Growing Family

Made in the Streets is a growing family.  Not only do we have new kids coming from the streets to live with us, but we have Team members who get married and have children.  In the early years of MITS, it was Darlene and me with 9 young men and 1 young lady - all teenagers at the time.  Now we have 34 working full-time at MITS and 14 of them are married.  And we have children - Raymond and Trinity, Kelsey, Kehl, Jonathan, Jeremy, Susie, Mark and many others.

Now we have a new member.  Joel and Tira Njue had a baby this week.  A few weeks ago Joel drove someone to the same hospital they used when she was in labor, so they knew exactly how many minutes it would take.  There was no great rush, though, because the doctor sent everyone home at about 10 PM thinking it would be morning.  They did keep Tira there, and Joel had to go back, and Naledi was born at 11:15 PM, Thursday, November 29.  Lovely little girl!  Tira was home two days later and able to come our Christmas reception for the Team today (Sunday).

We fed the Team popcorn, peanuts, "bitings" of broiled meat, carrot sticks, soda, coffee, tea, cupcakes, cookies and candy.  Darlene made lots of icing and they all made a "Christmas Cookie House," a long-standing tradition at MITS.  It even predates MITS by 3 years.

Here is the first picture of Tira and Naledi, which Darlene took on her first visit to "hold the baby."