For more than a decade, I was a volunteer missionary at the Open Arms Children's Home assisting in the care of more than 250 children and 360 students enrolled in Open Arms Academy, an elementary school. Pastor Okeyo and I worked closely together in the spiritual formation of the Open Arms Village residents and surrounding community members.

Now that the assignment in Kenya has ended, I am being sent to the nations. Since leaving Kenya in late June, I have gone to Brazil twice – September and December 2024.

For more than a decade, I was a volunteer missionary at the Open Arms Children's Home assisting in the care of more than 250 children and 360 students.

My next international mission trip will be to three countries with three different ministry organizations in March and April 2025. I went to India with a trauma training team in December of 2023. They have invited me to go with them to Nepal in March 2025.

We will be working with an anti-human trafficking ministry that houses under-age girls, a training institution for pastors, and schools.

Now that the assignment in Kenya has ended, I am being sent to the nations.

I will stop off in Kenya, on my way to Nepal, to visit my Kenyan family at the Open Arms Children’s Home the first week of March. In fact, I will be at the Open Arms Village three times during the multi-country mission. We are looking forward to that reunion! I am certain opportunities for ministry will happen while I am there.

Pastor Joel Towett and I have been invited to Uganda for the Africa Healing Rooms (AHR) summit the first week of April.  He was my primary mission partner in East Africa.

The director of AHR, Carol, was on a Global Awakening ministry team with me in Brazil. Carol was asked to start a healing room in Eldoret, but she needed a reliable contact there. Thus, I connected her with pastor Towett. We will work with Carol and her team to train Kenyans for a healing room in Eldoret before I return to Oregon, USA  April 19, 2025.

Blessings,
Tara M. Lepp
Itinerant Missionary