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En-Gedi Children’s Home October 2025 Update

En-Gedi Children’s Home - October 2025 Update

Our dear friends and co-workers in the Lord: we rejoice in the Lord our God, who created us and who daily sustain us. We have all been well, healthy and happy. Through all of you who pray for us, support us and those of you who are able to visit us, we have been nourished physically, spiritually, emotionally and socially. It’s because of your friendship, adorned with our God’s love and grace that we have been well. Despite their limitations, our children are able to draw from us love, joy and family unity here at En-Gedi Home. Thank you for being one with us in this joy “for we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Eph2:10).

We thank God that En-Gedi Home has continued to be a model for best practices in the support and care for children with special needs. We have many families and groups of people who have visited us the recently and in the past months and their feedback to us affirms this our vision.

We continue to trust God for our future expansion of En-Gedi Home. I have met many families with challenged children, who though given some care, are often left alone in seclusion and indoors as parents go away in search of their daily bread and other childen go to school. I have also been told of abuse of some of those severely challenged children by those entrusted to care for them. Keep with us in prayer that the land next to En-Gedi that we want to purchase will be freed for this planned expansion. But also believe with me that God’s timing is the right time – He leads – I follow.

Every month that we have a child’s birthdate, we cerebrate their birthdays even though most of them do not figure anything. We share a cake and say a prayer of thanks to God for giving that child another year of life. Our call is to let them fully enjoy their God-given lives until they cross over into heaven or until our Lord Jesus comes back. This month of October, we have birthdays for 4 boys and only 1 can decifer something. Regardless, they all bear God’s image.

In July, we hosted high school students and some youth leaders/parents from Prinsburg and Willmar, MN. The group worshipped with us one Sunday morning in my PCEA Church, among the many adventures we undertook together. We love visitors.
We love you and value your partnership in this ministry. May God keep us connected in serving Him, for His own glory and honor.

Margaret Njuguna
Founder/Director
En-Gedi Children’s Home
0710-395 756

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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