Presenting and Praising

  At Made in the Streets we are always looking for a teaching opportunity.  There is so much we want our kids from the streets to learn so they can know how to have good relationships, how to hold a job, how to serve God in the world and all the things they need to know to feel confident and strong.  And we want our kids to have the "tools of the trade" so they have what they need to a job when they get one.  So we were very happy when Anastacia, our best student in the government's 8th Grade Exit Exams, was admitted to a journalism course at Universal College in Nairobi.  It gave us an opportunity to impress on all the kids what it takes for them to succeed and what we want to do for each one of them as they prepare to leave us.

  Darren Wilson of the South MacArthur Church of Christ in Irving, Texas, provided a good digital camera, and he set up a laptop that came from Healing Hands in Nashville, Tennessee.  We brought it over when we came, and we planned a time to make a presentation.

  On Sunday afternoons our students have practical Bible classes, which follow the text of Scripture and also have practice principles for the students to do during the week.  These days we have the boys and girls separate.  Anastacia was at Kamulu for the weekend, so we gathered all the students together, and Charles spent time talking to them about all the things that we at MITS want for the kids.  He talked about what they will need to do to make it reality.  Then he told them how much we love them and how much we want them to have what they need to work at a job.  

  He called Anastacia to the front and talked about what she needs when she becomes a journalist, and that she needs some things now while in school.  Then he presented the gifts from South MacArthur Church, Healing Hands and Darren Wilson.  He then praised Anastacia for what she has done to prepare herself for the future.  All the kids were very happy with her for the gift, and now more of them are looking forward to the time when they will get what they need and be ready to face the world.