Once in a long while, something happens in your life that makes you wish you were able make time stand still so that you could bask in the glory of the moment. Last Saturday was that day for Sinai slum children.
The kids had a taste of a different world.

And “it was great!” as one of them told me before I left the venue. As soon as they trooped into Internationals School of Kenya (ISK) compound, they were received with joy and smiles from exuberant students eager to show them around and play with them. This kind of attention from strangers is often in short supply back home, whenever stranger talks to them it’s normally either to shoo them off because of the stereotype assumptions about street children or abuse them. But at ISK, they were in good hands, at least for a moment.

Brookhouse School is perhaps one of the most prestigious schools in Africa. Situated in the leafy suburbs of Karen, it is the only school in Africa with an imposingly fabulous grand castle standing right at the centre.

High walls of the posh Karen suburb, to the broken down shanty homes in Kuwinda slum, a connection between two communities divided by their social status has taken a turn around

Brookhouse School has opened its hands and embraced the children living in Kuwinda slum. Christian Mission Aid, through the children ministries program, connected the two worlds last year through the ‘Christmas Food Bucket drive.’

Visiting the slum for the first time last year, Brookhouse’s Community service class was overwhelmed with sadness, seeing the state of living that children almost their age have to endure. This was the driving force behind their attachment to children in Kuwinda slum.

Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. 
Psalm 63:4

Save for the occasional soft whimpering and children humming, worship at Immanuel Church is a silent affair. No microphone, no guitar and just a single drum infrequently banged “boom”! It is one of the most compelling forms of worship you can ever experience. For attendants who do not understand sign language, it’s the beauty of the well-coordinated sign movement that gratifies.

Last Sunday a team from Christian Mission Aid experienced that unique form of worship when they visited the Immanuel Church for the Deaf in Kiambu district, about 30  miles away from down-town, Nairobi. Ikuni is a sleepy village with large tracts of coffee plantations, dotting hills and winding roads. It’s a breath-taking site! Here a bag of Mangoes (more than 200 pieces) goes for a dollar.

The  neatly dressed deaf members meet in a tiny, dimly lit shack with hanging ceiling and poor ventilation. Right next door meets the charismatic