. Jennifer is also the interim administrator for the Kenya Church of Christ Children’s Home in Kitale, Kenya. She travels the three hours into Kenya once a month to oversee finances and make sure everything is running smoothly at the home. In her spare time, Jennifer works in the library at MTI, entering new books into the system and shelving books that have been processed. Jennifer spent the first ten years of her life on the mission field in Eldoret, Kenya. In 2005 she participated in the internship with the Mbale team, and decided she wanted to come back to East Africa to work. She enjoys reading, cooking, walking on the beach, candle-lit restaurants, good conversations, and making plans with her friends to save the world. |
|
|
|
|
|
Shawn Tyler Family Ian Shelburne Family Phillip Shero Family |
|
_small.gif)