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Kids Learn To Care
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Children whose parents work abroad often attend private schools, reside in safely guarded compounds and live a life sheltered from the world around them. But when your parents are United Methodist missionaries living in a country where poverty and suffering is the norm, you’re bound to experience life differently. |
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Locator: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Nicholas Kithinji / United Methodist Missionary: “A lot of the people who are living here basically are living below the poverty line and we realize, as a church, it is important to reach out and interact with the people to know their needs and to fellowship with them in their circumstances.”
Jeanette / 9-year-old Missionary: “Yes, I am really glad I came.”
Class is in session for 4-year-old Nicole and 8-year-old Jeanette.
Nicholas Kithinji / United Methodist Missionary: “I do bring my children to these places because it is important for them to realize how other communities live and to be able to understand them better.”
Today, life is the lesson, and Mom and Dad are teaching it.
Nicholas Kithinji / United Methodist Missionary: “I have come to realize that it is not wise to shield my children from the realities of the world.”
Mom and Dad are United Methodist missionaries from Kenya, assigned to Cambodia.
Jeanette: “I’ve never seem something like this in my country, so I wanted to experience how people live here in Cambodia.”
Esther Gitobu / United Methodist Missionary: “I think it’s good for them to see what other people are going through.”
Even at their age, Nicole and Jeanette have something to offer the children of this community…even if Nicole doesn’t realize it.
Esther Gitobu: “They want to touch their skin. I think they want to know if they are the same, so they want to feel.”
Nicholas Kithinji: “We have chosen, as missionaries, to try and educate our children as early as we can, and we hope to make them grow up as better balanced individuals.”
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In addition to Cambodia, the missionary family has lived and worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Zambia.