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Partnering in Education and Aid for Kenya
(PEAK) 2009

How PEAK began:
In the summer of 2008, Aspen Community Church made a commitment to mission and service work in the country of Kenya. Two ACC members, Charlie Horn and Debbie Welden, traveled to Meru, Kenya with a team from the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church.
While in Meru, the team coordinated with local Methodist church leaders to complete several projects at the Kithoca Primary School. Working with local parent volunteers, headmaster Nathan Ngiti, and locally hired laborers, a lot was accomplished in two short weeks:

• Conversion of a rustic classroom into a library and media center
• Helping the Kithoka School with other necessary maintenance, including reconstruction of the 4-strand barbed wire fence around the school compound, and repairing and re-hanging the entrance gate
• Provided a reconstructed cooking stove for the school cook and installed a ventilation chimney
• Presented a lesson on environmental stewardship to the 7th and 8th students and conducted a school grounds clean-up.
• Contributed school supplies and clothing to the Kithoka School
• Contributed medical supplies to local primary care providers and held a one-day medical clinic for the surrounding area

The team also had the opportunity to tour the a number of other Methodist-run facilities in the region, including the Methodist Children's Home, the Methodist Polytechnic School, Kenya Methodist University, and the Methodist Bio-Intensive Agricultural Training Center. A highlight was a Sunday service where they were honored guests with Bishop William Muriuki at the Chugu Methodist Church in Meru.

Aspen Community Church has now established an ongoing mission fund (PEAK), through which we are sponsoring a young girl at the Methodist Children's Home in Meru, and we also donated to and participated in a joint effort between the Methodist Church and the Arvada Rotary Club, through which 60,000 books were shipped to Kenya, to begin establishing libraries in rural schools in Kenya and Uganda over a three-year period.

Donations to the PEAK fund will help us to continue with these projects and support for the people of Meru. Please consider helping with this effort. Your gift today will make a substantial difference in their lives.