| Bill and Pam Keefer |
| CHCH History |
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| Bill and Pam Keefer were at the orphanage from July 1992, until October 1995, but were involved in the work since July 1989. They adopted Renel after their first trip in 89 and then adopted Joseline, Marie Lore, and Salnave while they were living there. They were initially sent to the orphanage by the Park Forest Church of Christ in Matteson, IL through their connections with the African Christian Foundation. Bill was a nurse and Pam had just finished her master's in Health Administration. They went to conduct medical clinics with Evelyn Boyd. They relieved Evelyn when she returned to the United States in 1992. The building that is now the clinic was initially built by the Park Forest church for the widows and widowers to live in. However they had to return to the states just as it was being finished so did not get it up and running. Later when the Clinton AR group wanted to start a clinic, the elders at Ada agreed to allow the orphanage to use the building for the clinic. Now the Bill and Pam's kids are grown. Renel is in the Air Force and Salnave is in the Army National Guard. Joseline lives nearby them in Arkansas and has two children so they are also getting to enjoy the "second generation" of the original group of kids. Pam put together this slide show. She hopes to continue to expand the slides as time allows. If she does get more done, we will post it here. Bill and Pam made a book of the kids that lived there from the beginning until around 1997. Eventually they would like to turn that into a slide show too. |
| Click on any thumbnail below to enlarge the pic. |
| A special thanks to Sandy Swann and Tony Hill for helping get Evelyn's scanned pics into jpeg format. Now we have them all! |
| Orphanage and kids circa 1990. |
| Evelyn in truck, 1990. |