Dear Friends and Partners in Ministry, “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” (Eph. 3:20-21)

This has been our experience, and we praise Him for all that He has done! $60,000 has now come in for the school building! This building will allow Malava Christian Academy to expand into Junior Secondary School (grades 7-9) and will hold several classrooms, a computer lab, and a teacher’s preparation room. Only $50,000 more to go to reach the $110,000 to begin the building on November 1^st!! The quality of education and the moving of the Holy Spirit are drawing families from a wide variety of backgrounds. Please continue praying that as these children are educated and discipled in the Lord that their faith will grow and the Good News spread in the community. In 2027 there will be over 200 students at Malava Christian Academy!

October 1-16 there will be three young adults from Alaska on site there in Malava sharing their testimonies, teaching at assemblies, and helping with projects. Please pray for Michael, Natalie, and Leigha as they will be encouraging the ROCK staff and spending time with lots of children! These two weeks are always packed full! If you live here in Alaska, come hear their stories on Friday night 6-8pm, October 23^rd, at COTR Wasilla (potluck style).

The projects that supplement the funds needed for the monthly budget of the ministry, helping to pay the 21 salaries of both staff and teachers and helping to fund the Child Sponsorship Program, are coming along well! This month ground has been broken for the very large chicken coop to house 300 layer chickens. Praise God and THANK YOU to all of you donating to these projects through the general fund! We are currently seeing about $6500 come in each month and are reaching out to new donors to bring that amount up to the $10,600 needed monthly over the next few years. We are hoping that in five years we will only be raising funds for the expansion of ROCK’s outreach for the Gospel through a bakery (teaching small business practices), a three-story school building to house 1^st through 12^th grade (so that the multi-purpose structure currently used can be used as an assembly hall again for outreaches and the current structure being built will become the preschool), and a medical clinic!

Lives are being changed, and the Lord exalted and lifted high, in Malava and the surrounding area. ROCK’s vision statement, to become a source of hope, healing, and restoration for families through the knowledge of Christ’s deep love and the empowerment of education, is becoming realized. Please continue to pray!

Grace and peace,

Kyon and Cindy

Dear Friends and Partners in Ministry,

“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thess. 5:16-18)

Praising God and thanking Him for…

- Cynthia (Bachelor of Commerce), Gideon (Tourism Management), and Samuel (Bachelor of Education) setting out this month on their new adventure as young adults

- the funds for the 300 laying chickens and barn, build to start this September (another project subsidizing the ministry)

- the start of the final school term of 2026 which runs from August 24-October 23

- a team of three from Alaska, led by Michael Sliwa, heading out to serve at ROCK Ministries October 1-16

- a young adult in Alaska willing to volunteer to help Cindy with the fund raising and other ROCK responsibilities

- intercessory prayer nights starting up once-a-month in our home to see “God’s kingdom come and will be done…”

- for the funds that have come in for the school building

Praising God and asking Him for…

- unity among the staff at ROCK, and all Christ’s Body

- a passionate pursuit of God and growing love for His Word among all of us

- an understanding of Christ’s deep love for us and others

- the spiritual climate of Malava to be shifted to one of great joy and trust in the Lord as well as a heart for the broken

- strength, encouragement, and wisdom for Teresa even when resignations come and children go astray

- Moses, and other young adults, to have a deep understanding of their value and purpose

- the remaining amount needed for the school building so that 7^th grade, the start of “junior secondary school”, can be added to Malava Christian Academy in 2027

- the monthly amount needed to bring our general funds up to where they should be as, over the next five years, the projects become well established

Thank you for praying for us and with us.

Grace and peace, Kyon and Cindy

“Prayer becomes the Christian’s greatest privilege. Why? Prayer places the intercessor on the front line of spiritual battle and conquest.” (Destined for the Throne by Billheimer)

Dear Friends, I really look forward to these opportunities each month to connect with you and share what is happening at ROCK Ministries in Malava so that you can join us in the vital ministry of prayer and praise! As I have been studying about prayer, I am becoming more convinced of John Wesley’s statement that “God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.”

Join us in celebrating with Pelah, Teresa and Victor’s daughter, who just graduated with a Bachelor of Business Information Technology. We also received the news of three placements: Samuel to the Bachelor of Education (Arts) with special needs, Cynthia to Bachelor of Commerce, and Gideon to Kitale Polytecnic for Tourism management. All three will begin their programs between August 15-30. We are so proud of them. Pray as they embark on this next part of life’s journey that they will continue to seek the Lord.

The secondary students have all gone back to school since the riots of last month, but these events have shaken the country and caused a reassessment of how youth are being raised. With Teresa’s guidance through the Holy Spirit, and our God-honoring, loving teachers and staff, ROCK and Malava Christian Academy will continue training children to love the Lord with all their hearts and to love their neighbor as themselves. This is why we feel convinced that continuing to grow the school is essential. The new building to accommodate grade seven in 2027 will be started November 1^st. $47,000 of the $110,000 has been raised, praise God! Please share with your friends and family this beautiful opportunity to become a source of hope, healing, and restoration for families through the knowledge of Christ’s deep love and the empowerment of education.

God is blessing our projects to help the ministry one day become more self-supporting for the day-to-day operations. Our cow herd has grown from three to seven in the last two years, and the money for the purchase of the 300 chickens and barn came in a few weeks ago.

Grace and peace, Kyon and Cindy

Dear Friends and Partners in Ministry,

Recent tragic events have occurred on secondary school campuses across Kenya caused by students rioting due to grievances. Sixteen girls were burned to death in a dorm fire late at night, and many other schools experienced vandalism. One of our own ROCK children was involved in the rioting at their boarding school. Students around the nation were sent home indefinitely and now are slowly being sent back. Please pray for the school authorities, parents, and students as they seek peaceful resolutions and repair the damages; and pray for the families whose children died in the fire. The country is mourning these great losses. May Malava Christian Academy be a shining light of God’s love.

All these difficult and challenging times give us an incredible opportunity as Christ-followers to impact a hurting world through compassion and love. As Kenya’s Children’s Department makes the transition from orphanages to foster care by shutting down Charitable Children’s Institutes and training foster families, ROCK Ministries continues to stand on alert diligently keeping watch over the ROCK children that have had to transition, coming around families needing extra support, and staying ready to work alongside the Children’s Department to help children find safety. ROCK Ministries is now well-known in the community as a place to come to in time of need.  The sponsorship program will be expanded one child at a time with the help of ROCK’s fulltime social worker, Beatrice Anupi, and director, Teresa Boyani, and you! Please let us know if you would like to sponsor a child.

Last week we received a call from some dear friends who wanted to pay the $5600 for the chicken project. This amount includes the funds for 300 chicks, their vaccines, a barn, and food. As soon as the funds are received in Kenya, the building will begin. We praise God for His provisions from the $10 to the $5600 and everything in between. No amount is too small and each donation is given sacrificially and with great faith. We have witnessed the “feeding of the 5000” with just “five loaves and two fish” these last six years and are so grateful to God and to all of you that have donated!

Donations have been coming in for the School Building Fund, and the build will begin November 1^st. About $45,000 has come in of the $110,000, and we are trusting God’s total provision in the next couple months. Many of you have given so generously; and to those of you unable to give financially, we have experienced your love and support through prayers and encouraging words. “God will meet all YOUR needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:19).” We are all growing in faith together for His Kingdom and glory!

Please join us in praising God for Pelah, Teresa’s daughter, who has been given a scholarship to a one-month Bible school in September with Torch Bearers and for Samantha, our daughter, who took the Medical College Admissions Test and received a competitive score after studying for months. Please join us in praying for one of ROCK’s young adults who has grown up in ROCK’s children’s home but was away at trade school. He will be facing time in jail for assault due to his drug addiction that has recently come to light. Pray for his healing, restoration, and understanding of God’s deep love.

With deep gratitude to each of you and trusting God in all things, Kyon and Cindy

Hi! My name is Julianna and I am a part of the team that is now back home in Alaska. Because I have two other ministries I will be working with in Kenya until June, I was blessed to get to stay longer at ROCK Ministries after Cindy, Kyon and the team left mid-march. I was able to have my sister-in-law Evelina from Sweden come join me for two weeks. She came as soon as Cindy, Kyon, and the others left. They got to hug her briefly at the airport and then they were on their way back to Alaska! Evelina was exactly the morale boost me and everyone at ROCK needed as we were quite sad after the team left.

Due to a death in the Director Teresa’s family, we went with her to her family home in Kisumu and stayed with her girls while her and her husband Victor attended funeral ceremonies. Evelina and I had a true Kenyan experience, or as Teresa called it, “an adventure!” We went to the bathroom in a hole in the ground and bathed using a bucket! It was such a cool experience to see how most Kenyans do these daily things. After the weekend, we went back to Malava, preparing the whole time to be the guest speakers for the school that week. We were tasked with the theme of “Courage.” So, Evelina and I took turns teaching bible stories, playing games, and leading worship for the kids once (sometimes twice) a day.

We taught them about Daniel and the Lion’s Den, Queen Esther, Elisha and the Chariots, Joshua becoming leader of God’s people, David and Goliath, and last but not least JESUS! The children learned who courage comes from and that with God ALL things are possible. We also had the honor of teaching them new songs. One of our favorites is called, “Abba, I belong to you!” which repeats that simple phrase over and over. The children taught Evelina and I it in Swahili, “Baba, mimi ni wako!” And then Evelina brought her own culture in by teaching us it in Swedish, “Papa, jag ar din!” How memorable! I hope to never forget all of the ROCK Students, teachers, and staff singing about how we belong to God.

For Kenyans, April is a holiday month for schools. So, for the final half-week leading up to April 1st, classes were busy with sports days and getting ready to wrap up the term. During that time, Evelina and I took a few days just to be with the Lord and pray. Ministry, as many of you know, can be taxing and we all need rejuvenation from the Lord. It was so amazing to have the space to do that and to be send off in high spirits feeling refreshed.

This place and these people have become like a family to me—my heart will always be with them and already longs to return. Thank YOU for praying for us, the prayers were felt and needed. The staff on ground here in Malava are praying for you all as well. And I’ll have you know, I have never met a prayer warrior like a Kenyan.

Dear Friends, Kyon and I couldn’t be more excited that in two weeks we will be with our ROCK family in Kenya once again, and we’re taking three wonderful people with us – Kaitlyn Johnson, Kaylee King, and Wendi Revilak. All three join us with a passion for Jesus and a deep love for others.

We depart Anchorage at 7am on February 23^rd and finally arrive at Malava on the evening of the 25^th. Kenya is half-way around the world from Alaska! The first few days all the children will be home for a short holiday; so, we will have time to bond over games, chores, prayer walks in the neighborhood, kitchen duty, devotional times, and…s’mores 😊 On Saturday the 28^th, a board meeting. On Sunday, a trip to Teresa and Victor’s church in Kisumu to share with the youth and young adults. (Topics are deep, like mental health, but we’re excited to focus on the GOOD NEWS of who we are in Christ Jesus!)

Monday through Friday, March 2-6, school will be in session so we will have the joy of participating in assemblies and classroom devotionals as well as aiding the teachers. I’ve been pondering the Malava Christian Academy theme this year, “Realigning with the Mindset of Christ”. The beauty of our relationship with Jesus is that it is about abiding, not striving. Love, joy, peace… are fruit of the Spirit that is produced in us as we cling to Jesus! Please pray that we can be an encouragement to the 180 children and 21 staff members/families, along with our ROCK children, as we share our personal testimonies of where we have witnessed God at work in our lives and the lives of others.

Saturday the 7^th will be a Children’s Rally where about nine different schools from the local area will be invited to share a day with us of hearing the Gospel. Last year about 400 children attended this rally, breaking out into small groups in the afternoon for a time of discussion. Our team will be paired up with staff and teachers.

The second, and last, Sunday we are in Malava, all the staff and their families will come to worship, and fellowship, together in the multi-purpose hall. Kyon will teach a Bible study regarding the grace of God. This will be such a sweet way to end our time before starting the long trip back on Monday the 9^th. We arrive back in Anchorage on the 10^th and will be hosting three potlucks to share our testimonies! We are so grateful for your prayers. Please pray for Teresa’s family as well as they grieve the loss of Victor’s dear mother. The memorial service was on the 7^th and a meaningful time for all who attended. What a beautiful legacy she has left behind! Grace and peace, Kyon and Cindy

Love, blessings and peace in this new season, another year that the Lord has given to us. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We are just settling down in the new year, all schools have reopened and all our kids at different levels are back to school. It is a year that we intend to align with the mindset of Christ (Philippians 2:5) by responding to the calling to learn from Christ and align to his will and purpose, to walk in obedience to His instructions, and to influence the world as the salt and the light.

Our pupils in Malava Christian Academy are back excited in their new classes and ready to learn. Looking forward to a great year ahead. The school population has grown to 180 students! Our beginners’ class in preschool has an enrollment of 30 pupils. All the other classes have received new comers as well, and we thank God for this enlargement as we continue trusting him to nurture and empower the gifts in these children academically, socially, and spiritually.

We have two more students that ROCK Ministries is sponsoring to attend Malava Christian Academy (Mitchelle, Grade One and Emmanuel Grade One). We also have two new teachers (Nancy, teaching Kiswahili and English, and Maclaud, teaching social studies and math) joining us. Grade Six was launched this year. I normally refer to this pioneer class as our EBENEZER class, “this far the Lord has brought us.” They will be sitting for their national assessment exams at the end of this year to proceed to Junior Secondary School in the coming year. (Praying for the school building to launch Grade Seven 2027.)

We have three students we are supporting in college (Moses, Joshua, and Molly) and three more will be joining this group in September (Cynthia, Samuel, and Gideon).  We continue sponsoring all of the children from the children’s home, as well as those who have transitioned to their family/foster homes, with their school tuitions along with other children from the community: seven students in Junior and Senior Secondary School, eleven in public primary schools, and seven at Malava Christian Academy. We settled seven of our ROCK children back with their families and, so far, we thank God for the smooth, gradual transition. All these children are being visited by Beatrice Anupi, ROCK’s social worker. (All donations to ROCK pay staff salaries, tuition fees for sponsored children, and needs for children still in the home and those being fostered, as well as pay for projects that will eventually help the school and sponsorship program be self-funded minus large construction.)

So grateful to God for what He has already done this January and looking forward to a visit from Kyon, Cindy, and team February 23 – March 10! Yours faithfully, Teresa Boyani

Another blessed time to send our special greetings to you with such grateful hearts to God and to you, to let you know of the faithfulness and blessings of God so as to sing together “Oh come let us adore Him Christ the King”, for He alone is worthy of our praise and thanksgiving. We can confidently say the year has been good, not that there were no challenges, but because in His presence we have peace and joy, and the fact that we are assured God holds all things together and brings us to triumph.

We are so happy this year has been a year of increase: our school increased in population, we were blessed with two calves, our milk yield increased, one of the staff was blessed with a baby, the warmth and joy of family increased. We also experienced an increase in maize harvest, not forgetting expansion in the population of the children and families being impacted by Rock Ministries in the home, Malava Christian Academy, and in the Malava, Machemo community.

Believing God is able to do just what He says He will do. He will continue to guide us even in the areas we are venturing in for the first time especially when thinking of the childcare reforms that are currently taking place and the emphasis on family-based care compared to the institutionalized care that has been there. We take it positively understanding the approach (how we do it) may change but the vision and mission of ROCK Ministries is compact and intact (to impact children and families with the love of God). We will continue to nurture children and empower them through education (school), spiritually (the Word of God), and also ensuring they are trained in basic life skills needed in the day-to-day life. Thumbs up to our staff who have been very dedicated to ensure this is achieved.

Psalm 107:4 Indeed the Lord has lifted the needy out of their affliction and increased their families like flocks through ROCK Ministries. This year we were able to support children in the home and community (a radius of 6km), 17 in primary and junior school, seven in high

school, and three in colleges, not forgetting the population of 146 pupils in the Malava Christian School. This is the doing of the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes, we lay every crown at his feet, we give Him all the glory! A big thanks to all our supporters and the Yi family that have coordinated the team.

We thank God for the monthly staff fellowships that we managed to have, this helped us grow spiritually as we were nourished through Bible study sessions and teachings in the devotions too. This helped in equipping the staff for the mission.

What then lies ahead of us in 2026? Jeremiah 29:11 We are trusting God who crowns our year with bounty to take us to another level in faith, where we can take care of more children and families as the needy children are many. We will now be supporting them from home and not actually bringing them into the ROCK home. We look forward to integrating the children in the ROCK home currently back to their extended families and some to foster care, the emphasis being the best interest of each child. We will continue supporting their education and care while in these various homes.

We are looking forward to launching grade six in the new year, at the same time receiving the beginners in preschool. Looking forward to the new year with thoughts that are pure, noble, praiseworthy, lovely, right ....... Our minds are filled with such good things.

O come let us adore Him, His love endures forever! Wishing you all the best, happy holidays. Merry Christmas, a blessed and prosperous new year.

With love and blessings,

Teresa

Please pour a cup of coffee, settle down in a comfortable chair, and “lean in” because this is going to be the most raw, real, and transparent newsletter you have ever received from us and the pattern for the future. We know who our support team is now and, truly, you are all family. Some of you began with supporting Mom 25-30 years ago. You are her dear friends who have been willing to continue with us praying, giving, and loving “the least of these”. And some of you have joined us more recently since Kyon and I had to step into this role of raising prayer and financial support for the ministry so the orphanage and school could continue to thrive. This was a responsibility we had not anticipated, or felt called to, but is now ours. As God has often done with us, He places an opportunity in front of us that we know the only answer is “Yes Lord”, but our hearts take a while to follow. This has been the case with these three examples: 1) ROCK Ministries since we first received the call of Mom’s dementia diagnosis, 2) our adopted son Mason who we received at 2 ½ years old, and 3) Taiden our foster daughter (Mason’s biological sister) who very tragically ended her life on September 11, 2024. This has not been an easy journey. The only way to keep from drowning has been to “fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith (Heb. 12:2).” But we see what God is doing in our hearts –softening, humbling, growing our TOTAL dependency, and… preparing us!

Now we face a new challenge mandated by the Kenyan government, but overseen by our Sovereign God (Rom. 13:1). We walk boldly into this new season unafraid knowing that God has His plans for ROCK Ministries, and His ways are far above our ways (Isaiah 55:9). Kenya is adopting the Foster Care model and closing down Charitable Children’s Institutes, transition to happen in the next five years. Does this change ROCK’s vision of “becoming a source of hope, healing, and restoration for families through the knowledge of Christ’s deep love and the empowerment of education”? Absolutely not! In fact, we see that our reach is expanding now as the Children’s Department is asking us to FIND HOMES for the 16 children currently in our care, PROVIDE for the needs of the children until they graduate, and CARE FOR the foster families receiving our children into their homes. Currently six children will already be transitioned back into the care of family members by the end of December but will remain under the watch and supervision of ROCK’s fulltime social worker, Beatrice Anupi. Not only these opportunities, but ROCK Ministries has already been sponsoring children from the community whose families have come to the attention of Beatrice that are not even students at Malava Christian Academy nor in the guardianship of our children’s home. And, by the way, Beatrice was herself an orphan who cried out to God that if He would help her through university, she would dedicate her career to helping other vulnerable children. What a blessing she is!

Teresa Boyani, ROCK’s director, has been tasked by the Children’s Department to inform people about the foster care system and seek out families for the rest of the children. She has gone to local churches and found 12 families who are ready and willing to go through the training to receive our precious children. Some of these families are from among our own staff members! Praise the Lord!!

Through Malava Christian Academy we have the amazing opportunity of changing the lives of 148+ students (sixth grade being added January 2026), and their families. We continue to raise funds for the school because we want to offer this Christian education to EVERY child in the community regardless of tribe or socioeconomic status. Our prayer is that over time our projects (cows, chickens, bakery, farm…) will be able to provide enough financial support to sustain the monthly budget of the school and child sponsorship programs. We will also be developing a strategic Family Strengthening Program that will utilize these projects as educational tools. The dream would be to offer parenting, marriage, and small business classes in the future as well.

Kyon and I are inviting you to remain on this great adventure of faith with us and share this opportunity with others! Our monthly budget requires about $10,000 to meet expenses including staff salaries, and we are about half-way there thanks to many of you! Also, we desperately need a school building and have $21,000 towards the $110,000 needed to build. Will you help us get all the way to these financial goals by praying, giving, and sharing our story with others? We are so grateful for each of you!

Grace and peace, Kyon and Cindy

(Teresa Boyani, the director of ROCK Ministries and the one on the ground at Malava, is graciously helping to write the monthly newsletters. Any comments of mine will be italicized.) Thank God it's been a month since schools opened and all our children have settled back well. Very soon, on October 22^nd, the learners will be going on a long holiday until January 2026 when schools reopen. This is the shortest but busiest term, especially considering that final exams for candidates at different levels will be undertaken in November.

So grateful to God for yet another opportunity to be in training on the alternative child-care options since we are looking forward to phasing out children's institutions in six years' time. (Last week Teresa met with two other Charitable Children Institutes, the Children’s Department, and various government entities to discuss the upcoming foster care system the Kenyan government wants to implement.) Trusting God to roll out programs that will care for the children as they stay within families, and to develop an approach that is embracing the family as a unit to improve on the optimum care of the child. For now, we are expected to do a community sensitization concerning foster care and parenting which will be followed by recruitment of prospective foster parents for training. (Teresa will be reaching out to various churches. Please pray that Christian families will see the opportunity that lies before them. It seems that the cost of placing these children, and of providing a stipend to the families, will come through these ministries such as ours.) Thank you for partnering with us to ensure that the children are supported and nurtured in the right way that will benefit them in the future.

Currently preparing for our annual graduation ceremony for the Kindergarten class who will be joining Grade one in January. The children are very excited and looking forward to the transition. We thank God for all the teachers and other staff who are working as a team to ensure the success of the day and, at the same time, praying for God's favor and blessings. We are hopeful and trusting God that we will be able to accommodate another new class (Grade 6) next year, committing all our plans to God whom we believe is faithful to establish the plans for the sake of His name and for His glory. (Currently $21,000 of the $110,000 needed for the new classrooms has come in. Thank you so much! Please pray with us for the remainder of these funds and share about this need with friends and family. Here is the specific link for the School Building Project: www.newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2713/. All donations for both the general needs and the school building can also be given through www.rockministriesinternational.com.

"For I know the plans I have for you.... plans to give you a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).” Keep trusting and waiting, hold onto faith, and know that the Lord is able. Shalom. Teresa (and Cindy)