I am Jonas Kilonzi and am a born again Christian, I believe that Jesus Christ is the savior of my life. I grew up as a Christian in my teen years because I received my salvation through an open air gospel crusade in 1998, however, my parents weren’t Christians. My father died, and that led me to spend many years in hard life. My mother was a religious and all my family too. At some time when I was coming home, I prayed and by God’s Grace my mother accepted Jesus in a personal manner into her life and she was baptized in mass water.
When I was done with High School, I knew that God had called me in service and so I went and joined a bible school where I graduated after four years. During this time, it is when I received a word from God while praying; and He said, “Do you remember where you have been in life of lack and need of almost everything in life? Look at your community and give it back to the needy children.” That’s when I prayed with my wife and we started an orphanage with 10 children and we ended up living with more than 20 children at our home and supporting others from their homes.
Through help of a friend by the Grace of God we were able to extend our home and we built extra rooms for the children. Smiles, cries and the Lord has been wonderfuly faithful.
We have a Hurt to Hope orphans school that is at primary level and it is in need of extending our classrooms as per the ministry of Education requirements. Through God’s Grace we have two classes that we extend from where the children spend their night and also which we have made demarcations for our orphans to have a room for study, one more class is under construction but we need three more for this year’s curriculum. The Government has been on our neck to build more classes. They do not appreciate the orphans learning school from where they sleep.
But, the Hurt to Hope needs keeps on growing daily. The need for water has been a challenge, we have insufficient water supply from the community, so we need to dig a borehole for water reservation. We have a water tank around the orphanage to harvest rain water, but unfortunately it hasn’t been enough for us.
There’s a lot that’s required to be done around here, but we pray the Lord to do according to his will.
We have a lot to say about what our God has done and what we expect Him to do for the Hurt to Hope Orphans in Nairobi, above all, Glory be to God.
It has been a privilege for me to be a minister of the gospel, a pastor and with a church congregation. Also, to go to high schools to preach to the teenagers and youth’s, and it has been a honor to God, many have accepted Jesus Christ in their lives as personal savior. I have also been doing street gospel outreaches and have seen many people bring their souls to Jesus Christ through many prayers that we have prayed. Thank you for all of your support, prayers and help. We so grateful to you and everyone who has taken his/her time to extend a hand of help to Hurt to Hope oprhans!
God Bless You!
Jonas kilonzi
