Yei Campus

Est. 2001

Harvesters Reaching the Nations was formed in 2001 in response to the tremendous needs of orphans in South Sudan. Hearing of the plight of these children, an ordinary woman from Wisconsin prayed a simple prayer, “Lord, what can I do?” The Lord’s response? “Sell all you have and give it to the poor.” Acting in faith, Lillian Klepp and her husband Dennis sold everything and moved to South Sudan to open Harvesters Orphanage and Christian School.

Harvesters’ Yei campus consists of 90 acres of land donated by the South Sudan government in 2001. By 2002, we cared for 50 orphans and held school and church under the mango trees. Two years later, we had 100 orphans and expanded our dormitories to accommodate the growth. In 2005, a clinic, His Merciful Hand, was added to care for the basic health needs of the children. By 2006, we began to raise funds to build a church for those on our campus and for locals within the community to attend. Prior to that, we held church services in our pyatt (dining hall). In 2008, we were teaching more than 370 students at our Primary School and began talks of building a hospital to better meet the needs of vulnerable women and children in the community. In 2012, we were able to open His House of Hope Hospital, which later had to close in 2016 due to insecurity in the region. By March 2022, the hospital reopened as His House of Hope & Faith Hospital, now Harvesters Hospital.

Over the course of the past 25 years in Yei (our charter campus), we have built staff housing, dorms, a kitchen and dining Hall, a Primary School, a Church, and a Hospital, as well as other facilities within a fenced-in campus.

Today, we care for 53 orphans and provide Primary education for 552 students on our Yei campus. From our humble beginnings with just two people, we’ve since grown to serve 119 orphans and more than 1,134+ students at our 2 primary schools and 159 secondary school, and thousands more through our churches, hospital, and clinics across our 2o locations in South Sudan.

To God be the glory!