Mission to the
unreached people
OUR MISSION TO THE ILERET
We at Echoes of Mercy Mission are called to reach the most unreached and vulnerable people. A new chapter was opened in September 2024 with our calling to the Dasanach people of Ileret, Kenya.
In 2016, we welcomed Aden Iyayo into the Echoes of Mercy Christian School family. A bright eyed eight-year-old girl from a community many of us had never heard of. She grew and thrived in school her story quietly worked on our hearts. She was a living testament to transformation and her life posed a silent compelling question: What about the family and the people she left behind?
The distant, arid region of Ileret presents huge challenges, with impassable roads making a simple visit a three-day journey. Undeterred, we embarked on our first fact-finding tour by chartered aircraft in September 2024.
What we saw was a population subsisting in extreme poverty. Touched by what we saw, we returned on multiple missionary journeys, extending even further our commitment
-makers for Ileret.
- First Trip (September 2024): We gave initial relief food and clothing, showing God’s love and recognizing needs much bigger than we could have ever imagined.
- Second Trip (March 2025): We returned with Bibles, food, and clothing. We preached the gospel and had 400 salvations, and began discipling new believers.
- Third Trip (September 2025): We took 15 orphaned kids on board in our Christian school to live with a safe home and quality education—a harbinger of the next change
The Needs We Are Addressing are focused on five critical areas that require urgent attention and long-term intervention:
- A Spiritual Home: New believers are asking, “What now?” They need a real church to nurture their faith and train local pastors.
- Clean Water: Non-functional wells cover the landscape. The only long-term answer is to sanitize the water of Lake Turkana to treat a source of sickness.
- Quality Education: Illiteracy is maintained through a lack of schools, teachers, and facilities. A boarding school is essential to provide a secure learning environment.
- Basic Healthcare: The lack of healthcare is claiming many lives, especially those of children.
- Food Security: The prolonged drought has killed their livestock. The community is ready to work in irrigation farms to feed their families.
In response to the urgent needs identified, we have launched a comprehensive, holistic mission in Ileret to address five critical areas: Preaching the gospel and planting churches , clean water, quality education, basic healthcare, and food security. Our integrated approach involves constructing a 500-capacity church and training center to disciple new believers and raise local pastors, installing a solar-powered water purification plant to provide 10,000 liters of clean water daily from Lake Turkana, and building a phased K-12 boarding school to break the cycle of illiteracy and poverty. While establishing sustainable irrigation farms for long-term food security, we will continue immediate humanitarian relief with monthly food aid and yearly clothing distributions. We are dedicated to this redemptive effort, walking alongside the Dasanach people to share both living water, daily bread, and the eternal hope of the Gospel.