I watched Mully, an inspiring, beautiful movie. Charles Mully’s story is an example of Persistence, a Definite Major Purpose driven by a vision, a Positive Mental Attitude and a Mastermind Alliance in action in real life.

The movie follows Charles Mully being abandoned as a 6-year child living in a remote village without any resources. He is refused him food until finally, some woman feeds him.

He is a beggar, and was taken in to a private home by a woman through the kindness of her heart. He learned so much from her, her generous spirit caring for him, teaching him helping, him to grow.

He went from working in the fields to getting promoted to manager and eventually going out on his own. He had a growth mindset and a positive mental attitude.

He saw people needed transportation, so he provided it using a small bus as a cab. His love for people was evident in the way he treated his passengers, the way they responded to him, was heartwarming to me.

Before too long the single cab grew into a fleet of buses. The film depicts him, branching out into other industries and became a very wealthy man. He marries and has eight children who lived a life of ease and privilege.

Then, one day as he was driving along, he heard a voice that told him that what he needed to do was care for others. He went home and told his family that he was closing his businesses and would work no more.

He had calling to rescue of abandoned and homeless orphans, his DMP.

He started by bringing four home and he kept rescuing more and more children. His children protested, thought he was crazy and resented what he was doing, but he was not to be deterred.

Through it, all his wife was supportive and loving of all the children he brings home. Her partnership, which was deep and supportive, was a Mastermind Alliance

Eventually his house was overwhelmed by them so he built quarters for them on his property and eventually they had to move to another part of Kenya so they could keep rescuing the children.

We see that the area that they’ve moved into has no water, very little natural resources and yet they create a complex making the bricks by hand. The need for water becomes dire and he has a vision of where there is water.

They walk to the spot that he sees, and they dig and dig and it looks like they’re never going to strike water. They urge him to give up, but he persists and he trusts his vision.

Then, with the next blow they strike water and the dry hole becomes filled with water. It’s like watching Scroll III (The Greatest Salesman in the World) in action in real life. They persist until they succeed. The entire movie is about persisting until they succeed.

They build drill wells, make hydroponic greenhouses, plant trees. They completely transform an area that was desolate.

The transformation of the orphans from street children to the educated, successful, caring people you see at the end of the movie is breathtaking. The transformation and the journey of his biological children is also compelling and heartwarming.

Mully is a documentary with Charles Mully and his wife Esther playing themselves and also narrated by his biological children.

His nonprofit is called Mully Children’s Family (MCF). By the end of the movie, they’ve rescued and rebuilt the lives of over 10,000 children. He has said to have created the world’s largest family and that was just the start.

Since the end of the movie, MCF has grown to have eleven (11) campuses and more than 8,000 children and youths currently in its centers in Machakos, Kitale, Kilifi, Lodwar, Malindi, Dares Salaam, and Ukerewe in Tanzania.

MCF also engages in environmental conservation, community development, healthcare services, sustainable farming, and advocacy activities, among other interventions.

Prof. Mully and his wife, Esther Nthenya, have taken in more than 35,000 abandoned children and youths as their own, providing them with a loving family and a bright future over the last 35 years.