A month filled with lots of Activities!

Well this month went so fast, its like I just took a breath and the month is all gone. From the base visits in Eastleigh on Mondays, it was amazing to see the reception that we received in Mlango Kubwa base whereby they all welcomed us with open arms and listened to us. Its impressive to see how Kennedy has really grown to be a person who really encourages the guys in the streets that they too can change and have a better life like the one he is having. We were also happy to notice that most of the Lilliput base members were not high on glue when we went there, they listened to us as we encouraged them to use their talents and gifts that God has given them to the glory of God and also better their life. They also got to learn some Chinese from Andrew who had visited with us on the streets.
We were sad though to learn that Grace Muthoni who was once a student at MITS and now is married, lost her sister the previous week from illness. They are still making the funeral arrangements.On another note, our students got a chance to get new shoes and they enjoyed going to Gikomba together with the teachers to get their shoes. They all got two pairs of shoes each. Some of the shared that it was hard for them to bargain to get the best prices.
I also enjoyed seeing the Christ-warriors group which includes Kenneth Wambugu, Mercy Wanja, Joseph Wambua and Moses Kungu shoot their first music video at the boys center. They have been planning the video for a long time and the Good News Productions International didn't disappoint and did a good job working with the group. With some of the boys supporting the group as dances, its clear that we have lots of talented students from dancing, singing, acrobatic show, juggling, drama, skits, teaching, games and so much more and this month during the concert and the camp we had lots of display of all that. God is truly a wonderful God who blesses us with so much more than we realize!

by Joel

Farm harvests

Ben this month has had a good harvest. He and his team have worked extra hard to have more produce and put both the team and students to hard work on the farm at MITS. Well, the hard work has reaped off and we no have plenty of carrots, sweet potatoes, cabbages and beans.
Ben is also having a project that he has just initiated of building a fish pond. He has already dug it out and all that remains is to bring in the fish. The orchard is doing great, the fruits tress are growing and a lot is being done by the students and staff to make sure that they are weed-free.
Bug spray is also being used to keep the trees healthy.
Ben and his team have scheduled classes with the literacy students to try and teach, instruct the students on good farming techniques;use of right tools for different job in the farm.

In other reports, a Day Spa was held on Monday, for the street mother at Eastleigh. Guess whose idea this was...Susan, our student who has attended hairdressing school and is now a professional hairdresser. She decided to express her talents and expertise to do manicure and pedicure. Some women from the streets also had their hair done. She asked the skills teachers who train the students on hairdressing, Terry and Phylis for assistance. Also the student in that skill were involved in the Monday exercise. (pics later)

REVEAL Concert!

The long awaited, anticipated, planned for concert finally happened on Saturday the 20th. The day started with blessing of rain, the warm sunshine followed.
(I guess the rain was to test our faith). We had the chance of networking with an organization called teen challenge, which is a rehabilitation for drug abusers. We strongly believe it was God's intention that this two ministries work together towards the cause of trying to change our kids' lives. We selected two of our girl to be going for practices with the choir at Teen Challenge.
At the concert our kids did various performances and participated in competition with the guest who were Teen Challenge and the part of the community that attended the occasion. The praise and worship time was AWESOME! The performances from different rap, dancing groups from our kids were nice and fitting to the occasion. We even have some students who can do do acrobats!
The concert started on a high note and ended on a the same note. The main aim was to show our kids that God can be served in all capacity.
Thanks to an all time friends of MITS, Katera and Andrew for making this possible to our kids. They have really learnt a great deal and have really matured in spirit and wisdom through the camp week and concert. May you guys be blessed tremendously!

Camp Reveal

The whole of last week, MITS was holding a camp. Each day of the week had a letter that a lesson was taught from by the team.



Monday - Reaching for God through prayer, Scripture and how God reaches out to us as Christians.

Tuesday - Embracing God's answers to prayer, His message in Scripture (accepting , owning what you read) and embracing hardships.

Wednesday - Valuing scripture (how to use them), our christian family and How God values you.

Thursday - Ending malnourishment of spirit, self destruction, the excuses.

Friday - Answering - the call He places on your life, identifying and using your talent for Him, accepting His gift of salvation.

Saturday - Lighting---being the light and lighting the way for others.

Each day had an activity or game that implemented the day's teaching. On Wednesday we held a bonfire in the evening at the boys place, we sang and danced for God around the fire. Thursday T-shirts were made and handed out to all students and team. On Friday a setup of stations with candles and prayer items was put up in rooms, in one of the room a wooden cross was constructed to resemble the forgiveness of sin and the students and team were asked to write what keeps them from doing God's work to perfection, then nail it on the cross.

Concert practises

We have been trying to get a reputable and good institution to liaison with in the up coming concert. Katera and Andrew who are visiting us from China are organizing the whole event, including the camp that will last a whole week. So after consulting and visiting different places all over Nairobi, this includes churches, we landed a million dollar deal with an institution called Teen Challenge. This is a rehab center located on the far eastern part of Nairobi that deals with drug addicts, mostly alcoholics. It is a men based rehab that takes a whole year. The program entails different activities, Bible lessons, leadership programs are also taught. Amongst these activities is singing in a choir.
The choir is so awesome that we decided to include two of our girls, Mercy Wanja and Florence Moraa, to be taught how to sing (the right and professional way). They have been learning together with the choir of men, songs that will be sang at the concert. Challenging as it has been for them, they have come to learn lots to do with voice composure and singing rules.
The concert is set for February 20th. Teen Challenge has offered to perform some of their songs with the two girls and share testimonies at the event. They are not so different from our own kids, in that ours are also struggling with their past way of life and want to leave the old and start a new life full of hope and vigor.
They will help us with their musical instruments to make the concert complete with good worship songs and praise songs. The idea is to have all our teens drawn closer to God through this medium of worship.

Priscah Kerubo

We have a new girl student who joined us on Saturday. Priscah has both parents; the dad works as a night guard at a local company on the western part of Nairobi, her mom work as a casual worker and does odd jobs at a place called Kangemi. She has an older brother who is in high school, a brother who is grade 3 and a younger sibling who is a nursery school.
She is 14yrs old though a bit shy, she has soul winning smile that brings her innocence out. She is a special child in that she has a case of being defiled twice in her teen life. She has been on the streets and lived on Liliput Base for a while, then after sometime ran away to Mlango Kubwa base. Later on she got out of the base life and went home to Kangemi where her parents are residing; then eventually came back to Mlango Kubwa base. We are so happy to have her here with us, we highly hope that MITS will be a haven for her to find hope, trust and gain more confidence to face the tomorrow despite what has happened in her past life.
Priscah loves watching action pack movies, and she says she has always had passion to be a hairdresser, with Gods' help this will come true as she has joined a family that has abundant love and is always preparing its children for life's struggles by instilling a life skill.
As she came in the girls welcomed her, and everyone wanted to tell her all stories of MITS all at once, the fun trips like shopping or educational trips, classes, teachers, work at the farm, food, birthday parties. I overheard Florence Aoko, tell Prisca of a shosho (Darlene) who loves reading stories to them especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tales, and Peter Pan.
We welcome her to our big family and look forward to her growth in knowing Christ.