Living Room Ministries International
I am moved by the reality that, in God’s Kingdom, outcasts find acceptance and a home; the last become first; and the poor’s value is not attributed to their possessions. This week, a team of Kenyans and Americans have joined efforts to give our finest to those who, at best, usually receive leftovers. We [...]
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Please consider standing with Living Room once more in these finals days of 2010. If you have already sent a year-end gift, thank you so much! If not, your gift will help to furnish Living Room’s newly constructed 26 bed hospice. It’s quick, easy and secure to give online. Just click on the DONATE button [...]
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It is hard to believe that one year ago Living Room was but an inspired dream. Thanks to many prayers and your incredible generosity, it has become a refuge in Western Kenya for the sick and dying, the lost and forgotten. In the midst of brokenness, our guests have been welcomed and received as children [...]
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In a nearby town, there is a crippled man who can be found everyday on the side of the road. With a few coins scattered around him, he yells in hope and need of more. Or maybe his cry is a desire for his voice simply to be heard. He sits with a sign that [...]
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There are many images that fill my mind from this day, but there is one that I will not soon forget. I was visiting a patient, who is currently admitted to a local hospital, in hopes that she will soon be discharged to Living Room. As I stood at the bedside of this young, dying [...]
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The day I met Selina, she was stooped on the veranda of the HIV clinic. Her sunken eyes and wasted frame told much of her story. She was sick and alone. When I reached out my hand to touch her shoulder, she looked me in the eyes. I noticed [...]
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There is not much I can tell you about the man I met on Friday. I do not know his credentials, possessions or political views. On the day we met, none of those things mattered. He was terribly sick, in need of a home, and had unexpectedly found his way into our Living Room.
As I [...]
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*Actually written by Allison Tarus, Program Development Coordinator
“Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:18
As I recently joined the Living Room (LR) team to offer Christ’s love to the sick, in deed and in truth, I did not expect that my family would be among the [...]
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I spent the morning with a young patient who, for lack of a better description, is trapped inside of her suffering. Disease has stolen too much—her youth, her family, her dreams. She is unable to verbalize her pain and fears, her disappointment; but on certain days, for hours at a time, she screams and wails. [...]
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When it rains in Kipkaren, which right now is everyday, it pours. Living in a rural environment, rain is never considered an inconvenience. It is seen as a source of blessing that nourishes our food supply. Our roads, on the other hand, become a slippery, muddy mess; and all forms of travel [...]
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