Yellow Rhino Ministries

Yellow Rhino Ministries YRM ministers with love to the needs of orphans and children living in extreme poverty.

Spring break YRM edition! This school break is a long one due to Easter - 28 days! With the students returning to school...
05/01/2026

Spring break YRM edition! This school break is a long one due to Easter - 28 days! With the students returning to school this week, we wanted to share a few of the highlights:

- 15 people in the house; which means shopping for and preparing a lot of meals. 3 meals times 15 people = 45 meals per day, 45 meals times 28 days means 1,260 meals served!
- 420 smokies (breakfast sausages) and eggs will be consumed
- 140+ chapati (flat bread) made and consumed
- Over 500 avocados picked
- 5 vegetables planted: tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, peppers, spinach, and bush beans
- 3 trips to the Farmers’ Market
- 2 wisdom teeth removed
- 2 new pairs of eye glasses (no more squinting and headaches, yay!)
- 1 birthday and 1 really big party with 42 guests
- 3 birthday cakes: 1 for school, one for the family party, and one for the big party
- 452 books were scanned and recorded in our new library system, the kids loved helping with this!
- 2 fun excursions, one to the movies with a scavenger hunt after and one to the trampoline park!
- 1 power outage with ice cream because Papa forgot to pay the bill (oops!)
- 2 water tank refills needed

Phew, we are tired! And that doesn't include the home work done, art projects, stories read, games played, and prayers offered. We are so thankful for all of your support while we answer God's calling serving these students and their families.
💛🦏

Putting our Big Five in Practice! The rocking chairs and our new Rocking Station help with trauma relaxation/decompressi...
03/27/2026

Putting our Big Five in Practice! The rocking chairs and our new Rocking Station help with trauma relaxation/decompression and sensory processing issues. And a bonus...between two windows will get a good cross-breeze on hot days!

As a side note, have you ever received a furniture delivery by motorbike (or boda-boda, as they call them in Kenya)? Hand made in 3 days and delivered in style!

A very special student spotlight! This young man's how it started/how it's going is an amazing story of how much God can...
02/26/2026

A very special student spotlight! This young man's how it started/how it's going is an amazing story of how much God can and is doing through Yellow Rhino Ministries.

He joined YRM at the age of 11, during a time of significant grief and loss in his life. With our support and a lot of hard work his grades earned him a spot as the youngest student to attend the Safari Retreat in December 2023.

The end of 2024, high junior year of high school, saw a low point in his grades after more grief and loss and a school that served more as negative influence than support. Mama Chris made the decision to have him repeat that school year, as he was on the younger side of the grade age-wise, and because she knew with better support he could do much better. The new school however saw much of the same problems, to the point that we pulled him out and placed him in a new school part-way through 2025; this is very rare and very difficult to do in Kenya (especially as Mama and Papa were in the US at the transition time!)

By the end of the year his grades were much improved, and he was even one of the highest in his class. This school is well known and respected, and he has been able to thrive in a much more positive environment.

Well Term 1 2026 has now concluded, and his report card was definitely fridge magnet worthy! From a D average at his old school, he now has an A- average! On top of that, he is 1st out of his his unit of 44 students, and 3rd out of 144. AMAZING!

To celebrate (and as an early birthday gift) he was all smiles when he opened up his brand new pair of headphones. It is very rare to find him not listening to music, so we are sure these will become a near permanent fixture on his head while at home.

Way to go! Everyone at YRM is so proud of you! and we are sure you will continue to work hard while STANDING FIRM in your faith and SHINING BRIGHT with the light of Christ!

Our kids came home H-U-N-G-R-Y, lol, so we made “smocha” for lunch or our version of it - a smokie (Kenyan sausage) with...
02/23/2026

Our kids came home H-U-N-G-R-Y, lol, so we made “smocha” for lunch or our version of it - a smokie (Kenyan sausage) with avocado salad (guacamole,) an optional fried egg, some salsa for a little kick all tucked into a wrap (instead of the traditional chapati.) They loved it! 💛🦏

Tatu knows that Swahili lessons usually happen on Fridays, but he also missed Valentine's day on Saturday so thought he ...
02/17/2026

Tatu knows that Swahili lessons usually happen on Fridays, but he also missed Valentine's day on Saturday so thought he would just split the difference!

Valentine's Day isn't celebrated quite as widely in Kenya as it is in the states, but love of course is universal! It is starting to become more and more prevalent though, check out the mall decorations!

So next time you want to tell someone you love them, try saying it in Swahili - Nakupenda! (naa-koo-pen-duh)

Tatu "nakupendas" all of you! (and yes, he knows that is not the correct grammar, but it is fun to say!)

How it started / how it's going (2019 / 2026)3 or our younger students from early in YRM days and the first day of schoo...
01/13/2026

How it started / how it's going (2019 / 2026)

3 or our younger students from early in YRM days and the first day of school 2026 (and don't worry, all 3 had shoes on when they left the house!)

The back-to-school countdown is almost up for the YRM kids! 17 go back today, with more returning later this week. Thank...
01/06/2026

The back-to-school countdown is almost up for the YRM kids!

17 go back today, with more returning later this week. Thank you to everyone who donated to our shoe fund! It's been a busy few days shopping and preparing but we've gotten it done!

12/31/2025

2025 by the numbers:
💛 30 sponsored students grade 2 through grade 12
💛 8 trade school and university students
💛 3 soccer balls busted
💛8 types of creatures discovered in or around the YRM house (a chameleon, a white frog, a white cat in the kitchen, birds, salamanders, a mouse who ate our bread, little spiders and sugar ants)
💛 900 smokies (sausages) eaten
💛 3 calls for the plumber to come
💛 12 loaves of banana bread made and consumed (with bananas from our yard!)
💛 12 beds for kids in the house and 3 couches for overnight college student visits
💛 27 pairs of school shoes need to be purchased

12/15/2025

The Twelve Days of Christmas...YRM style!

Starting (in alphabetical order):
Abigael, Aisha, Amos, David, Dyson, Grace, Joyce, Mary, Mitchelle, Ramon, Salma, and Shakur

And featuring Robi the dog (you might hear Mama Chris a little from behind the camera too!)

If you haven't done so yet, please send your school fees, as the 2026 school year is just around the corner! If you aren't a sponsor yet, what are you waiting for? We are always looking for new sponsors and a packed house means your end-of-year donations will be put to good use.

Yellow Rhino has one more university graduate to add to our list! With a major in Office Administration, her future is b...
12/09/2025

Yellow Rhino has one more university graduate to add to our list! With a major in Office Administration, her future is bright thanks to support from all of you. Mama even got to attend the ceremony!

ConGRADulations!

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15215 Aullcin Court
Charlotte, NC
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