Most of our students live in an environment we can only imagine. In Mathare, shantys line up from road to horizon, where roughly 600,000 people live in just 3.5 square miles. They make their homes in small shacks built with tin and scrap wood, or low income highrise apartment buildings. The streets are filled with sewage and trash.
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The first half of the year crawled by, and it’s crazy to think we’re already in June! We’re so thankful for your prayers and financial support these past five months – you blessed us during a time when we worried we wouldn’t have enough to provide for our students, their families, and to continue to employ our Kenya staff full-time.
Read More“Who are you?” I ask my daughter Amani (6) and my son Tele (3) each morning when they wake up, and again right before bed. “A child of God, loved and cherished!”, they respond. “That’s right, and never forget that,” I tell them.
Read MoreMany of you may have heard the line, “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s comin’.” Tony Campolo, a Christian speaker and sociologist, has famously shared the story through the years of a “preach off” he had at his church in Philadelphia with other pastors (though he said none of them officially called it a “preach off”).
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