Makki is approximately 820 km south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is located in a very remote area among the Mursi people—animistic, semi-nomadic cattle owners. A small health station provides the base for mobile outreach such as immunization programs, small mobile clinics, and health education.

Community health work with people in mobile settlements is a physical and emotional challenge due to remoteness, severity of climate, and type of people. The health program provides a great evangelistic tool in its outreach program to the Mursi in the grasslands out in the Omo Valley.

The health program has a very important role in the strategy for church planting in Ethiopia. The Mursi Health Program consists of a curative health facility and preventive community health program. A vast need continues in this remote area, and the Mursi are receptive to health teaching and behavioral change. Their desire is to have their own people trained as community health workers, which has resulted in a significant change in their attitude towards sustainable health service. A mobile component is important to spreading the gospel in the wider Mursiland.

The project has a strong link to other teams that work in literacy and understand the Mursi culture and education. The church is small but vibrant; opposition can be fierce.