Kitchel speaks on CMA at Kiwanis
At the Kiwanis meeting, Ken Urdahl introduced Debra Kitchel, who spoke on Christian Mission Aid that she and her husband started 14 years ago. Her husband died in the past year. There are a few churches in the community that support her mission. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church sends beads for the women to use to make jewelry and sell, Ken and Ruth Zimney have donated Bibles and Temple Baptist Church members went over to Uganda and worked.
At the Kiwanis meeting, Ken Urdahl introduced Debra Kitchel, who spoke on Christian Mission Aid that she and her husband started 14 years ago. Her husband died in the past year. There are a few churches in the community that support her mission. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church sends beads for the women to use to make jewelry and sell, Ken and Ruth Zimney have donated Bibles and Temple Baptist Church members went over to Uganda and worked.
They started CMA with just her and her husband and now they have 200 employees. Their outreach helps some of the most vulnerable countries, Kitchel said. Many of them have a high mortality rate of children under age 5. They work in areas that have no roads or running water, no buildings and they have to build the buildings for their clinics, staff and own accommodations. Many are made out of mud.
In Kenya they now have 25 doctors and nurses. It is the only health care for four different locations, Kitchel said. They work with about 1,500 patients a month in each location. They have trained two Sudanese people to be eye doctors. They do about 2,000 cataract surgeries a year. Kitchel said the illiteracy rate is around 75 percent and up to 90 percent. Their most recent venture is to work with a leprosy colony. There are 200 isolated and forgotten people. They have trained thousands of pastors and started many children’s ministries, she said.
Sandy Franke led the meeting with 22 members attending. Don and Sharon Caine led the group singing and Wes Hart collected Happy Dollars for “fill the bus.” Guests were Ruth Urdahl and Ward and Mary Lou Wilkins, Sharon Caine’s sister and brother-in-law from Anoka, Minn. An auction for the club’s Elimination Project is at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at Camp Rokiwan. Members are encouraged to bring friends and family to the event.
Clarence Mittleider will introduce the Wild West Players from the Frontier Village at the Sept. 10 noon luncheon meeting at the Lantern Room. Visitors are welcome.
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