Home Care Kits for Africa




May 11 – June 15
Churches collect buckets of designated items


June 16 – 19
Churches take buckets to collection sites


June 20 and June 23-26
Kentucky Disaster Relief trucks will pick up buckets


General Information
In 2007 over 1.6 million adults and children died in Sub-Sahara Africa because of AIDS. At the present 22.5 million children and adults are living with the HIV virus. Because of lack of health care, the limited access to drug treatments, and the continued increase in the spread of HIV, thousands die a very painful and horrible death each year. Often the only care they receive is at home.

Kentucky Baptists have been asked by Baptist Global Response to provide home care kits to be used by our IMB missionaries to minister to caregivers and disease victims in three areas that have been ravaged by this horrible disease. The home care kits will be used in ministry in the Baptist Fellowship of Zambia’s palliative care ministry, in the home care ministry of Sanyati Baptist Hospital in Central Zimbabwe, and to a ministry in South Africa in the district with the highest per capita rate of HIV positive victims in the world. These home care kits will bring help and the hope of Christ to some of the world’s most hopeless.

The Kentucky WMU and Baptist Men on Mission are working together to meet this tremendous need among the “least of these" in these three nations in southern Africa. We have arranged collection sites across Kentucky and delivery to our International Mission Board in Virginia. We invite you to join us in giving hope to the hopeless.

Preparing A Home Care Kit

Click here for detailed detailed instructions, including prayer suggestions, shopping lists, and assembly instructions.

Please follow all instructions -- including shopping lists and assembly instructions -- very carefully. This is necessary for uniformity in packing and shipping as well as customs approval in recipient countries.

Drop-Off Locations

Region 1
Blood River Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
47 Aurora Hwy
Hardin, Ky.
270-437-4203

Region 1
Caldwell-Lyon Association
Drop Off Location: First Baptist Church, Princeton
300 W. Main St.
Princeton, Ky.
270-365-5591

Region 1
Graves Association
Drop Off Location: First Baptist Church, Mayfield
118 W. South St.
Mayfield, Ky.
270-247-2992

Region 2
Daviess-Mclean Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
1003 Scherm Rd
Owensboro, Ky.
270-684-2377

Region 2
Little Bethel Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
445 Thompson Ave
Madisonville, Ky.
270-821-6400

Region 3
Warren Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
6448 Scottsville Rd.
Bowling Green, Ky.
270-842-4160

Region 3
Severns Valley Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
500 College St. Rd
Elizabethtown, Ky.
270-765-4023

Region 4
Long Run Association
Drop Off Location: FBC Highland Park
7321 Billtown Rd
Louisville, Ky.
502-231-3917

Region 5
Crittenden Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
305 N. Main St.
Williamstown, Ky.
859-824-7755

Region 5
Rowan Co. Association
Drop Off Location: FBC, Morehead
123 E. Main St.
Morehead, Ky.
606-784-5768

Region 6
Elkhorn Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
1161 Red Mile
Lexington, Ky.
859-254-7747

Region 7
Pulaski Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
116 Mill St.
Somerset, Ky.
606-678-4465

Region 7
Lincoln Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
4160 Hwy 27, South
Stanford, Ky.
606-365-7123

Region 8
Bell Co Association
Drop Off Location: FBC, Pineville
405 Kentucky Ave.
Pineville, Ky.
606-337-2040

Region 8
Laurel River Association
Drop Off Location: FBC, London
804 W. 5th St.
London, Ky.
606-864-4194

Region 8
Pike Association
Drop Off Location: Association Office
79 Ratliff St
Pikeville, Ky.
606-432-2660