Email from Laurent Mogambi

(Laurent was a student in the early days of Made in the Streets when we began at the campus of Kenya Christian Industrial Training Institute. He did well in our informal school, and our team enrolled him in a local elementary school in the 7th grade -- he had never been to school -- and he graduated the next year and took the National 8th Grade Exam. He then went to a cooking school in Eastleigh, got an internship at the cafeteria at Nairobi University and ended up with a job there for 5 years. He is now becoming our full-time cooking instructor at MITS. He married one of our girls -- Elizabeth Wangare -- and they have a little boy named Raymond. A side note is that all workers at the cafeteria were given jobs because they were related to University employees, with the exception of Laurent. When others would ask him who brought him, he would say "God brought me." When he would tell them he was a street kid, they disbelieved until he showed them a picture we took of him on the streets. I thought you might like to

read his latest email to us). peace, charles

Hi, Thanks for writing to and asking about how I am doing.

Everything is doing fine here and busy as usual.

About the girls at Nargis' shop - I only met with Caro; she came to our house and we talked a lot.

About Christ Jesus - I can't say anything less than to confess that He is still working in our liv

es and everything is good becouse he died for my sins and rose from dead and now He lives.

About the 20 acres - everything is going well though we don't have much time to be there the whole day, since I am still working at the University part-time. The kids are learning to cook.

About the shops and Jackton plans. I don't know much about Jack's plans. But about the shops, everything is doing fine, including the tea house.

Linda (nb: Benthall, intern from Otter Creek church) is doing fine and she came to our house and I shared a little about my life story.

About my catering students - Grace Wahu started her attachment last week at my boss' Restaurant. Brenda Adhiambo and Mercy Wanja are going for an interview this coming Tuesday at Carnivore Restaurant.

Ryan (nb: Matthews, intern from New Mexico) is already gone to USA.

And the Eastleigh program is doing good including work at the bases.

Finally I don't have much to add apart from saying that the LORD is good all the time GOD is always great for me and the MITS people. Praise His Name.