Turning Point Trust Blog
Busting down the walls at holiday club
This December holiday club we’ve been exploring stigma, not a particularly Christmas-y message, in fact the theme draws us a lot closer to the Easter story, I’m sure Santa will get over it. This week the Turning Point Kids are thinking about the labels people put on each other, both good and bad. The Turning [...]
Continue Reading >Prayer Bulletin 29th November 2011
Today is Day 2 of Holiday Club in Kibera. School’s finished here last week, and we have one week with the kids before many of them travel to see family in their rural homes for Christmas. The theme for this Holday Club is stigma, and yesterday saw the kids really engaging with the games & [...]
Continue Reading >Great Expectations
Leaving behind the city that’s been your home for years for a new life in the country; leaving your neighbours and friends for a completely different lifestyle; swapping the harsh independence of daily survival in an overpopulated slum for a fledgling community in the sticks. What would your expectations be? This is what we discussed [...]
Continue Reading >God turns HIV+ to HIV-. Boom!
Much of today’s two-hour prayer time was spent sitting about waiting for someone to want prayer, we were fairly bored and looking forward to finishing with 10 minutes to go when Linet rocked up to blow us away with her testimony. It was perhaps a year ago when Linet stopped by for prayer. She was [...]
Continue Reading >Group Games with Group 2
So, yesterday in Kibera saw the 10 mums who will make up the next community to go to the Kinangop farm. They made some mean chapatis to go with rice and a delicious ndengu stew. Then we played some group games to get them laughing together. On the face of it, this didn’t achieve much. [...]
Continue Reading >Get familiar
Two weeks ago I was on site for the new centre in Laini Saba. At lunch time I decided to check in on a small shanty hotel known as ’Fresh Lake Hotel’. It is at this hotel that most day-time street kids in Laini Saba come to have their lunch after their hard days work either after selling scrap [...]
Continue Reading >Pass me not
” Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you” Isaiah 49:15 This verse came strongly on my mind when we were out praying this morning on HotS, more so when we met two people. One, a [...]
Continue Reading >Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo #1
Around 200 TPFP members gathered on Monday for the first Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo to learn about innovative products they could add to their businesses.
Continue Reading >It’s goodbye to Kevin
Kevin, who has been great at teaching Bible stories to the kids at our Mashimoni Centre, resigned this week. We want to wish him well as he starts a new job, and say a big THANK YOU for all his work with TP. Kevin – you will be missed!
Continue Reading >Prayer Bulletin 4th November 2011
First off, here is the picture you should all have received with the last bulletin, and apologies for my lack of technical know-how that caused you to not receive it! It shows Jackline, up at the farm, just having signed the agreement to her own land. It was a momentous day, watching all the mums [...]
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