Joy in Africa

Joy Phillips is a native of New Jersey. She was born and raised as a United Methodist "preachers kid."

She accepted the Lord as her savior at Malaga camp at an early age and while attending Asbury College in Kentucky she felt the call to missions.
After getting her nursing degree at Indiana Wesleyan University she went to Kenya with World Gospel Mission.
In 1990 she received a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
From 1985 through 2006, she worked in Kenya at Tenwek Hospital in different capacities: ward nurse, Acting Executive Officer and Director of Tenwek Community Health & Development. The mission of TCH&D is to facilitate change in Christ's name through Primary Health Care and appropriate development in needy communities.
In 2006 Joy served as Program Manager for Lui Hospital, a ministry of Samaritan's Purse in South Sudan.
Currently she is involved in coordinating a Bible Distribution Project in South Sudan. 250,000 Bibles in 6 languages will be distributed along with training for church leaders in the first half of 2008.
Along with that she is helping coordinate relief efforts for World Gospel Mission in Kenya after the violence that erupted after the elections on December 27th.

We are encouraged by the progress made this week in efforts to restore a stable government and peace here in Kenya. Please pray as Kenya continues recovering from the traumatic beginnings of this new year. People were heard saying Happy New Year today. There is hope.

I was recently in Sudan and the attached Monthly Memo gives more details about what is going on in the Bible Distribution Project. Today I picked up some reports that were sent out of Sudan this week. This is from Joseah Sang - one of our newest staff who I worked with for many years at Tenwek Community Health & Development.

He says: "It was during the first time we were unloading the Bibles at Akot. God spoke to me that He is able to do His work at anytime. A good number of armed soldiers came to help unload the Bibles. When the work was done one came and asked me how to receive Christ. I took time with him explaining to him about the love of God. At last we ended with a word of prayer. I have a plan to meet him again."

Beginning in December 2007, Joy is publishing her monthly news memo in Adobe Acrobat PDF format so that all can see her news, exactly the way she wants it published. The document will appear the same on all computers without regard to operating system. In order to view and print her newsletter, you will need to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer -- if you do not already have it installed.

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Joy Phillips is serving in East Africa
with World Gospel Mission and Samaritan’s Purse
Joy Phillips, P.O. Box 76143, 00508 Yaya Towers, Nairobi, Kenya