I want to tell you about a woman in our Mathare Bible study named Esther Wanjiru. She started coming about a year ago, quiet, sitting in the back, never saying much. She had been through a hard marriage and was raising her children mostly on her own.
Slowly, over many Tuesday mornings, something shifted. She started asking questions during our lessons on forgiveness. She started staying after to talk. A few months ago she told me she had given her life to Jesus, right there in her small house, alone, after thinking about something we had studied together.
Since then I have watched her grow. She brought her neighbor Faith to the group last month. She has started a small savings group with three other women, putting into practice the financial stewardship lessons we teach. Last week she stood up during our closing time and prayed out loud for the first time, asking God to help her be a better mother.
These are the moments that make this work worth it. Not the big numbers, though we are grateful the group has grown past sixty women now, but the one woman in the back row who finally found her voice.
Thank you for praying for this ministry. Please keep praying for Esther and the other women still wrestling with hard marriages and harder circumstances.