Many Thanks From Mbooni!

Singing Praises to Our Lord & King

Many Thanks From Mbooni!

By The Women & Children of Child Arise & Dawn Brown

            Child Arise Kenya Widows & Orphans Ministry has received thank you notes, in English, from some of the orphaned children and a group note from the Christian widowed women who benefit from your ongoing and generous support.

            I wish I knew of a way to easily get them to each one of you so that you could experience the uniqueness of each note, see the individual child’s handwriting and style, the type of note paper each person used, the size of each piece and the way some of the paper has been torn to the needed size and individually folded to be mailed to the United States.

            It reminds me, once again, how real these woman and children are and how, like each of us, they were fearfully and wonderfully created, knit together in their mother’s womb, not hidden from God, and brought to our attention like only our Lord can do.  He allows us to show His love to them!

(I have removed the names for this blog post.)

            Here is a little sample of the notes:

From the women:

“Christian Widows

A.I.C. (African Inland Church) Muthei

P.O. Box 233

Kikima.

RE: Thanks Giving.

            We take this chance to thank our God and send greetings to you all as we hope you are all well.  We are all fine and also our family members.

            Our main theme is to thank you a lot for the present gifts you always send to us through Mrs. Elizabeth Mativo and her son Joseph. 

            As we remember the Bibles, blankets, cooking flour, cooking fat, and also each widow received one of these sheep, goats and hens which we are taking care of at our homes.

            May God bless you all as we continue to remember you in our daily prayers.

Your’s faithfully,

A.I.C. Muthei Widows:

Twenty-five individual women listed their names.

From one of the children:

29/4/2013

Name of Child

            My name is ________________.  I am in standard eight (8th grade).  We are three in our family .. two boys and one girl.  Our grandmother is the one caring us.  My parents have passed away. 

            I am so thankful to Elizabeth Mativo who is paying my school fees.  I want to continue with my studies and I know God will help Elizabeth to continue paying my school fees.

Thank you,

Name of child

From another child:

6/5/2013

            My name is ___________________.  I’m in form two (high school sophomore).

            My family consists of three people, my dad, my grandmother and my elder brother.

            What can I do is to thank God for providing me with school fees for the last year and I believe that He will also provide for the coming two years.  Amen.

            I thank Elizabeth Mativo for providing the school fees for me and God will never leave her behind.  She also provides things like books, biro pens, uniform and other shopping items.  I thank her very much.

            Continue praying for me.

Yours faithfully,

Name of child

From a child:

7/05/2013

            My name is ___________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.  I am in form two (high school sophomore) in Utumoni Secondary School.

            I am happy for providing me with school fees and other personal items like uniform, books, shoes, pens, etc. 

            I think God to Elizabeth Mativo.  I’m happy to stay with her.  She is like my mother.  She tell me word of God day and night.

            I love education and I pray that God will provide me with school fees until I finished my education.

            Our family consists of 8 people, 5 girls & 3 boys.  I am the last girl in the family.

            Pray for me.

Yours faithfully,

Name of child

(She never attended church, but now, her and her widowed mother are believers!)

 

Prayer Requests

U   Recently teachers were on strike in demand for higher pay. That means all children, especially boarders, had to come home until teachers resume duty. This has caused some financial restrains because of transport back home and now back to school again as teachers have resumed duty. Please pray for understanding between the government and teachers as they have not resolved the salary issue yet.

U As we thank the Lord for how far we have come, please pray for the ministry to grow and also renew our strength in this journey to heaven. Pray that we will get more financial help. The poverty levels continue to rise but we thank God we can do something little - We give food baskets to the needy every week.

 

 

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