March 1, 2013

Video from our visit to LSH in Kenya

Tony and Terri put this video together of our trip to The Lord’s Servants Home in Kitale, Kenya a few weeks ago. They did a great job with illustrating how God was working through our projects and time there. The water well and playground project completion was a huge blessing to the home as well as the whole community. Our time connecting with the kids and sharing with the churches was a blessing to us. The kids and people are so full of life as you can see….

Click here to the video on YouTube.

Posted in Updates From Kenya
Tagged 2013 Trip, Kenyan People, Lord's Servants Home, mission trip, Projects

March 1, 2013

Prayer Request: Peaceful Election in Kenya

On Monday, March 4th, Kenya will hold their general elections. During the last election, 5 years ago, controversy sparked national violence along tribal lines. Over 1,000 people were murdered during the tribe on tribe violence and over 500,000 people were driven from their homes, many farms burned, and most of them permanently displaced and forced into refugee camps. I visited Kenya roughly 1 month after this in 2008. It was tragic that one of Africa’s best and most stable countries fell apart and turned on itself, compounding the existing tragedies of HIV/AIDS, drought, famine, and poverty, among others such as poor education, high unemployment, over population, growing numbers of orphans, poor infrastructure, and insufficient health care.

I was going to include some links but I suggest you simply google: kenyan elections. You will have many choices to learn about the circumstances after the last election and the complicated issues revolving around this election.

Please join me in prayer that democracy prevails and peace is kept. Pray that the leadership in Kenya are convicted to serving her people and resolving the heartbreaking issues plaguing Kenya.

Posted in Prayers, Updates From Kenya
Tagged 2013, Elections, Kenyan People

February 19, 2013

We’re Home! Incredible Trip!!! ….Post #11

We arrived home on Saturday afternoon and share the view that we had much more than a great trip. We were blessed to be exactly where and do exactly what we were supposed to. It is hard to explain in a few words just how we know that things could never have happened like they did under our control so all I’ll add to this brief summary and few photos for now is PRAISE GOD!

We did witness God’s will in making a new well come into completed existence despite our belief that it was not possible to even start it.

We did witness God’s provision by making it possible that all the right people, organizations, equipment, supplies, skills, time, funds, weather, and timing was just right to make this large project get completed in less than 2 weeks.

We saw several other projects come to fruition to support the home and even harvested honey from the hives started last year. Terri was the right person at the right time to fill in for an absent Nursery School teacher and Dorothy who just had a baby.

We witnessed the power of Jesus’ name in seeing people …. praise Him in faith and joy while in desperate situations we couldn’t imagine before, love one another in a selfless way, dedicate themselves to spreading the Good News of Salvation, give their lives to Him and be baptised, and see a demon cast out of a young teenaged girl.

We witnessed God’s compassion by placing us in the right place to provide help with food, medicine, emergency dental service, love, and encouragement. We received His joy by being His hands and feet!!!!! God brought Dorothy’s daughter, baby Stephanie into the world while we were there.

Thank you for your prayers, support, and encouragement. More to come……

Completed well water project at the LSH and Liyavo community

This is the first Merry Go Round in the area that I know of…

That look says it all!!!

Terri and here class of kids who could not understand a word she said :-) but loved her time.

Terri and her class of kids that could not understand a word she said but did understand her love and time.

Worshiping with Pastor Isa’s church in Uganda

Fetching wash water with the children at the orphanage in Uganda...

Kids from Pastor Isa’s orphanage in Uganda fetching wash water

It is amazing the help people crave that we just take for granted.

Was it the bandaid or the hug Noah got that made it all better?

Posted in Projects, Updates From Kenya
Tagged 2013 Trip, Lord's Servants Academy, Lord's Servants Home, Nursery School, Ugandan People

February 13, 2013

Jambo, Makote Yevasewe, Shalom/Salama…Post #10

It has been a few days since posting. Greg and I have been on the move. Here is brief summary…
* Left the Lord’s Servants Home Friday with all our projects done!
* Drove to Malaba, Kenya and had a conference for a seminar that is training Pastors to reach out to the Teso people group in western Kenya. The Teso are relatively unreached.
* Drove into Uganda to visit the Stream of Hope for the African Child ministry orphanage and church. We brought medicine and treated for worms, bought school supplies so they could start going to school, bought about 2 weeks of food, and spoke in the church.
* Arrived in Jerusalem after over 30 hours of traveling on Tuesday for a 3 day visit.
* Jerusalem is incredible. We are staying in a 400 yr. old hotel in the old city. I slipped a prayer on a piece of paper into a crack in the Wailing Wall and saw Christ’s tomb today. It was empty. Praise God.

Thank you for your prayers. I’m having a great time but miss my Wife. I’ll write more as I can. (I’m on a hotel PC and can’t download photos…the sunrise over the Dome of the Rock is awesome!)
Shalom,

PS. The title is greetings in Kenya, Uganda, and Israel.

Posted in Updates From Kenya
Tagged 2013, 2013 Trip, Ugandan People

February 7, 2013

Hey Honey… Post #9

We serviced the bee hives tonight and established a 4th one. In the process of correcting an error, we harvested about 20 pounds of honey. I assisted and enjoyed it a lot although it is a thing to get used to…having thousands of bees on you. They may be African Killer Bees but the honey is really good.