Welcome

The on-field counselling ministries of AIM, SIL, and affiliated organizations are based at Tumaini Counselling Center in Nairobi, Kenya. While we serve the members of these organizations, our services also support missionaries from over 160 like-minded agencies throughout Africa. Tumaini is a Swahili
 word meaning “hope.” Our mission is
 to provide preventative and restorative
 mental health services and pastoral care in
 order to enhance missionary resilience and
 fruitfulness. The experienced mental health 
clinicians are missionaries themselves, co-
workers in the Great Commission, and committed to strengthening God’s servants as they follow His call. We accomplish this through on-site care, occasional travel, distance services, seminars, a loaning library, and other resources.

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Our History

Since 1991, Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and Wycliffe Bible Translators International (WBTI) , have worked cooperatively to provide counselling and support services for missionaries at Tumaini Counselling Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.  “Tumaini,” from the Swahili word for hope, is the name of the facility that houses the support teams of AIM , WBTI , and associate counselors. In 2002 we moved into a beautiful facility designed to facilitate our functioning both in our confidential counseling ministry as well as our more public preventative care ministry.