Our first outreach was held in a neighboring slum school. Children must pay to go to even public school in Nairobi and for those who are very poor, education is an extra sometimes. God spoke to Maureen about helping a school that is run solely by volunteer college students who teach 350 children all day long, right through lunch because the kids don't have food.

Our staff gave with sacrifice, each from their own pockets and added to our $175 budgeted amount for the outreach. With the money, they gave toilet paper, sanitary towels, bar soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes (donated by a Kenyan board member), charcoal for cooking, rice, cooking oil, pens, pencils and notebooks.

The also prepared food for 350 children (no small task) and set out to serve the kids on Friday last week. 

And this is where the story turns miraculous! Instead of 350 children, 750 showed up!! Nearly the entire slum came and it took our staff and girls more than two hours of serving food! Maureen said that they were praying that God would multiply the food and He did!! Right before their eyes...there was even left over food to send home with people!

All of this was done for less than $200 American dollars!

Knowing that these precious children who patiently waited for hours to be served were going so sleep with full bellies is a tremendous blessing. 

This school is run entirely by volunteers with no regular funding. The facility is in terrible condition. 

This is a bathroom:

We our excited to partner with this school and will be serving lunch quarterly. If you feel led to send a donation to this school, we would love to deliver it in your name.

God still does miracles!

Despair. Hopelessness. Heartbreak.

For the last two weeks, Maureen and her staff have been visiting churches and schools in the various slums of Nairobi, interviewing girls to become residents of the maternity home.

The stories are all different. Yet all the same. They are all filled with unbelievable pain: Step-fathers forcing themselves on young, scared girls. Orphaned pregnant girls sleeping on the ground, scrounging for food because they've been kicked out of their house. And finding girls too late, suffering from the trauma of self-aborting, injuring themselves, then trying to commit suicide.

It's hard, hard work, filled with long, sorrowful hours for our staff. Please pray for them. We want to help every girl, every one. But we can only take those who fit our criteria as we have limited space and exist to take the most at-risk girls.

Criteria: 

• at risk girls, orphaned and without a safe place to live
• at risk for abortion, suicide
• rape victims, forced prostitution
• parental or guardian consent (not always easy)
• and most important, the girls must want to come live in the maternity home (they are often scared and unsure)

Send your old magazines to Kenya! Many of the products our residents make are from used magazines, posters, brochures, etc. We use local resources, but when we have a way to send these items over for free, it saves us money (since buying them in Africa can get expensive).

Please mail to:

The Mercy House
8000 Research Forest Dr Ste. 115-110
Spring, TX 77382

To every person who has mailed in donations, given money, prayed for and suppported this ministry, you are responsible for this:

On July 21, our first baby girl was born via emergency c-section. Mom (Quniter) is doing well and so is her precious daughter. Without a doubt, this birth would have ended much differently in the slums.

(our three residents and Maureen)

Thank you for being a part of this miracle!