We have just released a brand new book in time for this year’s North American Christian Convention at which missionary Mary Kamau will be featured. Mary is the Director of the Hope Partnership project in Nairobi, Kenya. The Birth of Hope is a coffee-table book with great photographs and a compelling fictional account of a boy from Mathare Valley named Peter. The author is Carrie Lassiter, daughter of long time Kenya missionaries Garry and Linda B. The book’s subtitle is “CMF International Ministry in the Slums.”
The initial idea for the book was mine (my thought was a regular book with a few photos), but my very wise colleagues fortunately overruled me, and the end result is much better. That is one of the many benefits of working with a team.
You can order the book through the CMF website: www:cmfi.org. Incidentally, our child sponsorship program for this part of Kenya now includes 4000 children, and is soon expected to be 5000. All of these children are from the Mathare Valley and all are in school where previously they were not. Many of these are AIDS orphans. But that is a story to be told another time.
