About Us

HIS Nets History

HIS Nets is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization founded in March of 2004, which began working in 2005. HIS Nets found its genesis in the missionary experiences of the Thomas family in Africa. While serving there, one of their daughters had a near-death experience with malaria. Since that time the Thomas family has had a desire to make a difference in the fight against this deadly disease of malaria. Since that time His Nets has distributed nearly 76,000 nets and saved over 150,000 lives!

A board of directors meets regularly to assure that all support and gifts to HIS Nets are used for their intended purpose.
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What We Do

As a non-profit, community-based, non-governmental organization (NGO) HIS Nets is developing several unique approaches to delivery of international public health preventive services through the active participation of members of local communities. The community focus for HIS Nets involves independent, local organizations – including churches - whose members are encouraged to demonstrate their belief in humanitarian assistance by supporting HIS Nets programs aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality of malaria in targeted, high risk areas of sub-Saharan Africa.

By relying, primarily, on donor contributions and maximizing voluntary assistance in both the US and targeted African communities, economy of scale is achieved to provide high quality, “insecticidal bed nets” (ITNs) to targeted families in greatest need from both public health and economic perspectives. [The bed nets distributed by His Nets are actually “Long-lasting, insecticidal bed nets” (LLINs) of the highest quality]. In most cases, these nets can be delivered in-country, on-site, for approximately $6.00 per net.

All LLINs are distributed without cost to the receiving families, with priority distribution to pregnant women and families with children under five years of age. Distribution of LLINs is performed through the network of existing in-country health services, including governmental health departments, hospitals, clinics and in-country His Nets volunteer partner organizations.

We have discovered that in-country partner organizations are providing the essential key to our net distribution projects. Because of our previous contacts and experiences in African countries, most of the in-country partnering organizations with whom we have collaborated, to date, have been established Baptist religious conventions and associations. One such organization is the All Africa Baptist Fellowship (AABF) whose member churches are located in all African countries. The AABF, in turn, is a member of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), as are many Baptist churches in the U.S. Because many of the African national Baptist organizations sponsor on-going preventive health clinics and community medical services, we have discovered a readily available source of talent and services at the local level. The common link of mutual membership in the BWA between all involved organizations ensures trust and common humanitarian interests.

As an example, in October of 2008, a five-member Team from First Baptist Church in Garland, TX, partnered with His Nets and an Angolan national Baptist association to travel to Angola to provide 2,000 nets to an extremely needy neighborhood in Luanda, Angola. The Garland church and His Nets provided the nets, with His Nets providing technical advice and net delivery on-site. The Angolan Baptists provided a team of public health “trainers” to accompany the Garland team and provide instruction of net installation and use. A clinic managed by the Angolan Baptists was also used as a distribution station. Interpretation (English-Portuguese) was provided by the Garland Team leader (multilingual) and a public health nurse-educator sponsored by the British Missionary Association (BMA) stationed in Luanda. The initial contact between His Nets and the Angolan Baptist association was made via the AABF-BWA. Hence, five organizations were participating partners in this particular net distribution in Angola, with each partner organization providing what was necessary to succeed.

Practically all other His Nets distribution projects to date have experienced similar partnering connections.

Although His Nets has been in existence as an organization for only 4 years, we have distributed nearly 30,000 LLINs in to protect 100,000 individuals in five African countries and in India. 

What YOU can do to help us

As an individual or small group (e.g., church group)

By contacting His Nets [see “Contact us”], and telling us about your interest in helping us to distribute mosquito nets to the most needy people at high risk of malaria in the world, we can provide you with information concerning up-coming His Nets distribution projects scheduled for the summer and fall of 2008 and the spring and summer of 2009. You can then select individual projects – including villages or clinics – where the net distributions are planned and decide which locations and how many nets that you (or, your family, church group etc.) would like to provide.

If, and when, you are interested in becoming involved and want to set a net “goal” or actually purchase nets for a designated target population, His Nets will “lock in” your commitment and you will be considered a supporting member of the His Nets Team performing that particular distribution project. You will be kept informed via project updates and progress reports – including photos of the families receiving the nets that you – or, your group, provided. In addition, because the exact ground locations of all nets distributed by His Nets Teams are documented according to actual GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites, you can actually “see” the village, clinic site, etc. where your nets were actually distributed via the (free) Google Earth internet program!


As an organization

What has been provided above for individuals and small groups can be multiplied for individual organizations – particularly, churches.

HIS Nets does not consider itself to be a, solely, “faith-based” organization in the common use of that term, because of our desire to involve U.S. and world communities at large in our net distribution programs. We have and will continue to “partner” with any community-based organization or religious denomination that wants to be of assistance in our “passion” to prevent malaria.

An organization could decide to sponsor the distribution of nets to a whole village or sponsor an entire His Nets project of a particular country. The sponsoring organization could either provide all the nets for the project, provide the travel costs of the His Nets distribution team or both – OR, the organization could actually participate in the project by accompanying the His Nets team on the net distribution project. His Nets team members from previous net distribution projects are being trained to lead other organizations on some of the projects.

The “bottom line” for participating organizations is that, regardless of the degree of participation, His Nets will provide the technical advice, assistance, logistics etc. up to and including project leadership for the complete net distribution project.

If your organization (e.g., church) is interested in exploring such possibilities, simply contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .