Martha's life began with unimaginable loss, and God’s intervention brought her into a new home. 

Postpartum complications made Martha's mother extremely ill. When she was just two months old, her mother died, and murmurs began to circulate in the family that this new child was somehow to blame. They felt that Martha had caused her mother’s death and was ill-omened. 

Her father saw her as property, but her God saw her as his precious daughter. 

In many remote, Kenyan communities, a girl’s life is not believed to be her own. Harmful cultural practices like female genital mutilation and child marriage are still observed, and girls are often denied an education because it’s seen as ‘wasting money and time’ on property that will simply belong to someone else eventually.

When Philip was just two years old, his world was filled with chaos and rejection. 

Philip’s mother suffered from severe, recurring mental breakdowns, and their remote community ostracized the family, believing his mother was demon-possessed. No one knew how to help her, so they shunned her and her children.

What began as one small home touched by God’s broken heart for street kids has grown into a bustling orphanage, school, and church.

World Challenge offers a lifeline of hope for desperate Kenyan girls facing forced child marriage, rescuing them from devastating abuse and suffering.

The streets of Nairobi, Kenya are no place for a child to be left alone, but some are given no choice.

God saved a man while he was in jail for a heartbreaking crime, and the Lord is rebuilding his life now from the ground up. 

In Paul’s letter to Titus, he strongly urged this church leader, “Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us” (Titus 2:7-8, ESV).

World Challenge’s partners in Kenya are helping abandoned kids create a better future. 

Joshua was very young, probably not yet a teenager, when he was abandoned to live on the streets of Kenya’s capital city. Sadly, that’s not uncommon. It’s estimated that there are as many as 300,000 kids living on the streets in Nairobi and other big cities across the country. Those kids lead difficult lives. Consistent meals are hard to come by, and fights and violence are very common.

World Challenge’s partners in Kenya are providing refuge for girls threatened with forced child marriage.

For many young girls in parts of Kenya, the questions of who and when they marry is not up to them. A legal battle against child marriage has been fought for decades in Kenya. Underage marriage was banned in 1990 and was more heavily criminalized by a law passed in 2014, but that has done little to stop the practice.

God is the only one who can completely change a hard heart, and he has done exactly this in one man who lived wildly and dangerously.

Emanuel Rop lives in the Rift Valley, in an area that borders two tribes called Kipsigis and Luos. He is 45 years old, and nothing about his life these days with his wife and four children would hint of his wild past before meeting God.