Missions

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Our Heart

Kibera New Life Church (KNLC), established 2015, is an evangelical Christian church serving Kibera and surrounding areas, wherever there are unreached peoples. Our passion is to see Christ-centered lives, established and thriving among all of Africa's peoples.

We Are a Missions Oriented Church 

KNLC is a nondenominational church that supports independent ministries based in areas and regions of great poverty. KNLC hold worship services on Sunday and during the week there are Bible studies and hut-to-hut evangelism one day each week. The church has baptized many into the family of God. In the past KNLC sponsored four missionary college students. Three of the four students successfully completed the courses and received diplomas. They are all involved in reaching the unreached and making disciples of Christ Jesus. 

Background and Vision

The informal settlement of Kibera is not only the largest slum in Nairobi, it is said to be the largest slum in Africa. With a population estimates run anywhere from 230,000 to 1.5 million. One might assume that Kibera’s privations would be a top priority for the Kenyan governmen, with the great numbers of people and the even greater needs. Kiberans, who have an average life expectancy of just 30 years, suffer from a severe lack of clean, running water and toilets; hunger is so rampant that a high percentage of girls in the slum routinely trade sex for food by the age of 16. However, Kibera has been largely ignored by those outside its vicinity. In fact, until recent years, Kibera was very literally invisible, appearing only as a large blank space or an uninhabited forest on virtually all maps.

Paradoxically, while remaining invisible on maps, Kibera was saturated with well-meaning NGOs, faith-based groups, and foreign researchers. Although these international groups generated a large body of knowledge on Kibera, their information has failed to create any meaningful change. There was a vast disconnect preventing any dialogue between the residents who understood Kibera’s problems and those with the means to help.

During the year 2000, the Quirino family, Julio, Angelica and children Raquel (4 years), and Samuel (just 7 months), settled in Nairobi Kenya. The Quirinos relocated from South America to Kenya under the auspices of Africa Inland Mission (AIM). 

Unlike NGOs and foreign researchers, the goal of the Quirinos was to bring the gospel to Kibera with the focus of building up the people of Kibera, meeting their spiritual needs as well as providing life skills training that would help the Kiberans to help themselves. A main focus of our missions outreach is to train these indigenous Christians and help them to grow and mature to a point they will evangelize their own people.

Native Missionaries

We have the great joy to participate in prayer and financial support for a group of native missionaries, they are born and raised in Kenya.

They are precious servants that know how to live by faith and with little resources.  They have expenses related to food, lodging, health care, and local travel within their mission field.

Native missionaries can reach remote villages and are readily accepted by the people of the village. Being native countrymen, barriers of language and culture are overcome. Native missionaries are doing 90 percent of pioneer missionary work with only a fraction of global mission resources. Their service is a sacrifice and they need your help. 

Investing in their work is your opportunity to take part in God’s eternal plan to reach all nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Please give prayerful consideration to becoming a partner for this project to advance the Kingdom of God toward the neediest and the unreached groups in Kenya.

Your generosity transforms lives and gives us the chance to share hope and love