Our time with Made in the Streets is at an end. It all seems to be moving so fast! The last 3 weeks have been a blur! We started in Eastleigh working with the street kids doing day camps, playing soccer, eating and just hanging out. Then we moved from the streets to Kamulu to work at the “Farm”. The Farm is an orphanage/school/transition place for kids who are selected to leave the streets and work towards recovery and life training. There are about 50 kids, boys and girls, ages 13-18. They live in two compounds (boys and girls) with dorm parents, and go to school and do different activities everyday. They go to school to receive the same basic education as most Kenyan students, they also have Christian Bible classes, and at a certain stage in their stay they take skills training. Skills training allows students to prepare specifically for a trade to go into once they leave the Farm. They have a Tea House where students learn to cook and run a business, a Sowing shop, a Hair Salon where girls learn to do it up, and an Auto-mechanics shop. The place is amazing! They have a full staff of awesome Christian teachers, cooks, dorm-parents, etc. and they are doing an excellent job!
It was truly amazing to go from Eastleigh to Kamulu and to be struck with the reality that these kids came from the streets! The pictures you saw of the kids sniffing glue and passed out in the trash heap; these are the same kids! They came from the same things! It truly is a miraculous sign to see the change God has made in these kids! Such beauty, so many smiles, the laughter, kids singing praises, applying themselves to something worth their time – all found in these kids who were “made in the streets”. You know when poetic words in Scripture sometimes strike deep within you and are are really seen and experienced? Come to Kamulu and you will find all kinds of poetic words coming to life…. beauty from ashes, gladness instead of morning, a garment of praise instead of despair (Is 61), dry bones coming to life (Ez 37), etc. – the imagery is real! God is giving life to these children and its awesome to watch!
But sad to leave.
We’re on our way down to Watamu to attend a conference for missionaries coming from all over Africa. We will be with them until Friday and then we’ll just take a 10min ride up to a town called Malindi where we will visit some friends who are building houses for orphans, a group called Mulangaza lead by people taught many years ago by our friend Jim Beck. Should be fun… to see how he messed with their minds I mean 
Thank you for your prayers, God is present!
Blessings!
