The 4R's - RESCUE

Agape Children's Ministry is a Christian mission organization focused on rescuing at-risk children living on the streets of Kisumu, Kenya.  Agape's mission in reaching these kids can be summed up with the 4 R's:  Rescue, Redeem, Rehabilitate, and Reintegrate.  Within this post, I will focus on the first "R", RESCUE.

Agape's Outreach Team goes to the streets daily to minister to the boys there.  The boys end up on the streets for a variety of reasons:  some are truly orphans; others have left their home villages due to poverty or abuse; some are simply runaways.  Regardless of the reason for being on the street, these boys live in constant danger of violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, and drug abuse. Some may wonder if there are any "street girls" in Kenya, and while they do exist, finding a girl on the street is rare.

The Outreach Team spends time getting to know the boys on the street, and over time endeavors to win the boys' trust and confidence in order to try to convince the boys to come off of the streets.  In January 2010, Tammy and I had the opportunity to visit Kisumu to work with Agape and took the following pictures of the street boys there.  Usually, there are around 1,000 boys living on the streets of Kisumu.  Please pray that God would move in these boys hearts to give them a desire to come off of the streets!