Jackton and Irene at Singing Oaks

Tonight the Coulstons and Jackton Omondi and Irene Akinyi met with a group at the Singing Oaks Church in Denton, Texas. Jackton and Irene are already becoming famous for their attire - as street kids. Watching Jackton come in the room with a gunny sack on his back, a glue bottle in his mouth, his ragged and dirty clothing and that vacant smile on his face is uncanny - it's like being on the streets in Eastleigh-Nairobi. He waves his "best friend" (the glue bottle) around and laughs, then asks for a handout, pockets someone's camera, then lets us know what it is like to be on the streets.

And Irene makes us feel the shame and pain of being a girl on the streets with a little baby, as she tells us how she survives and what brought her to this point in her life. The clothes she has on and the look on her face depicts exactly what the girls are like on the streets.

The group asked great questions, and Jackton and Irene answered with ease and knowledge. Then we had cake decorated with Kenyan symbols, grapes and strawberries and blueberries. A very nice evening, and the Coulstons are proud of the Team that does street ministry so well. And they were happy for Jackton and Irene to meet some of their relatives!