Inspection at MITS

The Children's Department of the Kenyan government must approve the operations of homes for children. They are concerned with kids under 15, and about half our street kids living at Kamulu fit there.
Joel Njue, our Student Affairs officer, has dealt with the CD, compiled all
our files and led the way in preparing our property and Team.
When inspection day finally arrived, the suggestion they had for us was "it would be good to put up some more child friendly posters." great that the facilities, care of the kids, menu, learning experience, records and team were all acceptable!
We are grateful for Joel and his dedicated work.

God Blesses Street Ministry

Made in the Streets always has a high level of activity and excitement. ****a parent-teen group from Malibu Church of Christ spent two weeks at Kamulu and Eastleigh. the MITS Team and kids were overjoyed with this group and their obvious joy at being with MITS. They led sports camps, spiritual growth times, visited on the streets of Eastleigh and down in Mathare Valley. They returned to Malibu excited about going again!! ****Steve and Magda Sherman from Otter Creek Church of Christ are there now. They have visited the Mountain View property, spent time with street kids, and led leadership growth workshops with the Team. The Team gives high praise for them. ****some people tore through the roof of our computer training facility and made off with 6 laptop computers. We are sad about that, but they did not take everything. We will replace and continue. Anyone replacing your laptop could consider letting us take it to MITS as people make trips to Nairobi. ****some friends are raising funds with an un-pizza party so our street kids can have pizza. We will make it a training experience so our catering students can practice making pizzas. ****another friend of MITS is sending $30,000 soon so we can make our girls' residence areas less crowded with an added building. The girls will be really excited about that. It will be only two to a room!! ****our girls at Kamulu have finally gotten excited about sports. Jackton organized a girls' soccer team. They lost the first few matches but have started winning. I talked to Jackton a couple days ago, and the girls were in a tournament. They had just won a game and were excited. God works for good in everything, blessing our lives and ministry. View my personal blog at "Coulston of the Streets"

June is a Good Month

So much has happened at Made in the Streets since our last report on May 22.  The Coulstons' family came to visit at the end of May.  What a great help they were.  Their daughter, along with another visitor, led a great seminar on "mediation."  There were applications both to mediation on the streets when conflicts arise with and among street youth and to our Team itself.  The reality is that we are not without conflict and disagreement and hurt feelings, and these seminars were very helpful in providing avenues to solve such problems.   And the grandchildren were helpful too - they read to and played with the babies of street girls, they shared songs and crafts and Bible stories with the students at MITS.  They also had a good time with our animals - chickens and goats and cows and bunnies -- along with chameleons.  And they got a chance to pluck bananas off a stalk, pick green beans and okra and tomatoes and cabbage.

We went to the Kenyan Coast near Malindi with the MITS Team -- thanks to those who provided extra funds for this -- where they enjoyed a holiday as a reward and were part of a seminar to strengthen the Team.  Aggies for Christ (from Texas A&M University) and the MITS Tour Group (mostly from Pepperdine University) stayed with our 82 students while the Team was on the trip, and the students behaved wonderfully for them!  More Soon......

Aggies for Christ with MITS students!