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En-Gedi Children’s Home July 2025 update

To all our brothers and sisters in faith who, together serve with us in ways that God has allowed us to: this update informs you on our current affairs highlighting some changes that have happened in the recent past.

First, glory and honor goes to our Lord God for keeping us all well and in His care; for keeping us connected in sharing His love with our special needs children. Our staff and children have remained healthy, though some of the children have been degenerating quite fast. Guided by our motto “We do our best and God does the rest” , we give our best to our children and we are assured that even when they go to rest with Jesus, they take a good report.

Last week, Jessicah, one of our children went to be with the Lord. Medics had predicted that Jessical would only live to be seven or eight years, but she lived to be fifteen years and one month. May God rest her soul in eternal peace, till then. During the month of May, we were blessed by visits from friends in Colorado, Michigan,a Calvin University class and a team from Hope Mobility/Hope for Africa US & Kenya that donated wheelchairs to our children and adjusted many that needed adjustmanent. We give
God all the honor and glory for connecting us with His servants in different parts of the world.

While in Grand Rapids in early June, I met with Set Free Ministries, the agency that has helped us with our north America donations since we started En-Gedi Children’s Home in mid 2014. SFM has continued to grow both in the US and internationally and have several development projects in many countries in the world. As a result, they wanted me to find another 501(c)(3) organization that would help us in the same way they did for about 10 years. May God bless SFM for being faithful and very efficient.

God has given us another agency: FRIENDS OF THE GREAT COMMISSION. From now going ahead, please follow the instructions below to continue to support En-Gedi Children’s Home. Set Free Ministries will continue to receive and wire funds sent to them – for us, until all of our supporters have migrated to the FRIENDS OF THE GREAT COMMISSION.

To give to En-Gedi:
Write a check payable to FRIENDS OF THE GREAT COMMISSION, and on the MEMO
line, write: EN-GEDI, or FUND#: F1687.
Send the check to:
FGC LOCKBOX
P.O. Box 739336
Dallas, TX 75373-9336
Toll Free Donations Line 1-855-573-8483
Email donations-us@thegc.org
You will receive a tax receipt from FGC.
Online giving: Please follow this link to give online to En-Gedi Children’s Home
https://thegc.org/us/projects/en-gedi-childrens-home

God’s blessings to you all,
Margaret Njuguna Founder/Director
elgedi

I thank God for many of you who hosted me and helped me in different ways while I was visiting the US. May God reward you all in His special ways. Please continue to pray for our planned expansion of En-Gedi Home. The process to buy the land next to En-Gedi is slow, but I have no doubt that it will come through. Pray for one of my staff who have been completely disowned by her family. We rescued her from committing suicide and her story is a sad one. If interested in finding out how you can help her, please let me know.

https://www.en-gedichildrenwithhope.org

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En-Gedi Children’s Home March 2025 Pictorial Update

Dear friends and co-workers in Christ Jesus,
Our Lord God saw us successfully through the year 2024 and the 1st quarter of 2025 is almost gone, and our God is with us every step of the way. I believe that you, like us, have the same testimony.

We continue to have the joy of serving our children – now 26, and sharing God’s love with them. We get encouraged in many ways and one of them is this Pope Francis’ quote: “Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves.

Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other. No
matter how difficult it is…life is good when you are happy; but much better when others are happy
because of you”.

Together, we continue to bring a lot of joy to God’s special children of En-Gedi Home. Though most are not able to say a word, many are able to smile as an expression of their joy.

Your prayers, your financial and material support, your visits and your thoughts bring joy and encouragement to all of us and definitely to God who orders our lives. May you all experience happiness and joy in serving with us.

Praises and prayer requests: Thank God with us for his provisions; for good health of our children and staff and for the angels watching and guarding us always. Thank God that after a long wait, we will now be able to purchase the land adjacent to us for En-Gedi’s expansion.


Please continue to pray with us for God’s favor towards renewal of our income tax exemption certificate. Also pray that the new government health insurance will have a provision for health
cover for children in Children’s’ homes. Pray for safe travels for me in the coming months.

I love you all,
Margaret Njuguna Founder/Director
elgedi

Let’s keep trusting our God for our everyday lives.

“Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken, but endures forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forevermore”. Psalms 125:1&2

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En-Gedi Children’s Home June 2024 Newsletter

Receive warm greetings our dear friends and partners in ministry. Our caring and loving God has been with us, protecting us and providing for our needs. Our last newsletter was in March just before the heavy rains, flooding and the devastation that it caused. I am grateful to God because He kept us all safe even as many people and property perished in the floods. With washed away gravel roads, we
had several days we could not drive in or out of En-Gedi. Thankfully, we keep enough supplies for a few weeks and we could also walk back & forth from where vehicles could reach. All this time, our very delicate children and the caregivers remained super healthy. Our God is indeed faithful and always close to us. Thank you for your prayers and your messages checking on us.

Our plans are to continue to rescue severely disabled children and give them a home full of love and care. Staying with these children has enlightened us about challenges parents, especially mothers, go through in communities filled with stigma and retrogressive beliefs related to disabilities in children. We have plans to expand the “kids” building and put up a Wing B where we will transfer the older children, especially those able to decipher something. When I answer to the call to help a child, I usually bring them to the hospital for assessment, and often, I am often told that they won’t live long, but, the breath of God belongs to Him alone and only Him who knows how long each of the kids will live. Our children are living far beyond the Doctor’s prescribed lifespan and there is now need for another living room. Soon,we will embark on that project.

I appreciate each one of you for being partners with me. I thank God that when He talks to us, we hear his voice and we work together for His glory. May God richly bless you all and may He keep us connected in serving Him while we have the opportunity.

Please pray with us for continued good health of all our children and staff; pray that En-Gedi continues to be an inspiration to many as they witness God’s love and care for children with very special needs.

Thank God for giving us a very supportive
family, both locally and internationally.

I love you all,
Margaret Njuguna Founder/Director
elgedi
Website: https//www.en-gedichildrenwithhope.org

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ” Col. 3:23 & 24

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En-Gedi Children’s Home March 2024 Pictorial update

Our dear friends and co-workers in the Lord’s ministry: receive warm greetings from all of us at En-Gedi Children’s Home.
We cerebrated our Christmas time with a Christmas party where our children participated in cutting and eating a Christmas cake, and all the staff enjoying chef-made luncheon and each taking away a bag full of goodies. Many families, organized groups, Corporate CSR teams
visited us during the Christmas month and made our Christmas a very lively and enjoyable month. Many others who support this ministry daily, weekly, monthly, and periodically were faithful with their support and because of all of you, we have not lacked. God has used you to keep His ministry going. Thank you all for allowing God to use you in His work.

And just before closing into this New Year, we hosted 13 students and 4 adults from south West Minnesota for almost two weeks. They had told me when I visited them earlier in the year that they would come and help us to love God’s children; and they did it so well.

Early February, we also received four ladies from Edgerton, MN. Three of them had visited us couple times before and after two weeks together, they said they would come again.

“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied
grace” (1 Peter 4:10). “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving
the Lord Christ” (Col. 3:23-24)
Let’s remain connected to our God in our service to his people. Once again, thank you for
your continued support. May God bless you all and keep you in His care.

Margaret Njuguna
Founder/Director – En-Gedi Children’s Home
P O Box 763-00204, ATHI RIVER, Kenya
Phone: 0710-395-756; 0733-972 027 megnjuguna@gmail.com
Website: https//www.en-gedichildrenwithhope.org

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EN-GEDI CHILDREN’S HOME SEPTEMBER 2023 NEWSLETTER

My dear friends and co-workers in the Lord: I do trust that you are all well and enjoying each day the Lord gives you to live. We are grateful to God that all the 25 special children are well and though so limited in their abilities, are all joyfully responding to the love and care that we – together with you all, continue to give them. My biggest joy and encouragement is to see these children smiling, and trying so hard to test their abilities by trying to make movements and to make sounds.
“If anyone serves, he/she should do it with the strength God provides so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever – Amen” 1 Peter 4:11b.

In the last few months, we have hosted several families and groups of people who came for the first time. Many of them had not seen anything like En-Gedi before and some were overcome by emotions seeing severely disabled children healthy, happy and being cared for in a state of the art facility.Testimonies given here affirm the vision of our Home, which states that En-Gedi is, and will continue to be a model for best practices in support and care for children with special needs.

The last couple months we have seen God at work in healing some of the children who had health issues – some which we could not understand and others that we knew to rush to the hospital. One evening,
we went to 4 different health facilities in our town trying to get help for one of our children, but none ofthe facilities was able to fully attend to our child. Finally, I told God to take over and went back home. God used the First Aid pill that I gave to the child and he recovered overnight. Our God is able and always present with us. 

One of my challenges continue to be saying “no” to taking in more children. To many calls to go help out, I painfully refuse to go because I just cannot take them all in. I have to be able to adequately provide for those that I take in. In dire need though, I bow down and rescue one more. Our 25th child is a 2-year-old girl with hydrocephalus who joined the En-Gedi family a couple months ago.

I do not have enough words to thank you all, but I know how to talk to God and my prayer is that God rewards you in His own special way according to His word. Together, we not only give these children the opportunity to live out their full lives, to exploit all possible potentials within them, but we also educate the community on the value of life and how to love and care for special children. If you are one of the many anonymous supporters, God knows you by name and I trust He will bless you in his own way.

Praises and prayer requests:

Praise God for His continued presence with us and His provisions, especially during this hard economic season. Pray that we all remain healthy and at peace. Let’s together pray for the many families struggling to care for disabled children and other relatives in our communities. In a country where we have very limited institutions for people with severe disabilities the struggle is real.

God’s blessings to you all.

Margaret Njuguna

Founder/Director

Phone # +254-710-395 756

megnjuguna@gmail.com
Https://www.en-gedichildrenwithhope.org