Harvesters for Christ Ministry

Safiya Medical Centre

THE LEGACY (MEDICAL MISSION WORK) OF MISS. P. C. LEWSEY (SAFIYA) LIVES ON

Miss. P. C. Lewsey (popularly known as SAFIYA or MAMA) was a staff with office of the British Prime Minister before she decided to come to Africa to undertake a Missionary assignment in 1926. Having chosen the African Continent as her mission field she selected and came to Nigeria.

In Nigeria, her first destination was Minna, where she learned Hausa Language for six (6) months as part of her preparation to make her mission a success. She left Minna to Paiko between 1934 - 1935 and then to Gwagwada in present Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State between 1935 - 1942, were she opened her mission field. From there she moved to a place now called “Unguwan Mission” in Kaduna South Local Government Area. Thereon, she left the Unguwan Mission to the present day Artillery Barracks situated in Kakuri, Kaduna where she started an orphanage. Besides that, a Leprosy settlement was commissioned on the grounds where the Albarka Fellowship Baptist Church and Harvesters for Christ Ministry Headquarters are now situated. She assisted all the communities around her medically throughout her stay in Nigeria. it was to her credit as a missionary that the now Kawo Market, Buruku Town, Kurmin Gwari became settlements in that leprous patients came to these sites to receive treatment and varied kind of assistance from her on assigned days. the Kasuwan Magani town also come to be as a result of the medical mission work she rendered to the community and is now a big town in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Mararaban Rido (popularly known as KASUWAN SAFIYA) also derives from her adopted name given to her by the Hausas in Nigeria at their Friday market days where she treated lepers.

She finally left for her country in 1963, but later come back for a visit in 1980 when the clinic in Kakau was commissioned and left in 1981.

she passed on to glory on the 11th March 1995.

Mama safiya was a woman of faith, devout and zealous for God.

she was a woman of love, love for God and the people she served. where love is sacrificial giving, compassion and empathy flow unhindered by self - centeredness. she gave her life, her strength, pleasure, comfort and possessions.

Though unmarried all her life, she raised many godly children e.g. our (G. O.) Pastor David John Kanda, Mrs. N. Dapub, Baba Bolanta, Paul and Tim Hope (the twins whom she adopted as little children) to mention but the few we know. These have been very supportive to the medical mission work due to her positive influence on their lives.

Mama Safiya though resting with her master speaks on and is one of the “ cloud of witnesses” observing how you and I are running our own courses.

May we catch the fire that so consumed mama that we also may leave behind a legacy worth emulating and continuing!

we of the medical missions feel humbled by mama’s life and see our selves as not yet having begun. we covet your prayers very much that we may walk in her foot prints.

“LIFE ISN’T WORTH LIVING UNLESS LIVED FOR OTHER PEOPLE” Mother Theresa.

Medical Mission’s Dept

HFCM