Kikitemo Settlement

Tuesday morning we went by the IDP camp on our way into Nairobi.  The government has finally found some land to give them to resettle so they will not be forced to live in this camp.  The land is just one mile up the hill from their current location.  It consist of five acres that they can subdivide into plots that each family can farm.  Obviously, this is great news!

But something has happened to this group of displaced people while they wandered through the wilderness together; they have become a family.  More importantly, they have become a church.  Their first decision when told of their five acre gift, was to all agree to give one acre of it to the Lord, a first-fruits offering that is really hard for me to imagine.  They want our ministry to help take care of the orphans there, on the land God has given them, and they are willing to give 20% of it back to the Lord to make it possible.  That’s a God sized story that I would not have believed if I hadn’t been around to watch it unfold.

So in my meetings with them we have agreed that as soon as the funds can be found, we will build a full size feeding station on the land they have given us, which will include a hall, a widow’s dorm, and a kitchen.  Grace Njeri will run the feeding station make sure the orphans have someplace to sleep among the other families, just as they have been doing all this time.  We have agreed to purchase an additional acre of land adjacent to the one they have given us, to provide space to eventually build an orphanage when monthly funds become available and they have had time to establish themselves on their new land.

The paperwork for the land transfer in already in process, and the IDP’s expect to move next month to their new place.  This is an amazing opportunity to partner with God and a really great church in expanding His kingdom on earth.  If you would like to financially participate in building the feeding station at Kikitemo Settlement, please send me an email.

After our visit at IDP, Mbuvi and I went home to Nairobi.  Wednesday morning we will brave the city traffic to try to buy medical supplies for the medical trips that will be coming this summer.  More tomorrow.