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Children at Risk Prayer Fellowship
by Catherine Dow, Kenya
1 June 2006
Two short term missionaries surrounded by Kenyan kids

These workers form the core of the Children at Risk Prayer Fellowship, which meets every month to worship, learn about child development, and join in specific prayer for needs within each of their 65 organizations. Last year the Fellowship arranged some training workshops for the project managers and caregivers—another opportunity to learn from one another. The workshops covered topics like planning, monitoring and evaluation, preventing burnout and time management. As a result of the prayer gatherings and workshops, God has answered many prayers. And there’s a further benefit from the cross-pollination that occurs as these people interact. Here are a few examples:

  • A Prayer Fellowship member introduced the director of New Adventure Children’s Centre to the World Food Programme. Now 300 children receive a hot meal at the Centre five days a week.
  • Siloamu Ministries told Calvary Evangelistic Fellowship about a local fund for HIV-affected families. Now Calvary’s primary school receives textbooks for their children and funds for income-generating activities for HIV-affected families in their community.
  • The women of Divine Connection were at the point of burnout. The workshop on planning and preventing burnout helped them narrow their focus to helping five elderly grandmothers to raise their 20 AIDS-orphaned grandchildren. Without this help to the grandmothers, all 20 kids would be out in the streets.
  • Riverside Baptist School, at Grapesyard Academy’s urging, accepted two secondary students tuition-free. They had been forced to drop out of school because they couldn’t pay school fees.
  • Open Hands Home for abandoned children was too big a job for Alice, the founder, until she found fellowship with others who understood her problems and hopes.

I am serving in Nairobi with SIM as a member of an umbrella service organization called Urban Ministries Serving God (UMSG). No matter how hard we work, the needs are still more overwhelming, and our only hope is in the power of God and the prayers and gifts of His people.
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