The ministry in Kibera is showing wonderful progress and the influence of “The Met” is dramatically affecting this neighborhood known as the world’s largest slum. We had a MANNA team from University of Texas who were able to minister there for the entire month of June and Karen and I were also privileged to be present their for several days at different intervals during the summer so our report is firsthand.  The school under very difficult economic and political stress has continued to flourish, because of the “Met” financed feeding program. This feeding program, which is so rare in that desperately poor neighborhood, has helped the enrollment of the school to grow to a capacity of slightly over 400 students. The feeding program is provided to all of the students completely free of charge and includes a breakfast of local porridge and fruit (the porridge is wheat and milk based providing protein and calcium). The lunch again is provided free to all students and includes rice with a vegetable, meat or egg everyday. For many if not most of these students these are the only regular meals that many of them will have on a daily basis. The feeding program is also dramatically affecting the spiritual impact the church is making in Kibera. It has strongly raised the profile of the church in the community and has helped provide many visitors and new prospects. This summer the church had the two largest attendances in their history and saw almost 100 people come to Christ in a six- week period this summer.  The “Met” financed building program, providing for a new school and church in Kibera, is progressing slower that we had hoped, however it is still on target. Third World bureaucracy can be a very frustrating reality. The property has been secured and the paperwork to begin construction was filed months ago. We believe all the requirements have been met and the local leaders have signed off and construction should begin early in 2009. My wife Karen and I travel to many of the poorest and most difficult places on earth and we can honestly say that there is no place in the world more distressing than Kibera, Kenya. Thank-you Metropolitan Baptist Church for making a difference spiritually and physically in the lives of these children and their families.