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Featured picture (above): After qualifying for college, John Clinton receives a shock social gathering from his pals at Made within the Streets in Kenya. The ministry, which receives assist from Church buildings of Christ, helped Clinton end his research.
GHANA
ATEIKU — Graduates of a preacher-training faculty on this West African nation have new units of wheels to assist them unfold the Phrase. Ateiku Christian Ministries provided 12 graduates of its Douglas Boateng College of Evangelism with motorbikes, bought with funds from the Eastridge Church of Christ in Rockwall, Texas. The ministry additionally features a hospital, a Christian faculty and a well-drilling program.
Ghanaian Christians exhibit their new motorbikes.
KENYA
NAIROBI — “Faculty sure.”
Made within the Streets, a ministry on this East African nation, has by no means used these phrases to explain any of the at-risk youngsters it has served since 1995. Till now. John Clinton, 21, just lately certified for college — an unimaginable feat, contemplating that he as soon as lived on the streets of the Gikomba market.
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Abuse compelled him to flee his house, Clinton stated, however a good friend launched him to Made within the Streets, or MITS, by the ministry’s Eastleigh campus. The nonprofit, which receives assist from Church buildings of Christ, helped Clinton end his research regardless of the teasing he endured from different college students who got here from rich households.
“The one present, or let’s say benefit, I had was that I had MITS’ love, care and household assist, which inspired me to by no means, ever, ever quit,” Clinton stated. “And that was all I wanted.”
PERU
IQUITOS — This South American metropolis of a half-million souls is the biggest on this planet that’s solely reachable by river or air.
It’s additionally reachable by the Gospel.
Members of the Iquitos, Peru, group put together a meal of their new house.
That’s the prayer of three households — Nicolas and Cecilia Acua, Wilfred and Elieny Reyes and Gabriel and Jerly Vásquez — who just lately moved to this gateway metropolis to the Peruvian Amazon with help from Nice Cities Missions, a ministry related to Church buildings of Christ. Chris Fry, the nonprofit’s Latin groups director, accompanied the group to assist them get arrange with residences and financial institution accounts and start church-planting.
