Keith McFarland

I grew up in West Virginia before heading off to Chicago where I was ravaged and remade by the Gospel and introduced to at-risk children. After working for four years in the projects of Cabrini Green (and attending Bible College), I sold what possessions I had and moved to Zambia where I lived with a Zambian family and worked with street kids.

I then took a train and bused around East Africa checking out various ministries to children. I returned to Chicago, was grounded in a local church, married my wife, and eight months later returned to Rwanda and Uganda, where we attended the New Hope Institute of Childcare and Family and fell in love with the glorious Father of the fatherless. It's been home to us (and now our five children) ever since.

I enjoy being a husband and father, teaching, reading, playing futbol and basketball, running, coffee, growing fruit trees, farming, growing and processing coffee, family walks, rhodesian ridgebacks, roses, and wood.