Mr. Kibunja would want "Praise God, everything I have comes from Him!" to be the first thing written about him.

Mr. Kibunja was a Nairobi orphan, a street person. As a street person, Habel had nothing. He was wandering without a home.

One day he saw some people singing and being happy coming from a tent. He walked over and found them to be a Christian group. Through this introduction, he eventually came to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior. But still, he was missing the five things in his life. Finding that he still had nothing to live for, Habel decided to kill himself. He walked to a bridge and stood on the edge. He watched the brown water going under him. There were people walking past him on the bridge, yet no one spoke to him, noticed him, or knew he wanted to kill himself. As he prepared to jump, he heard a voice telling, "Don't jump, I will take care of you." Yet the Voice was not from the people around him, "It was the voice of the Lord." He knew this to be so and he walked on willing to trust that God would take care of him. Later, he told God of the five things he did not have in his life. He holds up his huge fist and says, "I was missing 5 things in my life. I had no parents. I had no job. I had no land of my own. I had no education and I had no family." With each item listed he holds up an additional finger until his immense hand is fully stretched out.

He started to attended church and found that within his new church, were older couples. One of these couples came to accept and help him as their son as Habel to accept them as his new parents.

He now holds up one finger and says" Praise the Lord, I now had parents."

But he still had no job. And the index finger again points up, but this time towards heaven. "You, Jesus, you were a carpenter. Can you teach me to be a carpenter like you, too." And He did.

He now holds up two fingers and says," Praise God, I now had parents and He made me a carpenter."

Through his work, he was able to learn of some land that was being sold at a price low enough for him to afford, and he purchased it. Land that now has such a high price that people wonder how he could ever afford it.

The third finger comes up. "Praise God, He gave me land of my own!"

As for his education, he learned to read and write through the Bible. "I now have Bible learning, that is better than a school's education," with a fourth finger coming up.

Habel's shop is located in Nairobi. The store front is probably 75 feet across. The front is full of his furniture; beds, chairs, pews, a pulpit, a baptismal font, and much other furniture for home and church.

The middle area is open air, where the raw wood is stored. Huge piles of wood are of different types for different grain effects and uses.

The actual woodworking shop is in the back, again under a roof, yet open to the central yard. Here, the men who work for Habel use the machinery to make the furniture.

Habel is a walking testimony to the life changing power of Jesus Christ. He openly and freely shares his life with anyone, telling them how Jesus changed his life and gave him everything he has. And always, always on his lips is Praise for our Lord!

"Praise the Lord!" would be the last sentence he would want me to write!

Praise the Lord!