We need to be praying for the people of Kenya.
The kids here are amazing.
The kids were very joyful. They loved to dance, and they could dance a lot better than we could.
Children's ministry is never referred to as something that is important.
So when I found what children were able to do in our church, God used them to help the church grow.
They are the best bridge in being able to reach the whole family.
I realized that children's ministry is not about children at all. It's a family ministry.
Passion for working with kids is the driving force, and the love that I have for Christ,
knowing for sure that if I reach this ritual, children, the boys and girls in the communities,
they are going to transform their families, their community, their country,
and even go beyond the borders of the country.
Yeah, we are very grateful because of the amazing love you guys give us and to our people.
They help our school because it is in Islam.
I like when the team comes because it helps us to provide us some books, libraries, books.
And we are so proud of it. Kenya is a great country, and all of us want peace in our country.
I want to become a great businessman. I would like to be an engineer.
Kibira is unbelievable.
You can't really explain it to someone unless you've experienced it yourself.
Mud and trash everywhere, and little kids living in it.
The smell was, I think, the worst smell I've smelled in my whole entire life.
I've never seen this level of need before. Kibira is approximately one mile by one mile.
There is need everywhere you turn.
I almost felt like I was in Disney World. It's just garbage upon garbage.
Everything you saw seemed fake. Devastating. It seemed like it shouldn't be real life.
It shouldn't be someone's actual actuality. You look at the streets and they're filled with trash,
with feces, with everything that you can't even imagine.
As we were driving down with our cameras and looking out the window and everyone staring at us,
it almost seemed like they were used to it in a way, because they've seen people come through,
but yet still they don't get real help from them.
Unexplainable.
There's an individual we met by the name of Pastor Joseph.
Pastor Joseph is one of the most dynamic individuals I've ever met.
Him and his dad moved to the slums in Kibira, and his dad ended up leaving him.
And so he was left there basically to fend for himself.
But what he does is organize a lot of the Iwana clubs in Kibira.
But then he also takes the children who are growing out of Iwana and begins mentoring them,
providing them leadership skills, leadership training, and get those students to realize
that their life in Kibira doesn't have to be their life.
We want to thank God for this team that has come from America.
They have done a very good, wonderful job. Children are so happy, so excited.
Whenever we have gone, children have been all, you know, they just don't want the team from
America to go back. They just want to stay with them. They have spent the time with the children,
giving them hope, feeling that this is a team that has come to be with us,
not only just to entertain us, not just to come and sympathize with us,
but to support us and stand with us and give us hope that we can make it in our lives.
They're living in one of the worst places in the world, and what hit me is, as Americans,
we have everything, but yet we're not happy when these kids are so happy yet they have
absolutely nothing. It is incredible the type of situations that the people there go through.
It's a dangerous place for kids, and it really made me angry. I wanted to just
grab all the girls that I could see and walk them out of there and do something about it.
It's kind of unprocessable. It's a place full of people with talent, with abilities,
and if they were to be helped, they could go so far.
Everywhere we go, there's somebody who has given up something great or sacrificed greatly
to work where they're working. When I first thought about that, I thought, well,
okay, I need to sell everything I have and come and live in the slum, but as I thought more about
that, each one of us has gifts and talents and resources, and I thought about from the Scripture
that says, to whom much is given, much is expected. There are people that are on the front lines for
Christ who need to be supplied. They need all kinds of different resources, whether it's training
or text or Bibles or money. We're in the position to deliver that. We're in a position
where we can really make a difference, much is expected of us in that position.
I do what I do because of the obedience that I have to the command of the Master. That's our
Lord Jesus Christ.
