Of Celebration and Memories

On August 1 Made in the Streets celebrates 20 Years of street ministry in Nairobi.  God has raised up many good workers during this time as well as some great young people from the streets.  We have looked at many hundreds of pictures from the Coulstons' first visit to Nairobi in 1990 with Bill and Virda Stevens of Redwood City, CA, down to the recent pictures of the 8 street guys aged 11 to 14 who came to Kamulu on May 20.  Heartaches and joys - and all worthwhile!

Here are some random memories of this year and past years.....

Darlene with Mindy Aleme in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
They will be great friends!

A typical picture in our lives...boys sleeping on the streets and
depending on glue to help them feel better...our mission!

May 2015 - we had all the young boys one day, then all the young girls,
of MITS to our home for popcorn, cake, home-made lattes and games.
The boys ate a kilo of popcorn.

Laurent invited Darlene and me to eat his "final exam" meal
at his training center. He has now been a cook at University
of Nairobi for 11 years. 

An old pic...with my best friend in Kenya - John Wambu - he
worked for me as property manager when I was Principal at
KCITI and is on our Team at MITS.  Here we are looking at
the land we had bought at Kamulu before there was a street
ministry.  We built a fence and grew cucumbers in 1993, and
there were no other buildings around!

One of my all-time favorites...this is what Darlene thinks of Made in the Streets.