Updates from our trips to Kenya.
We arrived at the Lord’s Servants Home Saturday about lunchtime after 3 days of travel….and with 2 of the 5 bags we started. The others are promised Sunday. All is good, the kids are great.
Sweet Diana
All out play
Boys playing marbles
A few views of Kenya from our single engine flight to Kitale…
John and I leave on Wednesday to begin what is the 15th separate trip to support Mission Servants Ministry’s orphanages in Kenya and Uganda since 2006. John and I will spend 2 weeks at Lord’s Servant Home in Kenya then travel to Stream of Hope Home in Uganda, meeting Kathy and Darlene. They are making their first trip but were instrumental in the founding of MSM’s involvement with SOH.
I have not been to LSH in over a year. I missed these guys. We have lots of projects to complete and organizational plans to implement. Please keep looking out for my blog posts and keep us in your prayers.
Our time at the Stream of Hope Home was only 6 days but they were very full. The kids are great. Most of the 15 member team is home now but some of us are still traveling. More updates to follow. Here are a few key accomplishments…
Hired a new Matron couple to live at the SOH home to mentor the kids and care for them. This is Pastor Moses, wife Beatrice and son Samuel. They have 10 children, some joining them at the home. Moses has been involved as a volunteer for roughly 3 years at significant personal sacrifice as a calling. This is a blessing all around.
We signed a contract to build a new Kitchen and Dining Hall. This building will be similar to the one we built in Kenya a few years ago. It will be used for many things including church service and community meetings. It will be a life changer in bad weather.
Kathy and I are in route to the Stream of Hope home and will meet up with the team coming from Kenya on Saturday.
The 13 people at The Lord’s Servants Home are doing well with the projects and work that we planned. Many of them did battle illness though the week but are all well today. Several bags were also lost for 5 days, hampering progress and spirits. All is good now.
They have implemented lights, plumbing, and cabinetry in the new Guest House, harvested honey, spent a lot of time with the kids, and worked out organizational changes and needed procedures with pastor Moses and the board members.
The 13 team members in Kenya moved over 1500 pounds of goods from the US. Kathy and I have roughly 300 pounds ourselves which include Bibles, books, solar lighting supplies, tools, and child gifts.
Thank you for your continued prayers. I’ll post more when I can.
Mission Servants has a large and ambitious trip about to commence to serve at the LSH home in Kenya and the SOH home in Uganda. 15 members will leave the US in 3 teams from 3 different places and coordinate in Africa. One team working exclusively at LSH, one exclusively at SOH, and one team working at LSH then traveling to SOH. This is the 15th Mission Servant Ministry trip and a complicated one so we are requesting constant prayer for safety, logistics, and planning wisdom. The first team leaves on January 17th, the 2nd and 3rd teams on the 22nd and 29th.
We have a number of plans besides connecting with and loving on the 106 children at the two homes, 87 kids at the Lord’s Servants Academy, almost 20 workers at all the facilities, and hundreds of people at 4 affiliated churches. We are bringing almost 2,000 pounds of tools, books, sewing machines, Bibles, clothing, lighting components, balls, and goodies. In Nairobi before driving to the LSH in western Kenya, tools and supplies to improve the homes will be purchased.
Our big projects include: Completing the living touches to the LSH Guest House (lighting, plumbing, cabinetry, curtains) which will allow longer term mission trips and missionary stays. Installing lighting, curtains, and shelving in the new SOH Boys Dorm. Launch the project for the new SOH Kitchen/Dining Hall/Utility building. Numerous smaller projects to improve the facilities and lives of the kids will be done at all facilities. Medical checking and eye exams will be provided.
It will be exciting. Please look out for our blog and Facebook posts. Thank you for your prayers and support!
Some of the Kids in their Christmas clothes at LSH
Happy kids and their new dorm building at SOH
Mission Servants Ministry 
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