Future Needs and Dreams

We are rejoicing that our 10 new kids are fitting in so well at MITS-Kamulu. The Eastleigh Team - praise God for Jane, Moses, Evans, Augustina, Jane and Byron, along with Larry and Hollye Conway - is doing a great work in finding kids and preparing them for change. We will continue to reach out until we have our optimum number of 100 kids living at Kamulu - we will need to intake 14 more.

In order to be highly effective at that number, we need a few things. If you want to help in this, please let us know and send in your funds, earmarked for where you want to help.

1. One new boys' dorm to hold 16 boys and a supervisor. Cost: about $36,000

2. A multi-purpose building to hold up to 250 seated. Cost: about $70,000

3. New Team members for teaching and training - 3 at a cost of about $275 a month each

4. Increase in Kenyan Team salaries to reach a "livable wage" in Nairobi (minimum of $250 monthly) - at a cost of about $4,600 a month.

You could help in multiple ways.

1. Get a congregation or class or small group to do a fundraiser on behalf of a building project.

2. Commit to "sponsor" a Team member -- at $275 a month -- for a year or as long as he/she is with us.

3. Give monthly toward salary increases for the Team.

4. Help MITS get a grant for the building projects or the Team plan.

Thanks for caring. Funds are to be sent to

Made in the Streets

409 Franklin Road

Brentwood, TN 37027

Write to me at charles.coulston@made-in-the-streets.org

Street Security

Some of you have wondered about our security on the streets in the light of news about people who have died recently who were involved in security problems in the world. Larry and Hollye stayed away from the bases for a few days two weeks ago. But now they are back at work in Eastleigh. They are a great encouragement to the team there and good street ministers themselves. Here is a photo from last week - see Larry on the far right in his street hat -- with visitors from Aggies for Christ of Texas A&M University at a baptism at the Eastleigh Center.

Street Ministry at the Bases

Our Team at Eastleigh continues to go out daily to the bases - to teach Bible, to talk and make friends, to see what new kids have come to the streets, to do first aid, to help solve problems. Here is one of our Team members at Mutindwa Base.

Our whole Team who go to the streets at Eastleigh share the strength of "connectedness." That means they feel a moral need to be connected to people and they see the connections between people and events and can use those connections to be a blessing to people.

We have been through a StrengthsFinder assessment with Kelly Davidson, director of Aggies for Christ at Texas A&M University while some of the AFC students have led a camp for all our kids at Kamulu. What a great week for us all. It was exciting to see the strengths of other Team members in this assessment (which is from a business point of view). The assessment gives us the top 5 strengths -- out of 31 taking the assessment, 20 shared "Responsibility" as a top strength and 19 shared "Learner." That is not a great surprise considering we are working with street kids.

We are already beginning to make some changes in the way we do things as a result of the Strengths assessment. We feel blessed to have had this workshop.

Serving the Lord Jesus

Eric Wairobi and James Omuga were in Eastleigh last week with some of our Team. They have decided to follow Jesus and to give their lives to him. So, after study, they were baptized at the Eastleigh Center by one of our visitors from Aggies for Christ. They had prayer before the baptism, and others were there with them. There is Larry Conway with his "street hat." And Mauryn Mbuvi is there with her youngest son Jeremy. Mauryn is the wife of our administrator and manager of a very successful World Bible School program that includes orphanages and feeding stations. Eric and James were very happy with their decision. This is one of our primary goals at MITS, to help our kids to know God and to want to obey him.

The AFC Team led a camp for 10 kids from the streets one week -- all of whom have now moved to Kamulu. We are seeking sponsors for these 10. If you are interested, write Tim Lewis at timannlewis@gmail.com and cc: the email to me.

The next week the AFC group led a camp for the kids living at Kamulu while Kelly Davidson led a Team development seminar for our MITS Team. It was a great and lively seminar, with emphasis given to the strengths of each Team member and our inter-relationships. We all felt really good, and we believe it will help guide our work together.