Irvin & Ruth Schwandt

Irvin and Ruth Schwandt have ministered in Kenya under Elim Fellowship since 1976. In 1997 they were requested by the national church group they serve there (Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa — PEFA) to open an orphanage, which is now Rehema (Swahili for “Compassion”) Home. In mid-2011 there were 58 children in the home between the ages of 9 months and 15 years old, about half of whom were HIV positive. Through the grace of God, the Schwandts, with the other workers at the home, have been able to rescue children who were abandoned and orphaned. Some of these children had been tortured by their parents or xrelatives; some thrown in rubbish heaps or public toilets; some abandoned in hospitals or on the side of the road. Through the love and care the children receive, they have found healing to their emotions, spirits and bodies, knowing that they are accepted, valued, loved and encouraged as members of the Rehema family.

Irvin and Ruth also have a missionary project you can support. If you would like to give to the "Schwandt - Rehema Home Grant"; click Here.