Pastor John and Lucy Kiuk and their children live and minister in the Masai tribal area of Kenya. Lucy spends her time teaching gardening and healthful eating. This work is essential for helping the Masai people replace their blood beverage with a diet that includes fruits and vegetables.
 Living in the remote areas of Kenya and Tanzania, the Masai are herders and shepherds. Their diet consists of milk, blood, and flesh. Lucy gathers village women in small groups to teach them a better way. She presents classes in gardening, cooking, sanitation, and diet. The women are beginning to plant healthy, productive gardens.
Nanyikai lives about twenty kilometers from the village where Lucy and John have their home. She had trouble with the Masai diet and was ill much of the time. She had never heard about the living God who made all things.
Even though villages are often a great distance from each other, the news spreads quickly throughout the Masai tribespeople. Nanyikai heard about the classes on health and nutrition that Lucy was conducting and made the long trip to the Kiuk home. She was so impressed that she began to visit Lucy monthly.
During one of Nanyikai’s visits, Pastor John and Lucy gave lectures on gardening, sanitation, and healthful diet—and about the love of God and the future that is possible to a believer in Jesus. For the first time in her life, Nanyikai heard the story of Jesus and His love. Her heart was touched by the way Jesus spent His time helping people. She was thrilled to hear that Jesus has the power even to raise the dead and give new life.
 Nanyikai planted a small garden near her home, and was able to share her new-found faith with her friends. Soon a Bible study class was formed in her home and 22 women joined the class. In addition to studying the scriptures together, they plant fruits and vegetables together.
Through a simple vegetable garden, more lives are being changed for the better, and almost certainly for eternity!
The Quiet Hour is helping with two projects for the Masai people of Kenya: in 2005, we have raised funds to buy lean cows that the Masai people fatten and sell at a profit to benefit their Christian school needs; and in a region where there is no school at all, The Quiet Hour is raising donated funds to build a Christian school from the ground up. Donate to Naroosura Christian School
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