Saint Boys Video

Chris had come to me last week and asked me to make a video about the Saint Boys Project. He wanted a video just showing an overview of the entire Project. This was going to be seen my most of their ministry and supporters. It was going to be used for his sister’s vacation bible school, which is highlighting Only Servants Ministry as their focus.

The Saint Boys Project is a part of Only Servants Ministries, who I am interning for this summer. The Saint Boys Project is centered in the slum of Kawangware, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the 2nd biggest slum in Kenya. It is about 3 square kms and holds around 800,000 people. There are a lot of boys that live in the street of Kawangware. They are there because of dead parents, ran away from home from abusive parents,or were told to leave. Street boys are not accepted in the community, they are looked down upon from everyone. No one wants anything to do with them. The Saint Boys Project helps take them off the street. It helps educate them, which is a HUGE thing in Kenya, feeds them, and comforts them. It helps show the love of Christ to them, and helps them to be a normal kid again.

This is a video showing all about this project. All five of us helped work on this video as well as putting input on what we thought should be in it or how certain things should happen. I was put in charge of putting the whole video together as well as making the final calls on it.

After a lot of work put into this video I was able to finish it. I think it came out very very well. Here is a link to it.
i couldnt get the link to work so you just have to copy & paste this address.

http://vimeo.com/12871768

Amboseli

This past weekend we were able to go to an area of Kenya called Amboseli. There is a National Park there, which is a park that is used for safaris. We went there for a few days just to relax and enjoy our break. To be revived of our energy since we have a a really busy time lately, including our weekend in Kibwezi. We stayed in a resort there. It was an amazing resort lodge.
There was chef prepared food each meal. There was buffets for breakfast and lunch, including meat, bread, vegetables, and fruit. Then for dinner there was chef prepared meals that you could chose from.

We were able to safari 5 times for about 2-3 hours each. We were able to see lots of zebras, wildebeests, water buffalos, antelope, giraffes, lions, and a ridiculous number of elephants. There were some great pictures. Here are some of them.

Be Ready and Willing

"but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;" -1 Peter 3:15

This weekend we all went to a town about 3 hours from Nairobi, named Kibwezi. We went to Kibwezi to do a youth weekend. We went to 4 different secondary schools, high schools, in the surrounding areas. We went to go to try to change the life of some of Kenya's young people. We went to make a difference in their lives, to show them the love of Christ. To try to disciple them into healthy disciples of Christ.

We tried to speak to them through songs, skits, dramas, poems, and teaching the Word of God. We were able to speak to about 2,000 high schoolers. We went to secondary boarding schools, where the students live there as well as learn there.

While planning for the weekend on thursday, God began to show me the opening of a door for me. We had 5 sessions for these schools. Our team leader, a partner of Only Servants Ministries, Pastor Meshack was teaching 3 of those sessions. The other 2 were needed to be filled. Another member with us Ben volunteered for one of the sessions. I began to pray to God to see if this was something that HE wanted me to do, if this was something that HE was leading me to do.

God began to show me that this was an opportunity that HE wanted me to do. I could feel HIM leading me to do this. So I volunteered to teach the other session. I was able to speak to a all boys secondary boarding school.

I have felt a calling to speak about suffering and persecution. I have struggled with these things a decent amount this year. Something I have felt a lot of churches and people have failed to talk about was that we will be persecuted & indure suffering in our Christian walk. Many people today preach about the prosperity that comes with our Christian walk. They speak of the verses that show happiness, prosperity, joy, and comfort. BUT they fail to speak about the verses that say we will indure suffering and face persecution because of HIS name. Verses like Acts 14:22 that says "We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God" and Mark 13:13 "all men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved". Also that God calls us to live a different, changed, and transformed life. Different from non-believers, a life that does not make sense to non-believers. Changed from our old ways, "a new creation, old has gone, the new has come." Transformed, "being transformed into his likeness". God calls us to get uncomfortable, to do the dirty things, to do things that go against this world. Doing these things will be hard. You will be persecuted when you do these things. BUT in these times and when things get hard you have to be faithful to God. Colossians 2 says "continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him."

This year was hard for me because God brought a friend into my life. He is a great guy, and an amazing man. We became great friends, and I knew God brought him into my life for big things. That he would be with me through the calm and the storm. But that wasn't God's plans. He decided to move away, which would separate us and we would not be anywhere near the big parts of each others lives. I really struggled with why God was doing this. Why he brought this friend into my life to have him taken away. God used this to show me that I have to lean on Him. That HE is the only thing that will be there for me no matter what. So I had to lean on Him, and stay faithful. God helped me learn a lot through this and has brought me to where I am now, leaning on HIM and staying faithful to His Word.

Also I began to see in His Word that suffering & persecution is also a very good thing. Suffering & persecution strengthens our faith. Just like it did for me, it makes us lean on God more, and see How much we need him because we can not do it by ourselves. It says in scriptures that "rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, character, and hope". Also in James 1 when it takes about "consider it pure joy when we go through trials, and temptations, because it develops perseverance.

Then I found that scripture shows that we should feel blessed that we endure suffering or persecution for His name. In matthew 5 it says "blessed are the ones who are persecuted". Then also in 1 Peter 4 "If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you." We should feel blessed that we get to endure the suffering for His name. Even going farther than that in the Word, it says that we should feel blessed because "we are to share in suffering with Him to share in His glory". WE GET TO SHARE IN HIS GLORY! How awesome is that? God's Glory! The name that is above all names, the creator of all things, we get to share in his everlasting and eternal glory! Then even farther in Romans 8 it says "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." God is going to use our sufferings to show even more glory that we will be able to compare.

Suffering is not always a bad thing. God will use these times of suffering to show His glory, and we get to share in that glory, and He will reveal HIS glory in US. That is amazing! I can't believe that He will let me, Kevin Huff, someone who is just a college student, trying to follow after him, trying to get to know Him more each day. Trying to help advance HIS Kingdom and Glory more and more, but not doing it with what I can do, but He is letting me be a part of it. Im am just so grateful that He lets me be a part of HIS work and HIS glory.

I was able to speak the Word of God to 630+ high school boys. God used me to speak to these young men. I was able to help these young men where they were. I was able to speak to some of them afterwards, and they said that it really helped them. Some of them were really struggling with suffering and trials. It was amazing to think that God used me to help these young men. God spoke through me to touch the hearts of some young men. I am forever grateful for that opportunity.

I really enjoyed speaking the Word of God. I enjoyed just speaking what I have been struggling with and things that I have realized. I was grateful to be able to show them things I have realized while pursuing God & staying faithful to His word. I am looking forward to seeing how God is going to use this situation.

I have a few minute video of it, but I can not upload it because of the internet here is very slow. I will update a post later that just has my video on it hopefully next week.

The Joy is Rising!

The Saint Boys

The thing that I have always felt as the biggest pull in Kenya has been the street boys, newly renamed by themselves as the Saint Boys. The Saint Boys Project is a part of Only Servants Ministry. It takes boys who live on the street off and helps educate them, teach them about Christ, and show them the unconditional love that Christ shows us. These boys, before they come into the program, have no one to take care of them or watch over them, live in the streets, are normally addicted to sniffing glue to get them high, as well as sometimes addicted to other drugs and alcohol. They are looked down upon in the community, sometimes considered criminals, and also looked upon as untouchables. This program gives them a place to come, learn, have fun, learn about Christ, and see that there is much more to life than the lifestyle they are currently living. A place that they can come and be accepted as they are, and not looked down upon. The purpose is to help make independent people that can be successful, and make healthy disciples of Christ. To help show them that they do not have to be a part of the street for their whole life, that they can be much greater than that.

These are some amazing boys. I love spending time with them. I look forward to the things we are able to do with them. They are very open and love to be around you. They are very excited to see us every time we come. I love just being able to be in their presence. I feel very blessed that I have had the opportunity to work with them as much as I have.



We have been able to do a lot of different things with them so far. We have done arts & crafts with them (mainly a salvation bracelet). This bracelet has different beads meaning different things including, black for sin, white for purity, red for Jesus’ blood, and green for growth in our relationship with Christ. They really enjoyed making these. We have also played different random small games just to get comfortable with each other. We also made up a scavenger hunt to do with them, where they had to work in teams against each other. Of course we had to play futbol (soccer) with them. They are really really good. It just amazes me how they are able to have such joy and fun in whatever they do with us. It also makes me think how selfish and ungrateful we are, as Americans, because we complain about doing some small thing that we don’t like as much.

This has really made me think a lot and made me somewhat disgusted with myself. When I think of their situations, and how they act, compared to how we as Americans, with myself included, act. It sickens me. It is unimaginable for me to think of how I would react if I was in their situation. I can NOT imagine not having parents or family to take care of me. I can NOT imagine not having shelter or a place to live. I can NOT imagine not knowing where my next meal would come from, or if I was going to eat again today. I can NOT imagine being an outcast and looked down upon in my community.

Thinking about this has really made me sick. To think about when we do have SO much and yet we are so picky, greedy, ignorant, and ungrateful. We get upset or frustrated when we don’t get to eat exactly what we want to eat, when they just want something! We don’t eat everything we have, when they just want to eat! We get angry and upset with our parents, when they just want parents or someone to take care of them! We say our house isn’t big enough or nice enough, when they just want some shelter. We want new and extra clothes, when they have just 1, maybe 2 pairs of clothes. We have numerous pairs of shoes, when they have 1 pair, mostly old and torn.

We are so ungrateful! They have so little but can have so much joy when they are doing things, even if it is just the little things.

This really breaks my heart. I can’t imagine being in their situation.

I think the thing that pulls me towards this program above all else is that I think this is the exact thing we are supposed to do as Christians. This is exactly what God wants us to do. He wants us to go and meet the unbelievers where they are, and accept them. He wants us to go and show them the Love of Christ. He wants us to love them where they are, not where we want them to be. He wants us to show people that there is more to this life than the things of this world. He wants us to show people the joy he has given us. He wants us to do the dirty work, to get uncomfortable. He wants us to do the uncomfortable things, that no one wants to do. He wants us to go touch the untouchables. That is exactly what we do as a part of the Saint Boys Project.