Recent Postings from Kaimosi

News from the Nugent Rehard family
FUM Field Staff in East Africa
Based at Friends Theological College in Kaimosi, Kenya

Patrick Nugent is the Principal of Friends Theological College, training East Africans for pastoral ministry and leadership. For news about Friends Theological College, the Nugent Rehard family, and life in Kaimosi, visit:
www.kaimosicnxn.blogspot.com

Recent postings include:

• Kaimosi Connections, the email newsletter about FTC.
• Christmas and New Year's greetings from the Nugent Rehards, and vignettes about the children's boarding school experience at St. Andrew's School Turi near Nakuru, Kenya.
• Updates on developments at the college, including student progress, building projects, and challenges facing the efforts toward agricultural income-generation at FTC.
• Founding of ANGAZA, the new Friends Theological College Alumni and Friends Association.
• Steps toward creating a complete FTC website in the near future.
• Updates on the Kenyan constitutional referendum.
• Reflections on ecological pressure on the Kaimosi forest, on the recent Tiriki circumcision rites, and on water shortages during the dry season in East Africa.
• Recipe for Kaimosi Mueslix (breakfast cereal you can make)
  

Mary Kay Rehard, Patrick's spouse, is preparing for health ministry, by studying to become a physician at Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret. For news and updates about Mary Kay's studies, visit:
www.marykayrehard.blogspot.com

Recent postings include:

• Mary Kay's calling to serve in health ministry in East Africa and discernment leading her to prepare and train in Kenya, the context where she hopes to serve.
• Eldoret Express journal entries on Mary Kay's first weeks in medical school in Kenya.
• Information about Indiana University's presence at Moi University School of Medicine.
• Outline of the philosophy and design of the M.B.Ch.B. degree (bachelor's of medicine and surgery) at Moi University. Includes description of Problem-Based Learning, the instructional approach used in the School of Medicine. Also details COBES, Community Based Education and Service, the program where Moi U med students engage in field work in rural health training centres throughout western Kenya.
• Curriculum outline for Moi University School of Medicine.
• Housing for Mary Kay in Eldoret.
• Media coverage of the "brain drain" of African health professionals, choosing to relocate to Europe and America for higher-paying employment. Impact on staffing the rural and remote dispensaries and hospitals operated by Friends United Meeting in Kenya (in Turkana, Samburu, Lugulu and Kaimosi).

Both blogs contain current prayer needs, as well as praise notes of thanksgiving for needs that have been met. We encourage you to visit these blogs for up-to-date information from Kaimosi and Eldoret, and we ask you to support Patrick and Mary Kay's ministry through FUM's Global Ministries.

Publications from Kaimosi Friends Press are available through the Quaker Hill Bookstore, including the Hill of Vision Pamphlet Series.

Patrick Nugent is currently planning deputation travel to the United States in April and May 2006. Conatact Terri Johns at Friends United Meeting to arrange for him to visit your Friends meeting. He would enjoy the opportunity to share with you about Friends Theological College and the development of pastoral ministry in Kenya, East Africa!