Cy-fair Christian Church

Imagine living in a place where your education wasn’t a guarantee. Try to envision having to choose which of your children would not be fed today. Picture living with 600,000 other people in the same situation within three square miles. Now imagine sharing a bathroom with all of those people. And I thought sharing a bathroom with my sister was bad!In the slums of Mathare Valley, the poverty is extreme. Because of that, people are desperate to escape by way of prostitution, drugs or alcohol. It’s estimated that 1 in 3 people who live there are HIV positive. In addition, malaria, typhoid, cholera and other disease put children and adults in danger every day.This is not the place you would expect to find joy. But that is the gift of the gospel. In Christ, joy can be possessed anywhere by anyone despite the circumstances. That is why Missions of Hope International is bursting at the seams with 19,000 children and dramatically changing the slums—both physically and spiritually. But that’s not all. It’s also changi