Sisters of Mary of Kakamega

"To share in the Redemptive

Mission of Jesus Christ."

Sisters of Mary is a Religious Congregation which was started by the late Bishop Brandsma, a Mill Hill Missionary in 1932 in the Diocese of Kakamega in Kakamega, Kenya.  He requested the help of the Ursuline Sisters from Bergen-Holland as to assist with the religious formation of the African girls who wished to become sisters.  With time and God's blessing, the congregation has spread beyond this diocese and has 76 houses opened up in Kakamega, other diocese in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan and now America.

This congregation was founded with the aim of spreading the Good News and fostering the education of the African women so as to uplift their standards of living in a world where they seemed to be completely marginalized by their male counterparts.  Some of these young girls were also trained as religious nuns to help other girls and women to learn to be self sufficient in order to enhance and  improve their standards of living.  The congregation started off with only five girls in 1932 but today they have grown to approximately 330 Sisters.

The Religious Sisters of Mary of Kakamega...arrived for ministerial service in the Diocese of Baker in June 2010. The Sisters come from a Community in Kenya, and they bring zeal for souls and a spirit of joy which promises to infect the entire diocese. In 2015, they opened the Cardinal Otunga Adult Foster Home in Bend, OR, for the Diocese of Baker.