Morrell Family Charities

Body of Christ Children’s Centre is located in Nairobi, Kenya. It is run by Pastor Mary Watare and her husband. Their funding relies on $100-$200 sent by their daughter once a month and their own retirement, garden and cattle. The Children’s Centre has over 200 orphans and needy children that they feed at least two meals a day, and teach. Mary’s husband also serves in the community to help prevent domestic violence.

They cannot house the children, for they don’t have a place for them to sleep yet.  They do, however, keep the center open all day so that the kids can stay there during the day.  They close it at night and send the kids other places to sleep.  They would like to be able to house the kids all night soon.

In Nairobi the kids have to pass a test in order to attend Kindergarten. The center offers a pre-school class so that they may prepare the kids to pass the test and be able to start Kindergarten.

When Mary petitioned MFC for help she explained they were renting property that has a couple of buildings.  The property is .625 acres.  Some months out of the year they were not able to pay the rent.  Basically they go month to month praying that the Lord will provide a way for them to keep the center open, and every month he does.  They have wanted to add buildings to the property so they could have a place for the kids to sleep but they are afraid that the landlord would take the property from them.

They asked MFC for help to buy the property so that they have security in knowing they will not be evicted and so they may start building a bigger place so the kids can to stay permanently.  Founder of MFC (Morrell Family Charities), Paul Morrell, went down to Kenya and checked out the center.  He feels like it is a great organization and great people running it.  They sang and danced for him and were very excited when he approved the money for them to buy the property and build a new kitchen.