King's Kids Village

Again its been awhile, I have a hard time just sitting down to write but I have a great post for you. Two weeks ago I met John, the director of King's Kids Village, an orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi. Torrey and I were facilitating activities, which was a blast. There was one girl who took a particular shine to me, I would guess she was 12 and had severe autism. She took pride in showing me, her new friend off to all of the facilatators of the orphanage. Where I would awkwardly say "hi" and then she would tug on my arm and take me to my next meeting.

John, the director, took the ministry from the hands of his mother who has moved back to the states with her husband just a year ago. He took the time to tell me the story of the orphanage. It was amazing. When his mother was 25, back in 1950 she recieved word from God that she was going to be the mother of many. She took it to mean that she was going to run an orphanage. Her answer was, "just tell me when and where and I will do it." No word for 50 years and in 2000, the Lord said, I want you to build an orphange now, in Kenya. She replied, "Lord I am 75." The Lord reminded her that Sarah was 99 when she gave birth, and he was only asking her to open an orphange. So she went to Kenya and found the land she was confident the Lord wanted for the orphanage. When her and her husband left for Kenya they sold everything they had and were able to make a down payment on the land but they needed another 100,000 USD. The proprietor of the land gave 3 mo. and they were able to get 3 more. She heard from the Lord again and he said, you didn't believe I could do it in 3 mo. so I am going to do it in 1. At the end of the month they had the money and now 9 years later, they are operating at full capacity and transforming lives.

Bwana Asifiwe