All are welcome to learn more about Reagan’s mission for Rehema Home
By Mary Gardner-Ruch
Wellsville native, Shaye Reagan, Executive Director of Rehema Home US, will be the guest speaker at Tuesdays With Grace on October 15th, 2024. Rehema Home US is a nonprofit that works with its sister agency, Rehema Home Kenya. Rehema Home Kenya exists to give a home to orphaned and abandoned children in Kenya, Africa. Currently, the nonprofit is celebrating 25 years since it began.
The home was a response to the high orphan crisis in the late 1990s due to HIV/AIDS which disproportionally affected Sub-Saharan Africa. As of today, Rehema home has been home to 189 children. When a child comes to live there, they are considered a son or a daughter.
On Tuesday, October 15th, a light lunch will be served at 12:30 pm at Grace United Church located at 289 North Main Street in Wellsville. Lunch will be followed by Shaye’s presentation. She plans to share about the home, as well as the time spent there with her husband, Devon Reagon, and their two children. Shaye has visited twice, and people from the community have been very generous, donating shoes, socks, underwear, backpacks, clothing, and toys. Shaye says, “ The Hot Wheel Cars and the Beanie Babbies were a huge hit”. She would love to have people attend the presentation who have donated to the various drop boxes, and learn the impact of their kindness.
Read more about Shaye and her son Harrison’s trip to Kenya in 2022: