Asali House

Y'all. The guest house is (nearly) finished!!!! And, it has a name. The Kijabe house our family currently lives in was named "Bee Eater" many years ago after a type of bird commonly found here (all the houses owned by the hospital are named after birds). So, we wanted our Guest House to be separate …

Smile!

by Matt I had the opportunity to travel to South Sudan in April (thankfully not the country where intense fighting is going on) as part of a Samaritan's Purse "Smile" team. We were able to operate on 84 children! In Sudanese culture, many children are given names at birth that signify either the time of …

Ol Pejeta

If you don't like looking at pictures of cool animals, this post will not interest you. If you do, well, pull up a chair... Ol Pejeta is a private conservancy nestled into the foothills of Mt. Kenya in Nanyuki, about a 4-5 hour drive from Kijabe. We've been hearing about it for a while, and …

Hosanna!

I've had a few folks tell me we don't post enough about wee Cecily, so I thought we'd remedy that. I'm writing this Cecily Appreciation Post today for two additional reasons: 1. Her middle name is "Hosanna" and today is Easter Sunday so it seems fitting, and 2. Today is also her 2nd birthday! This …

Snooze News: 7th Edition

By Matt I was able to travel to Garissa earlier this month along with two other doctors from Kijabe. Garissa is in northeastern Kenya, about a 7 hour drive from Kijabe. If you ask most people about the area they will tell you: 1) it's hot (mostly a dry desert area with temperatures in the …

Pushing Back the Darkness

"We need someone who knows how to swim and emergency services at the sanitation dam."Our Kijabe community text group received this message at 12:50 pm. I read the text message to Matt, and within minutes, he was on his mountain bike racing down to the sewage pond located just minutes below our home.While the circumstances …

New Leadership!

Kijabe Hospital has had an interim Executive Director for the last 12 months (after what was supposed to be a 6 week stint for the interim director when the previous ED stepped down). This morning's chapel service brought great news- that a new Executive Director has been selected, and will start assuming his duties immediately! …

AFK Camp 2022

We were able to help host a football (soccer) camp last weekend here in Kijabe with Ambassadors Football Kenya. If you're not familiar with their organization, click on the link there. Aside from a few after-school sports, there really aren't any opportunities like this for children in Kijabe. It was SO fun to see all …

Mount Kenya

I'm not really sure what to call our Mt. Kenya experience from 3 weeks ago- was it a Hike? A Trek? An Intense Form of Physical Punishment to My Calves/Knees/Quads? After seeing a friend's photos from the same trip earlier this year, it put a bug in my ear to think about trying it for …

Was God an Anesthetist?

Sunday, October 16 was World Anesthesia Day. The Kijabe Hospital anesthesia department hosted the hospital's weekly chapel service to commemorate, and Matt preached a sermon that somehow tied anesthesiology to the gospel. I've posted his talk below if you'd enjoy reading it! Matt Kynes "Ephesians 2:4-9 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the …