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With your help new churches are bringing hope in a city slum area. Just to give you background, here is a… day in the life of a slum-child:

Sharon’s day begins early as she gets herself ready to walk to grade school.  As soon as classes end she must then hurry home where her mother has prepared sweet bread for her to take into the streets to sell for needed income.

Sharon quickly changes clothes, slings a dirty bag over her shoulder to carry water in, and grabs the tray of bread wrapped in paper and stacked high.  She rushes to the city center where she will illegally hawk her wares dodging in and out of the commuters stuck in traffic.

“By the time I get to Nyayo Stadium roundabout, it’s past 6:30 pm, so I get to work immediately,” she says. “When the traffic clears, it’s past 9:00 pm. My older brother looks for me at that hour and we start heading home.”

Exhausted when she gets to her small home, she does her chores then drops into bed. Tomorrow will be the same.

Note: Your prayers during May as we travel are so appreciated!  You can follow our travels at our Travel Blog!

The women came to the director of our Women in Congo ministry and asked if they could march together, as a group, in the International Women's Day event on March 8.

I get tingles up my arm thinking about this.

These women have each come from the most hopeless, depressed, and oppressed situations.  Many were sexually used or abused, all had given up hope in themselves and for their families.  But their lives have changed and they wanted to tell others that it's possible--that God can lift the destitute and sit the lowliest in high places.

The director of this ministry, Angel, did not initiate this idea.  Rather, the women themselves came to her and said, "We want others to know that they can find hope; that they can change!"

So... on March 8, during the Women's Day march in D.R. Congo... they held their heads high and did just that!

I am often asked why the spiritual climate in Africa seems more alive than here in the West.  One reason that stands out is what I perceive as simple, childlike faith.

Don’t misunderstand.  I am not saying that our friends in Africa are simple or childlike in their intellect or understanding.  That would be a ridiculous statement.  But I am suggesting that they have an uncanny confidence that if God says it, they can take Him at His word.