There is one family that we have known for a long time. Juma is the mom and she started coming to the Swahili church a while ago. She got baptized there. She has a lot of kids – 9 of them in all. The oldest would be a senior in high school but she has been staying home to help with the other kids. The youngest is a new baby! She was born two months ago.

Fortunately for them, they recently moved out of their apartment and into a house which is good because they have such a big family. But the problem they have is the dad is very sick and he had to stop working. He needs injections which cost a lot of money. So Juma is working very hard now.

We brought the family a lot of food, some baby clothes and, of course a Bible. Actually, we brought two Bibles – one in Swahili and one in English. The two oldest kids are learning English and they can understand it and wanted an English Bible too.

Juma was very happy about everything we gave her, especially the Bibles. She was carrying the baby girl around on her back. It seemed like she didn’t even know the baby was there, but the baby seemed really happy and was sleeping.

This was a very big family and they have some problems. They need a lot of help. I was glad to help them by giving them all those things, but I was especially glad because Juma was happiest about getting that Swahili Bible. She liked getting the food and baby clothes, but the Bible really made her smile.