Mathare Valley - Kosovo

 
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The Mathare Valley is home to over 800,000 people. This huge slum is divided into smaller "slum villages" that help form community, boundaries and identification. There are 10 villages with approximately 80,000 people in each. These pictures are from the area called Kosovo. The MOHI center in Kosovo is a small dirt and cement block compound that houses a school for over 350 children ages 3-10. These children range from nursery class through 1st grade. The cooks (seen here in the "Kitchen") cook meals each day for the children and staff. The children eat a lot of cabbage, carrots and ugali. For many of the children what they eat at the center is the only food they will have that day.

This week a visiting team from the states did a Vacation Bible School with the children in the Kosovo school as well as doing home visits into the community.

The Kosovo Hope Center is also a church. The "Hall" or church building is a tin shed with a cement floor and during the week it is used as classrooms for the "Nursery Class". Lee works with a couple of young men who help pastor this church. They meet together weekly for discipling and also to develop materials for the New Believers. This past week while a visiting group was in the community sharing Christ - 2 people accepted the Lord! They were told to come to the church the very next day to join in the New Believers Class and they did!

Last week one of the pastors came back to Lee to share that he had taught the New Believers in the village of Madoya on "Assurance of Salvation" and there were 7 new believers in class. He was so excited!

Thank you for your partnership in ministry. Please continue to pray with us as we serve here. Please pray for spiritual strength, wisdom and protection for Lee. "Discipling takes more faith then any other task of the church. Since it is top priority for God, it is top priority for Satan. No work of God's servant draws more resistance than disciple making." (The Disciple Making Pastor by Bill Hull pg. 39)