Source: World Vision, October 20, 2017<\/p>\n
For centuries, the Maasai traveled with their cattle along the Great Rift Valley in Kenya and Tanzania. Families were polygamous\u2014men had many wives and kids. Children rarely went to school, instead helping their parents take care of animals and doing chores around the house.<\/p>\n
This is the world into which Jackson Ole Sapit, 53, was born\u2014with one father and 11 mothers. He\u2019s not sure how many siblings he has but guesses more than 50. Jackson\u2019s father died when he was young, and his mother\u2014his father\u2019s seventh wife\u2014and her three children were chased away from the family home by shrewd older brothers who understood the value of land. Jackson\u2019s mother and her children became destitute.<\/p>\n
Maasai parents didn\u2019t believe in education, as boys were to herd cows, and girls worked around the house. But in 1973, Jackson and the other Maasai boys in his village were forced to attend [school]. There, he began to hear about Jesus. \u201cOne of the songs [they sang],\u201d he says, \u201cwas \u2018More About Jesus.\u2019\u201d But he thought they were singing \u201cmoo\u201d instead of \u201cmore.\u201d He says, \u201cI wondered, \u2018Are they singing about cows?\u2019\u201d This was something he could relate to as a herder; his curiosity was piqued.<\/p>\n
The next year, Jackson became sponsored through World Vision.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a> to hear how this Maasai herder saw God change his life and became a leader to 5 million Anglicans in Kenya and read other World Vision stories from the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: World Vision, October 20, 2017 For centuries, the Maasai traveled with their cattle along the Great Rift Valley in Kenya and Tanzania. Families were polygamous\u2014men had many wives and kids. Children rarely went to school, instead helping their parents take care of animals and doing chores around the house. This is the world into … Continue reading KENYA: Former Sponsored Child Now Archbishop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-7500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500","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=7500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}