Celebrating 10 Years

of Ministry in
East Africa
2010 Annual Campaign
Dear Friends,
I am ecstatic about the opportunity to share this piece with you, largely because never in my
wildest dreams did I imagine that I would get to be a part of celebrating this major ministry milestone.
In 2000, when WinShape Wilderness approached
me about moving to Kenya for a year to help start As the year 2010 is drawing to a close, Bracken-
a ropes course program, I didn’t think for a second hurst Ministries currently has a deficit in its yearly
that I would still be living here and serving as the operating budget. Would you consider making a
director of Brackenhurst Ministries 10 years later. I year-end donation to help us finish out 2010 on
never would have imagined that the Lord would a positive financial note? We are truly excited
continue to open the door to ministry opportuni- about all of the work that the Lord has allowed
ties in the ways that He has. us to be a part of here in Kenya, but we desper-
When I reflect back on 2010 specifically, I ately need your help in continuing this work! As
see the Lord’s provision through a series of difficult we evaluate the possible reasons for our financial
circumstances. I was talking with a friend earlier shortfall this year, we recognize that we have en-
this week, and I commented that this year did not countered a variety of unexpected events. A few of
play out as I was anticipating at the beginning of our full-time team-members were not able to meet
2010. We experienced a lot of transition on our their annual giving goals, and we had to move
full-time team, and we ended up moving houses houses, which resulted in additional unexpected
because of 2 different somewhat traumatic break- expenses. Additionally, we had to purchase a few
in experiences at our previous house. Yet, despite multi-year supplies for our camp program this year,
the ‘harder’ events in our lives, we were able to which led to higher expenses for camp this year.
experience the Lord’s faithfulness as He carried our Lastly, we are about $30,000 lower in our general
team through these times. And, we saw Him not giving this year compared to previous years, add-
only carry us, but also enable and equip our team ing to our current deficit.
to continue to pour into the lives of the people
around us here in Kenya.
Looking forward to 2011, we are already excited to see that the
Lord is putting a team in place that will allow us to grow our impact in
East Africa. We have already filled 8 new positions for the first half of
2011; we are so excited about the ways in which these new individuals
will be able to extend the reach of this ministry. The Lord is so faithful to
provide us with the right people at the right time. As I look forward to
their arrival, I am also aware that we need to increase our general giving
to cover ministry provided expenses. I confidently believe that the Lord will provide these needs be-
cause He has paved the way for these new individuals to join our team.
Thank you so much for any financial support that you are able to give towards our 2010 shortfall!
We truly appreciate your commitment to Brackenhurst Ministries and to impacting these lives here in
East Africa!
Blessings,

Executive Director
 In 10 Years of Camp BlueSky, over 3,800 kids from at
least 36 nationalities have been exposed to the Gospel of
Jesus Christ!
When we look back on the past 10 years of camp, nothing excites us more than real-
izing how many kids have gotten to hear the Gospel. When camp began in 2001, we
had a total of 110 campers, primarily from Christian missionary backgrounds. How-
ever, there were about 5 kids who came from a diplomat background that first year,
foreshadowing the direction in which the Lord was going to take camp in the future.
For the past 4 years, we have averaged 500 kids each summer, about three-quarters
of those kids are from non-Christian backgrounds. It is common for counselors to
have a camper from each of these faiths in the same cabin: Christian, Muslim, Hindu,
Buddhist, Jewish, and Athiest. They literally have the opportunity to share Christ
with kids representing all of the major world religions at the same time. How often
does that happen in the world? God has been so faithful to Camp BlueSky to give us
the opportunity to proclaim Christ among the nations. We have had the privilage of seeing kids from all
walks of life put their faith in Christ. We are so thankful that this is the work that the Lord has allowed us
to be a part of for the past 10 years, and we pray that He would continue to give us the opportunity to
reach this diverse and spiritually dry community with the transforming power of His Gospel.

The kids that come to camp are literally the

“I am a humanitarian.
My Mum is Muslim &
my Dad is a Hindu but
I don’t follow any of
these religions”
- 10 year old girl
We have been given the privilege
and responsibility of sharing the
Gospel with kids with stories like
this one.
next generation of world leaders. Their
parents are political, business, and
humanitarian leaders worldwide. Imagine
how different our world could look if this
generation comes to Christ, then takes the
Gospel back to their 36 nations, and then
emerges as leaders of their respective
countries, many of which represent nations in
the 10-40 window.

Celebrating the Lord's Faithfulness in Student Ministry

Looking back, we are also so thankful that the Lord has allowed the
Brackenhurst Ministries student ministry program to grow so that we
are able to be involved in the lives of many of these kids year round.
One week of camp definitely changes kids’ lives, but we know the
potential for impact is so much greater than that when faithful student
ministry workers are able to walk with them throughout the year.
Since the student ministry program was officially started in 2004, we
have had the amazing privilege of being involved in the lives of hun-
dreds of students. Whether it is through youth group, early morning
Student Ministry enables our
breakfasts, sporting events, or weekend events, our team is honored to
team to share Christ with
have been a part of these amazing kids lives.
students throughout the year!
At this point, we are primarily working in 2 schools, but as we see our
team growing, we are already beginning to pray about which school the Lord would have us add next.
We have kids coming to camp from at least 15 different schools in the Nairobi area, which means our
student ministry program has lots of opportunity for growth before we are engaging all of the camp kids
year round!
 Joelle's Story of Growth Through Camp
and Student Ministry
was serving in the role of a men-
tor, she was just happy to have
her as a friend. Joelle says she
had lots of people who served in
the role of mentor in a more of-
ficial sense, but having someone
who just wanted to be her friend
made the biggest difference in
Campers are not the only ones her life. That’s why it was much
who have their lives changed later that she realized that Kim
through being a part of the camp was very intentional in her life,
program. In the past 10 years, that she was always asking her
almost 300 staff have grown in challenging questions and will-
their walk with the Lord through ing to give advice when asked.
their experience at camp. Joelle Joelle really felt like Kim helped
Mumley is one of these individu- her prepare for the huge chal-
als. Not only was she a part of lenge of returning to the States
our summer staff, she was also a for college.
camper and was poured into by Kim’s investment in Joelle, com-
our staff in the early days of the bined with her experience as a
student ministry program. Joelle camper and love for Kenya were
grew up in Kenya as a mission- major contributors in Joelle’s
ary kid and returned to Kenya decision to return to Kenya as
for two summers during college part of our summer team. When
to be a part of our camp team. asked in what way serving as a
When she was in high school, part of camp staff affected her
Joelle didn’t realize that Kim Pace the most, she said, “Camp pro-
vided the unique opportunity
to openly and blatantly share
the Gospel. Because camp is so
fun for their kids, non-Christian
parents either supported or
tolerated it, regardless of their
personal beliefs. The parents
know they are signing their kids
up for a Christian camp. As staff,
we were encouraged and ex-
pected to share the Gospel with
kids that were intentionally kept
away from the truth of the Gos-
pel in every other aspect of their
lives. Many kids had never heard
that Jesus is God and we had the
opportunity to share openly with
them all week long. I grew in my
own faith as I learned to boldly
share the Gospel with campers.”

BlueSky Adventures Celebrates 10 Years of Training Leaders

and Building Stronger Teams
When our teambuilding and leadership development prorgram began in 2001, we were one of the first
to offer this type of training experientially in Kenya. Today, we remain a leader in this growing field as we
pour into the lives of current and next generation local and worldwide leaders. Over the past 10 years,
the Lord has given us the opportunity to work with approximately 600 corporations, schools, community
organizations and churches on our challenge course.
BlueSky Adventures focuses on equipping participants with vital skills such as leadership, communica-
tion, trust, and teamwork, just to name a few. Our staff often has the opportunity to share why these
principles are important from a Biblical perspective. Simply by being in business, we believe that the
Lord opens a lot of doors to people not accessible to more traditional missionaries.
Additionally we have had the opportunity to invest in our Kenyan staff and develop their leadership po-
tential. As we focus on giving them increased leadership and train-
ing opportunities, we see that they become better equipped to help
their country grow and develop. We have had the blessing of seeing
two of our former team members move on to leadership positions
with an organization that enables Kenyan churches to care for those
suffering from HIV/AIDS in their communities. They often talk about
how their experience as facilitators with BlueSky Adventures helped
to equip them for the ministry the Lord has called them to today.
 Planning Ahead for the 10 Year Mark in Western Kenya
In addition to sharing God’s love, we have also have the privilege of showing God’s love as we pour into
a variety of peoples’ lives, and as we helped to provide access to basic needs at our project in Western
Kenya. By God’s grace and with your help, in 2010, we were able to drill another deep-water well, which
provided access to clean drinking water for a whole community. And, we provided much needed food,
shoes, basic necessities, and access to education to 200+ orphaned children. Also, we provided 40 more
milking cows to needy families.
With only 3 years left before we reach the 10 year mark of our involvement in the Western Project, we are
focusing on helping Mission Link Ministries move towards a higher level of sustainability. We have put in
place several goals that we believe will decrease dependency and increase sustainability.
Goal 1: Provide Rehema Children’s Home and Academy with a sus-
tainable food source. Each year we are spending about $36,000 just
to feed the children at Rehema, we would love to see them in a posi-
tion where they are not requiring outside funding to feed the kids.
We are currently researching a land project that would allow Mis-
sion Link to grow enough food to feed all of the children at Rehema.
The project will require that we purchase land, drill a borehole, and
put an irrigation system in place. We are aiming to simultaneously
Food is Rehema’s greatest
research land management and raise funds in early 2011 so that we
monthly expense and they are
can purchase land and begin management training in late 2011. We
relying entirely on outside aid.
anticipate that we will need to raise at least $40,000 to complete this
We want to provide them a
project and believe it will be a long range investment towards sus-
sustainable food source.
tainability at Rehema.

Goal 2: Have a sponsor in place for all of the 200+ children at

Rehema by the end of 2013. Once the land project is completed,
there should be no need to spend sponsorship money on food. This
means that all of the sponsorship funds will be able to be used to im-
prove the quality of education and life at Rehema. Currently we have
sponsors for 41 children; to accomplish this goal, we will need spon- You can make a difference
sors for at least 170 more children. by sponsoring a child for $40
each month.
Goal 3: Ensure that there is a well at all 7 of the Mission Link Assemblies.
To date, wells have been drilled at 4 of the 7 “Assemblies” in the Mission Link
church planting network. The 37 churches are broken up into 7 Assemblies
that are created based on their proximity to one another.
We currently have the funding in place to drill our 5th well in early 2011. We
are planning to focus our efforts on raising money for the land project in
2011 and plan to begin raising fund for wells for the 2 remaining assemblies
in early 2012.

Goal 4: Provide cows for all of the Mission Link Ministries staff
(pastors, teachers, and ECD teachers)until the program is able to
provide cows from within. We currently have sufficient funds to
purchase cows for the remaining staff and several needy members
of the community in early 2011. At the end of next year, we plan
to evaluate if we need to raise money for more cows in 2012. The The first round of second gen-
program was designed so that the first calf born to a cow is put back eration cows will be producing
in the program. The first of the calves will be mature enough to give milk in 2013, which will move
birth and become milk cows in 2013, meaning the project will reach the Cows for Christ program
a point where it is able to sustain itself in 3 years. towards sustainability.
 Looking Forward to a Growing Team in 2011
More staff on the ground means more lives can be impacted, so we are
excited to have 8 new people that are planning to join our team next
year. It has been amazing to see the Lord’s provision of the right people
at the right time. David Preston will be joining our team in May as the
director of operations in Kenya. He will be helping to implement our
strategic plan and overseeing staff development. David and his wife
Tammy both have years of experience at WinShape at Berry College.
Their kids Wesley and Hannah are tons of fun and will make a great ad-
dition to the team as well.
We are also excited that the Lord continues to provide staff to lead
BlueSky Adventures. Greg Hatcher will be joining our team in May to
The Preston Family, (from left)
run the day to day operations of this business. Emily Baird will be
Tammy, Wesley, Hannah and Da-
with us beginning in January for a 6 month programming internship.
vid, is planning to join our team
BlueSky Adventures is more than a teambuilding company; it provides
in May 2011.
us with a valuable tool to access the lives of both the international
and business communities of Nairobi. Not only will Greg and Emily have the opportunity to help grow
and develop the business, they will also have the opportunity to build relationships that will lead to op-
portunities to share Christ with the individuals they come into contact with.

Plans for a New Climbing Andrew, Jason, and Stephen

Gym in 2011
When we moved our programs
to Lukenya Getaway 2 years ago,
the one aspect of our program
that we weren’t able to take with
us was our rock climbing gym.
We’ve always wanted to open up
a gym in Nairobi. A rock climb-
ing gym would provide a base
for us and provide a great way to
engage the international com-
munity.
Andrew Conway, Jason Boone
and Stephen Powell are planning
to join our team in January to get
this project started. They have a
huge task ahead of them, start-
ing with finding the right loca-
tion for the gym.
All three of them have experi-
ence with Young Life, and they
are planning to work alongside
our student ministry team as well
as serve at Camp BlueSky. They
will also continue to work on
developing our Adventure Trips
program, particularly training the
Kenyan staff to run these pro-
grams well.
will be starting the climbing
gym and working with stu-
dents. Emily will be working
with challenge course
programming.
Exciting Growth for the Student Ministry Team
Lexi Wayman and Michelle Peteet will be joining our student ministry
team in February. Both ladies have experience working with students
in the States. Lexi has been an administrator for a tutoring company
in Los Angeles, and Michelle has been the assistant youth pastor at a
church in Rome, GA. When they are not busy with students, they will
be serving Camp BlueSky. Lexi will be the camp administrator, and
Michelle will be the head counselor
at camp this summer.
Lexi and Michelle will be working
to expand our work in both Ross-
lyn Academy and the International
School of Kenya (ISK). Earlier this
year an administrator at ISK asked if
we would be willing to run a Young
Life style program for his students.
Up until this point, we have not had enough staff to pursue this, but
with our new staff this is definitely something we intend to pursue.
With a growing student ministry team, we are able to begin to seri-
ously considering adding another school as part of our student min-
istry program. Please join us in praying about where the next move
should be. We’ve got a couple of schools in mind, and we have great
relationships with some of the senior staff at those schools. It’s just a
matter of waiting on the Lord’s timing before we can get going.
 Brackenhurst Ministries Needs YOUR Help!
We hope that you will prayerfully consider participating in this year’s Annual Campaign. As we look back
and celebrate the past ten years, we are also aware of our current urgent need for funding to help cover
the $50, 000 budget shortfall we are experiencing this year. We are so excited about the opportunity
for growth that our team will experience in 2011. With your contributions to the annual campaign, the
ground work will be laid for the following things to happen in 2011:
• Campers, who represent the next generation of world
leaders, will be exposed to the life-transforming power
of the Gospel at camp this summer.
• More students will be involved in Gospel sharing pro-
gramming and intentional relationships with our grow-
ing student ministry team.
• A new climbing gym will become a hub in the interna-
tional community in Nairobi, creating more opportuni-
ties for intentional relationship.
• The Adventure program will continue to develop a
growing number of current and next generation leaders
in Kenya.
• The lives of the children at Rehema Childrens Home and
Academy will be transformed through the provision of a
sustainable food source and additional sponsors.
To participate in this year’s annual campaign, please fill out the included card and send it with your check
in the envelope inserted in the middle of this mailout. If you would prefer to donate online, please visit
our website, www.brackenhurstministries.org, where you can donate via Paypal. Please designate your
gift as “Annual Campaign” in the memo portion of the online form. Thank you in advance for your partici-
pation in this year’s Annual Campaign. Your support is such a vital part of this ministry.

You Can Help Brackenhurst Ministries as You Shop This

Christmas Season!
For those of you who are planning to do all or some of your Christmas
shopping online, there are a couple of easy ways for you to help Bracken-
hurst Ministries as you shop.  Amazon gives the largest donation and it’s
the easiest to use, not to mention you can buy pretty much everything
on Amazon.  Before going to Amazon, just come to the Brackenhurst
Ministries blog (www.brackenhurstministries.blogspot.com) and click on
the Amazon link on the sidebar.  Just click at the bottom where it says
amazon.com, that will take you to Amazon and you just shop like nor-
mal.  They give between 3-15% of your purchase back, depending on the
item.
If you can’t find what you need at Amazon, try www.goodshop.com.  You
will need to select Brackenhurst Ministries as your charity.  Then you just
search for the store you need, click on the link to it, and then shop at
your store like normal.  I have yet to find a store that I wanted to buy from
that wasn’t on Goodshop.  They usually give back between 2-5% of your
purchase price.  These are 2 easy ways to help give back to Brackenhurst
Ministries at no cost to yourself.