Mukonza & Selah
By Dawn Brown
Our kids are so blessed to have donors like you, who care about
them enough to give your own finances so that they can learn about our Lord, go
to school, feel loved and valued by God and His people, enjoy good times with
others and have food in their bellies.
Mukonza is one of the women who are blessed by Child Arise. She was the 5th wife of her husband, who died
of old age. Her son also became sick and
died. With the loving attention and
encouragement from Elizabeth Mativo, eventually Mukonza attended one of our
Child Arise gatherings for widowed women.
Mukonza wasn’t a believer when she came the first time, but it was
the love she could feel from the others that kept drawing her back. In time, after much prayer and teaching,
Mukonza asked Jesus to forgive her and trusted Him as her Lord and Savior!
As Mukonza grew in her faith and was attending our events,
including when the widowed women and orphaned children meet together, she began
to feel the needs of the children and has now taken in 5 orphaned kids.
One of those kids is Selah Muendo.
Selah was the second born of 5 children in her birth family. Her father died from drinking the illegal
alcohol, so many become addicted to. It
isn’t fit for human consumption, and even though they know it’s deadly, many
make this choice. After a while, her
mother traveled to the far off city of Nairobi, to try to provide for herself
and her children. She never returned.
Mukonza, Selah and the other children in her care are committed to
their attendance at Child Arise Bible lessons and prayer time. Selah is one of our high school students and
began being sponsored by Child Arise in school about 2 years ago. Mukonza is very helpful to Elizabeth,
especially cooking and serving for the children at the Child Arise meal and
Bible lesson times.
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Selah on
the left with 2 more Child Arise high school girls
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Selah in the front with 2 more Child Arise high school girls and Elizabeth Mativo
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Elizabeth Mativo passes out supplies to some of the Child Arise high school girls
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| Elizabeth Mativo passes out supplies to some of the Child Arise high school girls |
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| Elizabeth Mative and some of the Child Arise high school girls when they came for school supplies along with some of the widowed women who care for them. |
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Mukonza
on left, Elizabeth Mativo on right, along with another lady in the Child Arise widows group
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Mukonza, second left, along with another ladies in the Child Arise widows group
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Mukonza in pink top,
serving the Child Arise meal
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Our Building
by Dawn Brown
Our Child
Arise Spiritual Growth & Feeding Center needs you in so many ways. Because of the skyrocketing inflation in
Kenya, we felt it best to begin the building of our facility before we had all
the funds raised. We definitely need
additional donations so that construction does not come to a halt! Praise God with us that we held our prayer
and ground breaking ceremony in August!
Another way
we need your help, is with a name for our new site. As you read this article, put your creative
juices in action and send us your suggestions for a name! We are hoping and praying that the building
will be named with something that brings honor and glory to our Lord and might
include a description of what will be happening inside.
In addition
to housing the government required office space, this will be a place where the
women and children can meet with a roof over their heads, to pray, share a meal
and have a Bible lesson. Currently, this
takes place in our missionary, Elizabeth Mativo’s yard.
Quite a few problems have arisen over the
years. The biggest being the
weather. Elizabeth and others work very
hard and long, cooking a meal for the kids.
They can have rain, wind or blazing sun on any day. We have upwards of 200 high energy, hungry
kids who are a bit difficult to control in a big open area when teaching a
Bible lesson. There’s also the personal
safety of Elizabeth, with all of attention being drawn to her home.
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| Prayer & Ground Breaking |
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| Prayer & Ground Breaking |
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| Elizabeth Mativo with the tanks to transport water to site |
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| Tank to store water needed for construction |
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| Bags of concrete inside our storage shed at construction site |
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| Building materials delivered to construction site |
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| Needed to pump water at construction site for concrete |
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| Traveling far to collect water for our construction |
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| Collecting water from far off streams to transport back to construction site for concrete |
Prayer Requests
We pray for the Child Arise children
who will be sitting for their national exams at the end of October, so that they
can have exams peacefully, without interference of elections, and also for God
to give them a peace of mind at this time.
The children of
Kenya have had a hard school year because of the political turmoil of
Kenya. They held presidential elections in
August and the schools were closed for a week.
Their Supreme Court nullified that election and re-elections were held
in October. There’s been quite a lot of
violence leading up to both elections.
The schools are now closed until the end of the year. Elizabeth Mativo asks for your prayers as
the schools have never been closed this long.
There is apprehension that without school, the kids will turn to
drinking or other objectionable activity.
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Widows & Orphans
Ministry
827 5 Ave Dr W, Andalusia IL 61232
309-798-2596
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