BUILD FOR THE FUTUREPowered by The Bennett Sims Memorial Construction Fund
Building Places Where Children Can Thrive
A school’s physical environment matters. Build for the Future supports appropriate facility improvements that help create more functional, welcoming and dignified places for students and staff.
Support School FacilitiesThe Need
Schools may face infrastructure needs involving learning spaces, kitchens, sanitation or other essential facilities. Priorities are defined with school leaders and supported by verified plans and budgets with our contractor partner, Mbagu Builders.
Our Response
We work with local partners to evaluate projects, develop practical scopes and steward construction resources responsibly. Projects are undertaken as funding and implementation capacity permit.
Faith in Action
Our faith calls us to serve through action. Improving the spaces children use each day is one tangible way we seek to demonstrate Christ’s love.
We thank the builders who bring skill and care to each project, the school and community leaders who guide local priorities, the volunteers who give their time and energy, and the donors whose generosity makes this work possible. Together, these gifts help create places where children can learn and thrive, putting Christ’s love into action.
“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”1 Peter 4:10 (New International Version)
The Bennett Sims Memorial Construction Fund
The Bennett Sims Memorial Construction Fund honors Bennett’s memory through school construction and refurbishment projects that serve children and communities. Project priorities are developed with local partners, with gifts administered according to applicable donor restrictions.
Recently Completed Projects
Help Build for the Future
Partner with us in meeting priority school facility needs and supporting environments where children can learn and grow.
BUILD FOR THE FUTURE
Building Places Where Children Can Thrive
A school’s physical environment matters. Build for the Future supports appropriate facility improvements that help create more functional, welcoming and dignified places for students and staff.
Powered by the Bennett Sims Memorial Construction Fund
The Need
Schools may face infrastructure needs involving learning spaces, kitchens, sanitation or other essential facilities. Priorities should be defined with school leaders and supported by verified plans and budgets.
Practical improvements can help create safer, more dignified school environments.
In action: In 2025, the ministry partnered with Mbagu Builders to construct new latrines at Munyu-ini Primary School. The photographs below document this project.
Our Response
We work with local partners to evaluate projects, develop practical scopes and steward construction resources responsibly. Projects are undertaken as funding and implementation capacity permit.
Local partnership: In 2024, the ministry partnered with Mbagu Builders to refurbish the kitchen at Kirangi Primary School and construct new latrines and a sidewalk at Kagio Primary School.
Faith in Action
Our faith calls us to serve through action. Improving the spaces children use each day is one tangible way we seek to demonstrate Christ’s love.
We serve children and communities with dignity and compassion, regardless of religious background. Assistance is not conditioned on participation in religious activities.
Practical service: The 2023 projects included kitchens at Munyu-ini and Kagio Primary Schools, and tiling and exhaust venting at Nduchi Primary School.
Honoring the Bennett Sims Memorial Construction Fund
Established in 2018 in memory of founding board member Bennett Sims, the Bennett Sims Memorial Construction Fund supports the ministry’s refurbishment and construction projects.
The fund remains an important part of our construction heritage. Gifts designated to this fund are administered in accordance with its established purpose and applicable restrictions.
Through faithful generosity and local partnership, this legacy continues to help build places where children can learn and grow.
Projects and Priorities
We will share project descriptions, approved budgets and progress updates as details are verified and available for publication.
Our construction history includes classrooms, kitchens, sanitation, walkways and other improvements to essential school facilities.
A Legacy of Practical Improvements
In 2021, projects included an Early Childhood Development classroom, resurfacing the lower veranda, sinks and wash stations, and a sidewalk connecting the upper and lower wings. Njoroge Furniture also constructed 85 desks for Nduchi students.
Supporting School Nourishment
In 2020, the ministry partnered with Mbagu Builders to construct The Lord’s Kitchen, equipped with three jikos using charcoal or firewood.
Local fundi Timothy Githinjo outfitted the storeroom with shelving and tables for the kitchen.
Help Build for the Future
Partner with us in meeting priority school facility needs and supporting environments where children can learn and grow.
Your prayers, generosity and partnership help us put faith into action through practical service.
Our construction heritage: the photographs below show 2019 improvements to classroom floors, window and doorframes, skylights and the upper-wing veranda, alongside exterior painting by the mission team.
