OUR YOUNG ONES

As of the beginning of October, we have 11 girls who are 14 years and under.  They are great girls, and we love them.  How joyful it is that they have been brought off the streets and alleyways of Nairobi into a new life!

Recently a friend of MITS sent some funds so these girls could have $10 each to spend on a shopping trip.  They were so thrilled when we told them, and two days later they went on a shopping trip and got the money in shillings and bought things they needed.  One of the girls' supervisors told me that these girls own much less than our other girls at MITS, so this was a great blessing.  

Thanks to all those who help us in so many ways to bring joy and hope to these young people.  

And maybe my next blog will be the 10 new boys who came to their first chapel TODAY!!! God has blessed us with an opportunity to bring new life to them.  Please pray for us and them!! 

A Great Week at MITS-Kamulu

The students have had a little break lately.  Last Friday the Team at Kamulu went in to Eastleigh to spend a day serving on the streets with the Eastleigh Team.  So the schedule at Kamulu was a relaxed day with sports, crafts, games and a movie.  Then after the weekend it was "Heroes Day" in Kenya, so once again the day was casual.

Then on Wednesday and Thursday we had a great presentation from Greg Clodfelter, who lives in Nyeri (north of Nairobi) with his wife Sonia and daughter Laurie Ann.  Greg's program is called "Right Choices," and it is about relationships, God's will, sex, dating and PLANNING YOUR LIFE WITH RIGHT CHOICES.  His presentation was fun, pointed and frank, and our Team and students were very happy.  In a chapel talk this morning, one of the students referred to it.  And the students have been talking to their residence supervisors about it, as in "I grew up thinking that 'Come, we stay' is okay, but he is saying that God's will is different.  We can do that."

As Francis says at the end of every Team meeting, "Have a blessed day."

I'M BAAAAACK!!

Hard to believe I stayed away so long.  Great things have happened at Made in the Streets.  I have just enjoyed them instead of reporting!!

Biggest thing -- we are exiting 25 students in 2014 -- several have jobs now and others are either hunting or have internships.  They are both scared and excited, and some do better than others.  But they are all off the streets and will stay that way.

And next biggest....we have already taken in 26 new students from the streets this year.  Some came in never having gone to school; others have been up to the second grade.  We have six 12-year-olds now; they will be with us for at least 6 years, so we can have great impact on their lives.  Five of them are girls, and we are so glad to have them off the streets.

Zera Atieno is 12, off the streets, and happy!

This year we kicked off a new and special program called Into the World.  Jackton and Millie Omondi have responsibility to help our graduates become evangelists by encouraging and training them to hold Bible studies in their new apartments.  We had a meeting and meal at the Marble Arch Hotel in Nairobi, and 50 of our graduates came.  We are very hopeful that several will have ongoing groups by the end of the year.  Jackton and Millie are doing a Bible study themselves as a model of evangelism.  Darlene and i took the 7 Made in the Streets guards out for dinner and took Jackton and Millie along.  After dinner, Jackton invited the guards to be in a Bible study on Wednesday afternoons, and they all agreed.  

Dinner with the guards

We remain thrilled to be part of the life of Made in the Streets.  God has called us all to help the kids who have nothing and who face a hopeless future.  There is HOPE when the church responds to God's call.  Thanks for checking in!!