Turning Point Trust Blog
Praying for School Fees
It was a streamlined team today on the streets of Kibera – Eunice, Emily & Jon. But there was no rain – indeed some people didn’t want to stop as they may have to sit in the sun! An interesting day. Fairly busy, with a steady stream of people stopping for prayer. This week must [...]
Continue Reading >Ears to hear
This title does not refer to a deaf person being healed, alas, though we did try to talk a blind man and his companion into praying with us. They weren’t interested. Anyway, today’s blog is so named because we seemed to be hearing from God pretty effectively today. Before heading outside to pray we asked, [...]
Continue Reading >Giving Children A Choice
The tagline written on the signboard outside our Mashimoni centre reads ‘Giving children a choice’. One boy in our project recently faced a very important choice. 11 year old Collins (not his real name) left the streets two years ago to join our Kianda project, after spending a year catching up in transition class he [...]
Continue Reading >Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo
On 7th November 2011, we are inviting Social Entrepreneurs to the first Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo. The idea of the event is to bring together Social Enterprises looking to sell their products in Kibera and micro-entrepreneurs running businesses within Kibera, namely the Turning Point Finance Programme members. Our risk-averse members have naturally tended towards selling products [...]
Continue Reading >Prayer News 4th October
Turning Point Prayer Bulletin 4th October 2011 What an exciting start to the work after the August break – there’s so much going on! Last week up at the farm, the first group of mums spent a morning with the TP lawyer going through their agreements for their single acre plots they are now living [...]
Continue Reading >Learning to Listen
Another great week of being God’s servants in Kibera through the HotS ministry. A real mix of prayer requests, from people who are seeking justice for where they’ve been wronged, to a young man beginning to worry about his end of school exams coming up in the next month or so, to a lady who’s [...]
Continue Reading >Feeling hungry?
Walking out of Kibera today, I passed somebody carrying a bundle of what looked like white(ish) roots on his head. “What are they?” I asked Peter. “Ogombo” he informed me. “They use for cleaning their teeth. Also, they use it to increase their appetite.” I pondered this – isn’t there already enough hunger in Kibera, [...]
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