Throughout 2024 Auntie Rubi began to feel a burden in her heart for the street children of Moroto town. Every time she was shopping or going to prison ministry she would see the street kids and think, “Lord, can’t we do something about them?” Legally they couldn’t be brought to Mission Moroto but surely there was something… Rubi began mentoring a newly released prisoner named Lydia and they would meet in the main Market in Moroto Town. One day, as they were walking through the open market, Rubi saw a little street boy cooking a chicken gizzard someone had given him in a tin can over some left over charcoal. Her heart broke. She asked Rebekah’s advice about what to do for them and Rebekah said, “Just show up and God will make a way.” So, the next Sunday afternoon in February, 2025 Rubi and Lydia met at the market with some bananas and about 20 street kids showed up and they shared bananas and Jesus and a miracle ministry was born.
Rubi kept “showing up” and the ministry grew rapidly. Soon though, she had to return to the U.S. but she had taken a former street boy, Daniel the Giant, who Rebekah had rescued years before, with her to the weekly street ministry and he had fallen in love with it. So she asked Daniel to lead the ministry while she was in the U.S. She would give him money for Chapati (fried African bread) for each child and the Mission Moroto youth would take turns sharing a Bible message. Every week while Rubi was in the U.S. Daniel sent her photos of the street ministry that had now grown to 70 children weekly. Rubi returned and continued leading the ministry weekly on Sundays at 2pm with the help of Mission Moroto youth.
It grew to over 200 children. One day a mother from the local slum called Nakapelimen, where most of the children lived, came to Rubi and said, “Thank you so much! You are changing Nakapelimen for the better.” What an affirmation! Soon, the meeting became too large to continue meeting in the market so Pastor Muhammed came to Rubi and offered his makeshift church building for the meetings.
Today they are ministering to over 330 children weekly with a Bible story and a piece of Chapati and only Heaven knows what is to come. Praise the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ!
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