I, Norina Purro, was on a motorcycle taxi, Kitale, Kenya’s main source of transportation. I was headed to the town market. Wearing no helmet, I clung my arms around the driver for the ten minute ride. Knowing my Lord was protecting me I preached the gospel in the drivers ear until we reached town. The more I spoke the more the Holy Spirit gave me boldness. When the ride was over I was filled with joy. I stepped off the motorcycle and paid the driver. He was not ready to make a commitment to Christ. I knew that God’s Word would not return void. I turned around to walk away and I was surrounded by homeless children. They were begging me for money. From prior experience, I knew that many homeless use the money for drugs. Rather than giving money I learned to purchase food for people of the street. The Holy Spirit was leading me to the sidewalk adjacent to the supermarket. A vendor kindly lent me his plastic chair. Around fifteen children sat down on the sidewalk around me. I began to speak of Jesus and share the gospel. There were a few who did not understand English. Unable to speak Swahili I struggled communicating. While this was all happening I felt a tap on my shoulder, glanced and there stood a man who I was not familiar with. Edward knew me. He spoke of the Day Of Prayer where a few thousand gathered a few months before. That’s how he knew me! He asked, “what are you doing”? I explained that I was sharing the gospel with the children. I asked him to interpret. He stayed with me the entire time. I wanted to return next week and do the same. He was excited to join me. This was the beginning of Fun And Faith Restoration Ministry. 

The homeless children live to survive. They sleep in dark alleys, near the train tracks, behind restaurants, they eat out of the dumpster, and on sidewalks. They rob people in town for meals, they pan handle, and beg. They are known as, “Glue Boys” because they sniff glue as often as they can. They are very dirty and their clothes are torn. Many have been physically and sexually abused. Some have run away from home, others are orphans and have no relatives to raise them. There are over a thousand homeless children in Kitale. 

The goal of FFARM is to gain the trust of these children so that they will be willing to be placed in a rehabilitation program, foster home or orphanage. These children die on the streets and need a safe environment. These children need biblical counseling, need to learn how to read and write, to be educated in hygiene, fed at least one hot meal a day, need to learn to play and most of all learn the gospel of Jesus Christ. We opened a day program was open from 9 am to 3 pm.

The Fun And Faith Rehabilitation Ministry, (FAFRM), planned to build a new faith community which would uniquely reach the homeless population with the gospel. The concept of a day care center was opened, and worked to feed the children and to present the gospel. This was an authentic attempt for leadership to reach out and bond with these homeless and hungry children of Kitale. The day care program went well for a year.

Due to Covid the day care children were quarantined by the government, for three months, at FFARM. Covid blessed FFARM. While the children were quarantined they became a family and did not want to go back in the street. FFARM became an orphanage.