Touch A Life
For His Kingdom.

David and Vicky

Founders

David and Vicky have been serving as Christian mentors to youth across various platforms and organizations since 2015. Over the years, they have also facilitated several feeding programs and initiatives for street families in Nairobi’s Central Business District. Their passion lies in reaching unbelievers with the gospel and helping young people become firmly rooted in Christ.

As directors and co-laborers in ministry, David and Vicky play an active role in coordinating and facilitating the organization’s programs and overseeing daily activities at Touch A Life For His Kingdom. Their leadership is hands-on, deeply relational, and guided by their commitment to share Christ’s love in both word and action.

David and Vicky are deeply committed to seeing the gospel lived out in practical ways—feeding the hungry, mentoring the next generation, and offering hope to the broken. Their heartbeat is to see transformation in Kawangware as people encounter Christ’s love, embrace His mindset, and are empowered to live out their God-given purpose.

Currently, they are pursuing higher education—David in Transformational Church Leadership and Vicky in Counselling Psychology—equipping themselves to serve with excellence and impact. Their greatest desire is that God would use them in every capacity to demonstrate love and compassion to the people of Kawangware.

Their prayer is that through different community projects, the people of Kawangware will adopt the mindset of Christ, experience holistic transformation, and be empowered to accomplish their God-given purpose.

Dr. Hal Burchel

Founders

Hal is a retired physician from the USA. He and his first wife, Ruthan, first came to Africa in 1968. Thereafter they spent many years in mission hospitals in Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania, and were in Somalia for five weeks during the US occupation. They have four children, ten grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Hal retired from medicine in2017, and cared for his wife, whose health was declining. Ruthan went to heaven in June 2021, and, in the midst of his grieving, three months after her death, at the age of eighty-one, God called him back to Africa. One year after Ruthan’s passing, God miraculously brought Mary Ellen, a girl he’d dated fifty-eight years ago, back into his life. They fell in love and married in December 2022. She now is very involved in the ministry and a great support to him.

Hal says his vocation in medicine, but his calling is “soul winning”. He admits he was forty years old before he led his first convert to Jesus. Since then, he has prayed with over 9000 people, mostly Africans, to receive the Lord as Savior. It is the passion of his life. Mary Ellen and he are the US directors of Touch A Life for His Kingdom, and although they come to Africa only twice a year, they stay in close contact with David and Vicky by phone calls two to three times a week and frequent emails. They are responsible or raising most of the funds needed to support the ministry and keeping in contact with partners in the States. 

Hal’s passion for evangelism and David and Vicky’s passion for discipleship dovetail beautifully and have resulted in an ever-expanding growth of new converts and intentional discipleship, which is producing mature Christians, who are then sharing the gospel with others. We are therefore at the point of multiplication, not simple addition. God is indeed” adding to the church daily those who are being saved. “We remain his hands to reach down to the underprivileged and the unsaved in Kawangware slum, those who have no hope, and to reach up to God, and through the cross of Christ bring the hopeless and the hope-giver together. We see the miracle of the new birth change these people dramatically, giving them hope and self-esteem, at the same time raising them out of poverty and a victim mentality.