Mustard Seed House Impact 2025: 6,000 Patients Welcomed, Thousands of Lives Touched
In 2025 alone, Mustard Seed House (MSH) welcomed over 6,000 patients and caregivers both in Mustard Seed House Tenwek and Kijabe. Each guest arrived carrying a story of medical need, long journeys, uncertainty, and hope. What they found was more than accommodation, they found care, dignity, and the love of Christ.
What began in early 2021 as a small act of obedience has grown into a life-saving ministry serving families from across Kenya and more than six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
From One Family to Thousands
Mustard Seed House first opened near AGC Tenwek Hospital in 2021, operating from a small three-bedroom rented home. Its purpose was simple yet urgent: to provide Christian care and a safe place to stay for families traveling far from home for medical treatment, often for their children.
In 2023, Faith Aid expanded the vision by opening a second Mustard Seed House near AIC Kijabe Hospital, within walking distance of the facility. Since then, families from Nairobi, remote counties, and neighboring countries have found refuge there as they seek specialized care.
Five years later, Mustard Seed House has become a vital lifeline, especially for families who must make multiple hospital visits, sometimes up to six or more, during long and difficult treatment journeys.
When There Is Nowhere Else to Go
For many families, accommodation is the greatest challenge. Without resources to pay for lodging, they are often forced to:
- Sleep outside hospitals
- Stay on church floors
- Rely on strangers
- Travel back home before treatment is complete
Mustard Seed House exists to remove the burden, so families can stay together, rest safely, and focus on healing.
Stories That Define the Impact
When baby Blessing was born with a cleft palate, his mother Doreen entered a season filled with fear, long hospital visits, and costly feeding requirements. After traveling more than 400 kilometers for her son’s cleft surgery at Kijabe Hospital, Doreen was asked to remain nearby for follow-up care, but she had no money for accommodation or transport home.
That’s when she was welcomed to Mustard Seed House Kijabe.
“I cried when they told me about this place. We were welcomed with love. Mustard Seed House became a place of peace for me and my son.”
-Blessing’s Mom, Doreen
Here, she and her baby found a warm bed, meals, and a caring community that carried them through one of the hardest seasons of their lives. Today, Baby Blessing continues his healing journey with dignity and hope, because Mustard Seed House made room when they had nowhere else to go.
At Mustard Seed House Tenwek, Joyce and her baby boy Lemayian found refuge during a medical crisis. Born with hydrocephalus, Lemayian urgently needed neurosurgery. His parents, subsistence farmers, could not afford the hospital admission fee
Through Faith Aid’s Neurosurgery Compassion Fund, Lemayian received the surgery he desperately needed. During treatment and recovery, Joyce and her son stayed at Mustard Seed House.
“I had lost hope. But at Mustard Seed House, I found love, prayer, and people who cared for us as my son recovered.”
-Lemayian’s Mom, Joyce
Seventeen-year-old Abraham traveled all the way from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Tenwek Cardiothoracic Center for life-saving heart surgery. The journey was long and frightening, not knowing where they would stay or who would receive them
At Mustard Seed House, Abraham and his brother were welcomed with open arms.
“We were welcomed by strangers who treated us like family. We had a place to eat, sleep, pray, and rest. We lacked nothing. We are going back to Congo full of testimonies.”
-Abraham’s brother
Every guest hosted in 2025 received more than accommodation, they experienced community, compassion, and the love of Christ. Because of faithful partners and supporters, Mustard Seed House continues to stand with families in their most vulnerable moments, one life, one story, one night at a time.