At the very beginning, I suspected a scam. I told them so.
About 9 years ago, I began trading emails with a pastor in Kenya who read my sermons on this blog site. He would ask me questions and also send me notes on his sermons. I was happy to share thoughts with him, but inwardly there was always a little hint of suspicion.
“I wonder how long it will be until he asks me for money?”
That day did eventually come, and I immediately was on my guard. He told me of the need for an orphanage in his village. “So many street kids living in garbage heaps,” he said.
Like I said, I was on my guard and told him of my belief that it was all a scam. But there was also the Holy Spirit talking to me. Even with this, it took a year of me refusing to listen to that inward prodding from God before I finally went to see if what the pastor told me was correct. I went and saw, and we began the orphanage in 2017.
The entire affair is a very long story, but since beginning the orphanage, someone occasionally still asks me how I know that it is not a scam. Usually the inquiry is in a polite way from someone who simply wants to know. But once in a while, it is less of a question and more of an accusation, saying that I am part of a scam.
This has come to me recently. It has caused me (once again) to demonstrate the veracity of this work of helping these kids. Despite these attacks, I am happy for the children that we have helped over the years and have gotten to know from trips to Kenya to see them.
Once again seeing the need to defend the ministry, I asked the various government agencies who oversee the work there for letters of recommendation. They are posted below:
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