Mama Susan was a pioneer mother/caregiver at Rafiki Village Kenya. She took care of 13 boys and raised them well. Her oldest Rafiki son had many issues due to the fact that he was brought to Rafiki at the age of five. To hear him speak about Mama Susan as the "best mother" who was "a kind woman, who loved us"; and his memories of "Mom singing lullabies for us to sleep" and how she "taught us to read the Bible and pray"; and to see him as a man carrying his mom's coffin to the grave, was a testimony to her work and prayers for her children at Rafiki.
What I remember about Mama Susan was her love of singing and her method of doing devotions with her children. On a devotion about how Elijah was fed by ravens during a famine, she told the children to imagine that the ravens were flying into the king's palace (where there was plenty of food) and taking the bread and meat off the king's table and carrying it to Elijah in the desert. She asked the children if they could see the ravens doing that; and they could.
Mama Susan is resting in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom she loved. She worked tirelessly for Him in her calling as a Rafiki Mom and we can begin to see the fruit of her labor even today. Please pray for the boys who have lost the only mother they have ever known.
