Robert Malumbi

to fill you in on what Robert would have said to you if he had been able to visit on Sunday.

Robert is married to Alice and they have 4 children, Rodney (15), Cheryl (8), Leroy (3), Elizabeth (2).

They have a very small place in Nairobi from where they reach out to children from the garbage dump and orphans. They have 350 children who come daily to an 'orphanage' and to a school which Robert has built and finances. 400KM west of Nairobi, Robert has some land which he has 'donated' for a Missionary Training School which he is building. He has in two years completed one building, but it still needs to have the windows put in and the inside finished. it also needs water and toilets. Eventually he hopes to have a chapel, a dormitory, classrooms, and an administration block. he has three acres but he needs five.

The original budget for construction was £138000. To date he has been provided with £3000. he showed us photographs of people from his church digging the foundations. the only paid labour is the technical advice. All the actual building work is done by unpaid labour. Alice is supervising the work and so much of the time they are apart. As well as this Robert and Alice provide what Robert calls 'child support' for 27 children as and when he can (not his children, just children who need support).

He goes on frequent preaching trips both within Kenya and outside. His most recent trip was to Uganda. he has preached in Somalia. He has planted four churches. The pastor of one of the churches he planted in Somalia was recently murdered, and Robert and Alice have been providing support to his widow. Robert graduated from (I think) a US university in agricultural economics. Alice is a trained nurse. She has been unwell, dignosed with diabetes which she is trying to manage by diet, rather than medicine. They live in a poor area of Nairobi by choice.

They are attached to World In Need International and Robert has been in the UK to attend their conference.If anyone wanted to spend time in Nairobi teaching in the school or helping with the building work they would be most welcome,.

Robert also needs to build up a supply of theological books for the missionary training college.

David Barnes