Kisumu Slums
Today was much different. Much harder emotionally than yesterday. We went to the slums of Nairobi (Nigh-ro’-bee) Road and Nyalenda (knee-uh-len’da).
Yesterday the countryside was so beautiful. Today the slums of Kisumu, to me, were among the worst possible conditions to expect people to live. Yet in this primitive, over-crowded environment people were trying to live the best life they possibly could.
Women were doing their best to wash laundry in buckets and dry the clothes on makeshift clothes lines. Little children were laughing and playing games, older children were much more serious. Sometimes helping or caring for family members, other times hanging out in groups doing mostly nothing. Curiously all were dressed well. Laundry and cooking over an open fire.
Praying for strength, wisdom and protection for your team. Lifting all those you have ministered to the throne of God, may His love and healing manifest daily through your work.
Keep bringing the light of Jesus into the darkness….the ministry you are blessed with is very hard but you are bringing truth and hope to the lost.
God bless you all for doing His work – praying fo you all and those you are serving! Praying especially for you Ed and your work
Thank you for sharing the real lives of the needy and desperate to whom you are sharing medications, food, multivitamins, the spiritual food of the Word, and the love of Christ! I pray for your emotional/spiritual/physical/mental strength as you continue to visit the poorest of the poor! Thank you for being available and willing to be Jesus with skin on in their time of trouble and hardships. Your compassionate hearts inspire me to pray more earnestly for the team and my lost brothers and sisters there in Kenya.