World Vision has closed its office in the country though it is providing basic relief to the estimated 150,000 displaced people there. The aid and relief ministry is giving mobile toilets, water cans, and blankets to communities who need them.
However, the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) had suspended its flight stating the danger posed by the violence was too intense. Before the flight was cancelled, the Fellowship provided transport to evacuate local citizens or missionaries whose safety was being compromised by the presence of angry mobs.
Meanwhile, the Words of Hope, a ministry proclaiming the Good News of Jesus via the radio and literatures, may have to postpone a study term involving ministry trainees later this month given the turmoil.
"This came at a time when we were in between study terms, and some people were home for their holiday celebration with family members.
Now, returning to work at our center near the Kenya/Sudan border is problematic because of the widespread violence," Lee DeYoung, a spokesperson for the Words of Hope, told Mission Network News (MNN).
The ministry spokesperson continued, saying the transformation of Kenya, from becoming an oasis of stability to another country experiencing anarchy, posed a problem for many Christian ministries given it was the staging area for a lot of them.
"Kenya has been an island of stability and has been the staging area for much ministry into Somalia as well as into Sudan. So this current development is really causing a great deal of concern."
World leaders are calling on both presidential candidates to conduct political negotiation to resolve the conflict peacefully. The two candidates are President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga.