Source: ASSIST News Service, May 22, 2015<\/p>\n
Unlike Mother Teresa, who came from poverty and took a vow of poverty, Mama Maggie came from wealth. And during an encounter when she was a successful marketing executive, connected with a child in the garbage slums\u2014a famous district of Cairo that has been mostly neglected.<\/p>\n
She eventually gave up her marketing career and started a ministry called Stephen\u2019s Children<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMany times when the kids are asked what do you want to do when you grow up, they\u2019ve really never thought that far in advance. And some of the kids, can you believe, have never been called by their name by anyone,\u201d [author Marty] Makary said.<\/p>\n Mama Maggie\u2019s ministry teaches the children a trade like shoe and clothing manufacturing\u2014marketable skills for earning money and serving others, whether in the garbage slums, or elsewhere.<\/p>\n Makary said they\u2019re not talking about getting out of the garbage district.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re talking about serving the garbage district. And sure enough, a good number of the full time staff were kids in the ministry themselves, have graduated and want to give back,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019ve met doctors in the clinics over there and they\u2019re working for almost no money.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a>. Note that seven of the 21 Egyptian Christians killed by ISIS in Libya last February were involved with Mama Maggie\u2019s ministry. See Makary\u2019s book, Mama Maggie: The Untold Story of One Woman\u2019s Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt\u2019s Garbage Slums<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also Retirees Volunteer, Impact World for Christ<\/a> (IMB Commission Stories).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: ASSIST News Service, May 22, 2015 Unlike Mother Teresa, who came from poverty and took a vow of poverty, Mama Maggie came from wealth. And during an encounter when she was a successful marketing executive, connected with a child in the garbage slums\u2014a famous district of Cairo that has been mostly neglected. She eventually … Continue reading EGYPT: \u201cGarbage Kids\u201d Dream Big<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}