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Foreword

There is only one valid explanation for a true work of God—it is that God Himself is its source and its strength. Paul wrote in Romans 15:18, “I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me.” That is the only story worth telling, and this is one such story you hold in your hand. It is an unfinished story of what Christ is accomplishing in that beautiful land of Kenya and in the broken lives of some of its people.

Not many parents can lay claim to having 2,500 children, but such is the relationship of Charles and Esther Mulli to their adopted family that each child knows them as “Mummy” and “Daddy.” From the very small beginning of taking three young, helpless street children into their home to live alongside their biological family, Charles and Esther have become established as parents (as some have said) of the largest family in the world! But it’s not just that they provide a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs, but a whole enterprise of education, health care, the development of barren land, business, a model of agriculture to the wider community and so much more has come about. Every sphere of life is included.

Of course there are human elements in this story. Charles Mulli himself had become a wealthy Kenyan businessman, despite the poverty and lack of opportunity of his own childhood. He laid aside all the benefits of material prosperity to invest in those who had nothing. But this alone does not suffice as an explanation! It is a story of the living God, taking possession of a humble family and enabling a stream of life to flow out of their hearts to bless and enrich others.

This work did not grow out of vision but out of opportunity. Every true work of God starts that way. As one opportunity is taken, another presents itself, ever growing, ever expanding, until a pattern and picture become clear about the way ahead. Part of that picture is unfinished. A university is now planned to provide a level of education and qualification for those unable to afford the normal means. And what next? Only God, in whose heart this began, really knows!

Enjoy this book, enjoy this family, and enjoy the God who is making it all happen.

Charles Price, former senior pastor of People’s Church in Toronto, Canada and host of Living Truth, an hour-long international television ministry program