The Mutheu Mutinda Jackson’s Family Story
As told in the Dec 2010 Newsletter
(Watch for the updated SUCCESS STORY in the Child Arise Feb/Mar 2013 Newsletter & Blog Post in a few weeks.)
In 1999, Ruth Mutinda died after giving birth under circumstances that most in the U.S can’t even imagine. The infant girl, Masenya, partially born and partially inside her mother for well over 24 hours, was born severely handicapped. She can’t talk, dress, clean or feed herself.
When Ruth could not deliver the
baby on her own at home, she was carried on a board, through the area trying to
find someone who had a car to take her to the hospital which was in a distant
city.
Ruth’s husband, Jackson Mutinda, a pastor in Kiinyuni, Kenya, thought it best that he not remarry so that he could be fully committed to raising their children.
Then in 2007, when Elizabeth and her husband, Pastor Onesimus Mativo, were
still church planting in unreached Muslim areas of Kenya, Jackson, the children’s
father, died of water borne diseases,
leaving his 5 children with no parents.
Because of their love for this family,
Mativo & Elizabeth began to provide financially for these children as best
they could.
Muthina, because of a teenage
pregnancy, was too ashamed to be in this picture. Ruth, her baby girl, was born in 2009, before
Elizabeth began Child Arise. This family
became the 1st to be a part of this ministry. Now Elizabeth checks on them 2 times per week
& provides for them as she can.
Elizabeth has Mutheu (pictured), also
a teen, in boarding school in hopes that she will be more able to concentrate
on her studies. Two older sons no longer
attend school.
It is the culture in Elizabeth’s area,
to keep orphaned children in their own home or they will lose their property,
which is all they have.
(I can't wait to tell you the exciting update of Mutheu, in the above picture. Watch for the newsletter/blog post coming soon!)
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