Power Women's Group - Kibera Slum

So this afternoon we went to Kibera Slums to visit the 'Power Women's Group'. This is a group of ladies who got together to try and support themselves. They make jewellery and some clothes and bags and things and sell them and share all the money they get from it.

We are going to go every week to do a bible study with them, they gave them bibles a few weeks ago and its amazing how excited they are to have them! 'I am so happy, now when i go to church i have my own bible, i don't have to look at my neighbours.' - a lady called Elizabeth, one of the few who can speak english. There were only 7 of the 14 women there today and a lady called Grace who is a social worker who has some connection with ACTS and came and translated for us.

It's amazing, some of the ladies stories and how little they know and yet how sure they are of what they believe. It's such a contrast from people in England.

Elizabeth told us her testimony, she was pregnant and she'd had labour pains for 3 days and her whole leg was swollen up. When they managed to get her to hospital she was told her baby was dead and she had to push it out to stop her dying too but she didn't have any strength to. As she was lying there she prayed and suddenly got strength to push and gave birth to a live baby (to the confusion of the doctors)! Some of the others had pretty amazing stories too.

So we came away having done out little bible study and felt as Moon (another volunteer who came on monday) said that we'd learnt a lot more than we'd taught!