Can't Do It Without You!

I often say this to our friends and to churches that love what we do with street kids in Nairobi.  We could hardly have even dreamed about street kids having a new life without knowing that our friends would love those whom we love.

So...at the end of 2013, and in 2014, we need your added help once again.  We hope in 2014 to spend about $120 per month on each street kid whom we serve well and have great impact on.  Since we plan to serve at least 350 youth with great impact -- we will have some influence on about 2,000 more -- the budget gets much too large for us to dream of doing it without you.

So...this is an appeal for you to begin helping us or increase your support for next year.  We do a great deal with the money you send to Made in the Streets, 409 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN 37027.

• Have two congregations and many Bible studies
• Run a farm where we grow some of our food
• Run a boarding program with residences for 100 former street kids
• Operate our own Literacy School for younger students aged 12 to 15 - the school primarily teaches Bible, math, English and computers, but also prepares students for the KCPE (national 8th grade exit exams) by teaching science, Swahili, social studies and more.
• Maintain a library with about 3,000 hand-picked books for students and teachers.
• Receive visitors from churches in the USA who have skills and can train our Team and maintain facilities for their visits
• Receive visitors from USA universities who inspire and work together with Team and students
• Operate an inner-city facility from which a Team goes out daily to serve street kids and invite them to programs at the Center while recruiting 13 to 14 year olds for the boarding program as well as evangelizing and befriending older street people
• Operate a skills training program where students 16 and over can learn hairdressing, catering, woodworking, tailoring, computers and auto mechanics. 
• Maintain two water wells that serve our facilities and are used for irrigation
• Maintain housing for several Team members on MITS property
• We have begun an online school called HOPE School of Leadership -(hopeschoolofleadership.org) that includes some of our Team members as students, along with young people who conduct a great children's ministry in Mathare Valley, the deep slum near our Eastleigh Center.  Orientation is going on now; regular classes begin in January 2014
• Conduct business classes (including Bible, business and computer offerings) in the afternoons at 4:30 PM (so we call it The 4.30 Classes) for all our skills students. 
• Have daily chapel with songs, prayers and talks from students and Team members.
• Have an "Animal Program" with 2 cows, 15 goats, 2 fish farms and 3 chicken houses to provide experience for the students and additional food for them. 
• Have a "Child Care" facility for small children of girls who were living on the streets and had babies and are now in our skills training programs.  
• Operate shops along the highway so our cooking and hairdressing students can gain experience.
• Maintain a playground next to the highway for use by community people.

This is not all, but you can see that we try to do a great deal, to have a whole life ministry, to be family to the kids and to one another as leaders.  And we can't do it without you.

A picture of two of the sweetest girls you could ever want
to know.  They are Lucy B and Nelly, great friends from the day
they came to Kamulu. One more year before skills training. For
these kind my heart's desire remains to bring street kids a
new life, a life in Christ, a life with hope.

CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!