"It's in the people around us who are the most vulnerable where we are going to see the face of God," says Nelson Kraybill, president of Elkhart's Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

"Do you want to reconstitute immune systems or do you want to reconstitute lives?" asks Dr. Joseph Mamlin, who runs a clinic in Kenya that now serves over 60,000 patients. "We've decided to go after lives."

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly this week highlights the growing ties between church communities in western Kenya and Indiana.