This month I have been working with and living at Challenge Farm in Kitale, Kenya. ChallengeFarm is a ministry established by an American woman named Cheri. The whole ministry began when Cheri and her husband noticed hundreds and thousands of kids playing and living in the streets of Kitale. Cheri and her husband saw the need and they did something about it. They started driving down to the poorest streets, feeding the kids, and tried taking care of them as best as possible.
The children’s testimonies are amazing and also very heartbreaking. A lot of them lived on the streets with no food or family. Most of the times they would be high off of sniffing glue to stifle their hunger, but also to help stifle their emotional and spiritual hunger as well.
The children came to the farm malnourished. Not only did they need food, but the love of a family and love from their heavenly Father. It is truly miraculous that a place like Challenge Farm even exists. This is how I know that God did it.
It is easy for me to look at Cheri and let my jaw drop to the floor in amazement of her success. But then I look at the children around me, I hear their stories of transformation, and I know that it is by the Grace of God these children are saved.
It is by God’s power that Challenge Farm exists. Yes, Cheri is a wonderful woman of God. But she isn’t amazing by her own success, she is amazing by how she let God use her simple obedience.
