Nairobi, Kenya
Daystar University has a 10-acre piece of land on their 300-acre Athi river campus, about 25 miles southeast of Nairobi, they are developing into a student leadership camp. The IMPACT team joined with Daystar, Kenyan leaders, and other missionaries to clear the land, build choos (toilet facilities) and ropes course structures for this camp as well as relationships with some of our brothers and sisters in Africa. Mornings began at 6:00 AM with morning exercises, scripture memorization, and personal worship time. After a grueling day of work the team enjoyed cold showers, group worship time and the beds provided for them in the university dormitories. Meals were shared in the dining hall with students attending two of the summer sessions at Daystar. The trip included outreach to mission agencies in Nairobi, like Mother Theresa’s orphanage, visitation of a community IMPACT has worked with in the past, and time to see some of the culture and history of Kenya.

Topsville, Philippines
Metro-Manila is home to over 10 million people - 3 million of whom live in extreme poverty. This year the IMPACT team returned for the fourth time to work with Habitat for Humanity in the Philippines. The whole 300-member village greeted them when they arrived. The 15 missionaries lived in a developing Habitat community outside Manila. They woke up with the roosters at dawn, ate breakfast, had morning devotionals and headed off to build houses with the community in very hot, very humid weather. Team members experienced life-changing relationships in Topsville - spending their mornings in prayer, their days working side by side with Filipinos, their afternoons playing, talking, and building relationships with the locals, and their evenings worshiping and reflecting on the movement of God in their lives. The team experienced joy as God re-introduced IMPACT into the lives of these warm and gracious Filipinos.