Bread for the Streets

Every other Friday the MITS Team from Kamulu goes to Eastleigh to work on the streets for the day. It is a great experience - the Team stays in touch with our key work, and kids on the streets know that MITS cares about them, and that there is a loving God who knows them.

Our catering school does practical cooking each week, and the day before the Friday visit, they bake bread. The rolls smell wonderful, and they are large and tasty.

Here is Florence Moraa, one of our older students, with the bread for this week. How exciting, to bring such pleasure to the kids on the streets. It's a way for our kids to "pay back." And it creates good will.

May you find your own way to create good will for Jesus today.

BASE REPORT by Mbuvi

The MITS team went out to several bases (a base is a place where street kids gather at night and sleep) telling of God's great love for street youth and his desire that they will one day stay away from sin and follow him.

We know this is a daily struggle, and they are under attack from Satan, but a struggle we will not and should not give up on.

Evans Ouma has become a darling for many and has good stories to encourage them. We are blessed to have such a team visiting bases with Jesus' love everyday. Please keep praying for strength for all.
This was at "Deliverance Base."

GREAT GOOD NEWS

We are very happy at Made in the Streets. Charles Kimani, who is pictured here as he learns in the wood-working shop, recently flew to Malindi on the Kenyan Coast for surgery. The surgery clinic was organized by BandS Ministries, under the leadership of Dr. John Bailey. Dr. Jerry Smith performed the surgery on a mass under the shoulder that had been revealed in an X-ray after Charles began to suffer pain. Apparently the mass had been there since childhood, but has grown larger lately. The surgeon found the mass to be inoperable, as the mass was interconnected to the scapula, the blood vessels and the muscles. It was also obvious to the doctors that the mass was cancerous, so they took a sample to be analyzed in a lab in Nairobi, since good facilities were not available in Malindi. When Charles returned, we took the sample to the Shah Lab, where we have undergone tests before. Also John Wambu's daughter Mary flew to Malindi with Charles and had surgery, so we took a sample of her tissue in to the lab as well.

When we received the news from the doctors, and before Charles returned, we shared the news with the street kids and the MITS Team, and we all began to pray. We asked for God's help, since this was something the doctors could not do. And we asked for healing. The street kids pray simply and directly and are not afraid to ask God for anything.

Today we received the pathology report -- AND THERE IS NO CANCER - NOW! The diagnosis is angiolipoma with adipose tissue. You can look up lipoma and angiolipoma in Wikipedia - lipomas are generally painless, but angiolipoma are usually quite painful, because of the vascular structure and the interconnectedness.

So Charles will have to live with pain, unless God is willing to take that away too. The kids will be asking for that. But already we are very grateful. And Mary was also free of cancer and should have no residual problems other than not being able to bear children.

Thanks for praying, and for loving our kids. I have always told the kids that I believe God hears the prayers of street kids.