“It was a blessed assurance to come across SGM Lifewords‘ Choose Life curriculum: the revolutionary spin of the wheel that marked a new stage in the life of our ministry.” George Thotho, Mathare CDC
The Mathare Community Development Centre offers informal schooling, health care and a feeding programme to children from one of the largest slums in Kenya. Dedicated staff have been running a health programme for a couple of years at the church-turned-educational- centre.
But when George Thotho, one of the directors, encountered Choose Life for the first time, he was passionate about the opportunity it provided for his staff to minister to the children’s spiritual needs as well. “You are inspired of God to capture this missing aspect of the ministry need at our Centre – the need of the soul!” he enthused. “It is a perfect blend. We can now care for the body, mind and soul of thousands of children in Nairobi.”
Driven by this passion for a perfect blend, George mobilised not only the teachers in the Mathare Centre, but teachers and social workers in neighbouring centres too, to attend a Choose Life Teacher Induction Workshop. Now, 75% of the teachers and social workers at the Centre have been trained, and are working hard to implement the curriculum.
On a follow-up visit to the Centre, Lifewords staff were able to see first-hand that this hard work is bearing fruit in the form of changed attitudes and changed behaviour amongst the children as they are equipped to internalise and act upon the biblical values of love, peace, justice, freedom, and concern for others.
Eunice, one of the girls attending the Centre, explained: “Although we have many problems, as we progress with the modules, one at a time, the more my eyes are opened and my faith sharpened. I feel like a damaged moti (car) which is being panel beaten and lathed back into shape.”
Choose Life is part of SGM Lifewords‘ work to help people and communities-in-need find life-transforming connections with the Bible. To find out more, visit www.sgmlifewords.com/transform.
i guess i know george thotho….be blessed man u got a big heart.