After much prayer over ROCK Ministries for the new year, Teresa was given the theme for 2025: Abiding in Christ to experience God’s glory! She was reading in Exodus 33 about Moses, who had already experienced the miracles surrounding the release of the Israelites from slavery, asking for God to show him His glory! Moses wanted to go deeper still in His relationship with God. God said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you.” May we be like Moses!!

The first week into the new year a miracle happened for Edwina, one of our ROCK children who has been in the children’s home since an infant. She was accepted into Ujima Trade School in Kisumu for a course in Hospitality! And guess where this trade school is located? In the very building that was used as ROCK’s first home when Elaine moved the ministry to Kenya around 2001!  What an amazing surprise. So many beautiful memories flooded Teresa’s mind as she drove onto the compound. There was no housing available for Edwina at the school, but the receptionist mentioned a staff member who had a few rooms available for rent. This staff member turned out to be one of the ushers at Teresa’s church! This is God once again doing “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine”! (Eph. 3:20)

Malava Christian Academy started on January 6^th with 147 students in attendance including three levels of preschool classes all the way up to Grade 5. Over the Christmas holiday, partitions had been built to prepare the Grade 5 classroom which maxed out the multi-purpose hall. Please pray for us this year as we raise funds for a school building to house four classrooms. Kyon and I will be traveling to Kenya in early May to take pictures and interview the staff and children hoping to better tell the story of the impact Malava Chistian Academy is making on this community in Kenya. We also hope to better explain the need for an actual structure after having made-do with the huts and multi-purpose hall these last five years. Please go to the ministry website below if you would like to donate towards the $110,000 building project, and don’t hesitate to reach out to us with questions

This year we have seven ROCK Ministries children in primary school, eight in secondary school, and five that we are supporting through vocational school. Moses has almost completed his course in building technology, Joshua will soon be taking an exam to see if he can advance to the next level of his food and beverage industry training, Tom continues to study agriculture, Molly continues in her course of hospitality and tourism, and Edwina is just starting her course in Hospitality (see photo with Teresa). As with all the children, our hope is to equip them for life as young adults. ROCK’s missional statement carries on from childhood to adulthood, “…to share the transforming love and favor of God with the children in our care by nurturing them and empowering them through education to discover their God-given gifts and purpose as contributing members of their communities and ambassadors of Christ’s love.” ROCK Ministries International is on mission with you through your generous financial support and frequent prayers. Thank you so much for your partnership! We together also sponsor a number of other needy children in the community expanding this influence!

Our staff are growing in unity and in number! Two new teachers were added this year with the addition of Grade 5. Please find the enclosed list of all the names of the staff and ROCK Ministries International children who we remain fully responsible for as guardians. Remember also in your prayers the many families impacted through the school and the 147 children in attendance.  We look forward to the near future as we begin a family strengthening program which will include training in animal husbandry, farming, and small business development. Your generous donations have already contributed towards the completion of a large stable that currently houses three cows providing milk for our school and children’s home and will also become a place for educating others. The maize grown on the land is now being milled on the property as well, thanks to a donation towards repairing the diesel operated milling machine. God is providing financially through you and expanding the ways the ministry can meet some of its own needs. In the future, we will be teaching families in need to do the same. An exciting year is ahead!! May we together abide in Christ and experience His glory on this earth.