NAIROBI, Kenya (ABP) — In spite of a wave of violence that has swept through Kenya over the last few weeks, Baptist groups are proceeding cautiously as they go back to work in the chaotic nation.
Classes began as scheduled Jan. 14 at the Kenya campus of Wayland Baptist University, a Texas-based Baptist school.
Staff of the Baptist charity group Buckner International, meanwhile, have confirmed the safety of children housed at Nairobi's Baptist Children's Center and in foster homes.
Other Baptist groups are working to help victims of the violence. Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, sent $10,000 to the All Africa Baptist Fellowship for relief work in Kenya. The group sent another $5,000 to Uganda to provide for Kenyan refugees who have fled to that nation.
Baptist Global Response — a Southern Baptist international relief and development organization — provided $25,000 to relief in Kenya from the Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund. The Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board coordinated efforts to help distribute food to 2,500 Kenyan families in seven cities.