The History of Abigail Ministries

We had spent a fantastic family holiday on safari and visiting the beaches in Kenya but the images which remained with us were of the many thousands of children begging for food, the ramshackle homes and shops we had seen by the wayside as we travelled extensively throughout the country and generally the destitute and hopeless looks we saw on the faces of so many people as they sat there staring into space or loitering along the dusty roads.

The following year we returned to Kenya, not to the luxury hotels we had stayed in the previous year, but to two Projects we had come to know about in the intervening time.

What we had seen by the roadside on our travels was nothing compared to what we saw when we ventured into the backstreets, the cramped, narrow alleys and muddy, slippery slopes where there is  barely breathing space between the makeshift shacks which the people called ‘home’.

And it was there that we lost our hearts to these people. It was there that the seed for ABIGAIL MINISTRIES was planted and began to take root. Over the next 2 years our involvement with and work of helping the people grew until it became clear that we needed a more official status, and so in November 2004, ABIGAIL MINISTRIES was born.