Last week the North American Christian Convention was held in Indianapolis, and we were privileged to be there. CMF’s own Mary Kamau from Kenya was featured in the Wednesday evening service at which Dick Alexander preached following a wonderful worship service. Dick interviewed Mary, who received a standing ovation for her transformational ministry in the Mathare Valley slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Her holistic ministry program includes the establishment of schools for children who have no hope for attending school; a ministry to those suffering from HIV/AIDS; child sponsorship; evangelism and church planting; CHE (community health evangelism); microfinance (some 670 people have received loans with a payback rate of 95%); construction; and the list could go on and on.
Then on Friday morning of the convention speaker Gene Appel again highlighted this ministry with a wonderful eight minute dvd showing his own involvement with the ministry as well as the involvement of his church in southern California. That church, Eastside Christian Church, recently held a child sponsorship emphasis and some 1000 kids from Mathare Valley have new sponsors.
Mary Kamau was interviewed in the weekend services of East 91st. Street Chrisian Church, where she once again received standing ovations. The dvd they used to introduce Mary is worth watching.
After being in the CMF prayer time yesterday, Mary left for the airport so that she could return home from this very busy two week time in the U.S.
mary interview from rhett owen on Vimeo.
