June 9, 2016

Trip 17, Update 4 Teso

After 10 days at Stream of Hope Home we traveled to Kenya and spent 2 nights with a ministry evangelizing the Teso people….a people group along the Ugandan border that is unreached in some areas and under reached in most. Sweet people.

We left 30 audio Bibles in the Ateso language and 2 solar powered projectors with the Jesus Film in Ateso, donated by Campus Crusade for Christ, to allow this group of church planters to show the Jesus Film and start Bible study cells in remote areas.

We encouraged them at one of their churches….the shade under a big mango tree…my kind of church then showed the Jesus Film to two groups.

The Asinge group of believers

Posted in Mission Trips, Updates From Kenya
Tagged 2016 Trip, Kenyan People, mission trip, Teso

February 2, 2016

Trip 16, Update 5, Goodbye Kenya-Hello Uganda

Team Kenya has all safely moved to their next destination. Three of the team traveled with Pastor Moses and Dr. Ben to the Stream of Hope Home in Uganda to meet up with the team there. I’ll update more about SOH next time.

Here are a few happy pics before the team left the Lord’s Servants Home in Kenya.

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…and the first ever water balloon fight!

Posted in Letters from Kenya, Mission Trips, Updates From Kenya
Tagged 2016 Trip, Lord's Servants Home, mission trip

January 29, 2016

Trip 16, Update 4, Eyeglasses and Projects

Today was Reading Glass ministry day. The team organized a way to fit 242 people with the proper strength reading glasses. It is such an easy way to make a big impact on people….restoring their ability to read for just $1 and some time. Most of these glasses were donated by the kind people at RestoringVision.org

Julia Adhiambo. Age 41. I can now read books and my Bible much better.

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Emanual Emusolo. Age 56. I am a teacher. These glasses will help me a great deal in teaching and studying. I have a hard time reading in dim light. I like to read my Bible and this will be a big help.

Eldon, Tony, Ed and their helpers completed a project to run water to the LSA school for drinking and hand washing. A drinking fountain was made. Tables and cabinets for the school as well.

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And some cool chairs by Eldon and Phyllis Yoder.

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Tagged 2016 Trip, Kenyan People, Lord's Servants Academy, Lord's Servants Home, mission trip, Projects

January 28, 2016

Trip 16, Update 3, LSH

Day 3 of the Liavo Medical Mission Clinic was completed with the largest number of people served yet, 330. The 3 day totals are 660 patients seen, 156 cases of Malaria treated, 55 tooth extractions, and the rest of the people were seen with Pneumonia and other general ailments. The project took 5 paid Kenyan medical professionals, 15 volunteers from the local church, a large amount of medicine and tests, some brought from the US and some purchased in Kenya, planning by MSM’s Tony Yoder and LSH’s Dr. Ben, the MSM team on the ground, and only roughly $4,000 to bless and relieve pain in over 600 people. Praise God!

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Dr. Ben and Ed

Tony and Dr. Silali, a very hard working Dentist.

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Tony and pastor Ken of the Liavo Bible church are sharing with the church volunteers the significance of how they joined in with Jesus’ work, loving and caring for the needy and suffering….the Gospel in action. This helps the church be relevant to the community when they next share the good news of God’s plan of love and redemption.

Concurrently many of the team have been presenting a Bible program to the 130 students at the Lord’s Servants Academy on the Armor of God. They are using puppets, crafts, and skits and everyone is really enjoying it.

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Tagged 2016 Trip, Kenyan People, Lord's Servants Home, mission trip, Projects

January 26, 2016

Trip 16, Kenya and Uganda, Update 2, Medical Outreach for Liavo

Today was day 1 of a planned 3 day medical outreach for the Liavo community that surrounds the Lord’s Servants Home (LSH) orphanage. 15 members of the Liavo Bible Church (LBC) volunteered and 2 local doctors joined our Dr. Ben in serving. Screening for Malaria and other illnesses were performed on 130 people. Medicine and encouragement was provided, much of it brought from the US and the rest locally. A larger number is expected tomorrow and Wednesday. We will fit and distribute reading glasses on Thursday. We hope to show the community that we care about them… as evidence that God does also.