AFRICA TRIP, Day 11

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

KIBERA

We praise God today for:

• The first ever AWANA club in Kibera was started today (AWANA in the states supported our day with an over $7,000 donation to buy games, medical supplies, food for the children, etc).
• Being able to see and treat over 400 patients in our clinic, set up at a school in Kibera today.
• Being able to feed 3 pieces of bread and safe water to drink to over 200 hungry and thirsty children.
• The fact that the same Muslims who adamantly opposed the building of the CTK-sponsored school actually brought there children there today, to play AWANA games and be treated at our clinic. Some of them even allowed us to pray with them.
• The prayer ministry that happened, as most of the patients we treated in clinic also received prayer for healing.
• Being able to be used by God to bring a glimmer of hope in Jesus’ Name to a pocket of Kibera.
• For the Omolos, and their heart for the Kibera community. They go to the slums on a daily basis to minister to the oppressed there. Reaching children for Christ is their vision, as the children are the future and hope.
• Hot showers and hot meals, two simple, yet profound, blessings to me today. I normally take those things for granted…but not today.

Lifting up:

• As were were only able to touch a fraction of the people in Kibera with God’s love, please pray with me for the 1.5+ million souls residing there. Pray that Christ’s mercy would pour over the hungry, thirsty, weak, broken, sick, orphaned, HIV positive, AIDS inflicted, sad, widowed, hurting, poor, mentally ill, desperate, shoeless, showerless, hopeless, traumatized, oppressed, unloved, raped, dying, vulnerable, scarred, hardened, tattered, lost, brokenhearted, abused, shunned, and trapped people living in those slums. Pray for hope, pray for healing, and pray for them to experience God’s boundless love today.
  MUCH LOVE to you (and many more stories upon my return)!
  
• The Omolo family. Tears were streaming down our faces as they shared their heart for Kibera and the ministry God has given them there. When we were saying our goodbyes, they blessed us with kind words and gifts. It was so touching. I pray that I will come back here someday.

Quahari (goodbye) for now, and ASANTE SANA (thank you very much) for all of your support. We couldn’t do this without you! Mungu aku bariki! God bless you!