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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

Completed well water project at the LSH and Liyavo community

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

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

That look says it all!!!

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

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.

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?

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

A Shower…what’s next Ice Cream? Post #5

Well it rained hard on us today but we still got a bunch accomplished.

* The well is pumping water now with a temporary pump overnight to flush out and they will be complete tomorrow.  We made arrangements to purchase a pump and chlorinator and install them early next week.  The piping and tank will be ready.  It is amazing that a project of this magnitude can happen within 1 week when it wasn’t expect to even start.  Praise God is all I can say.

* The first shower was taken at the LSH.  We installed an elevated tank and piping.

* The first toilet flush was made at the LSH.  Needs a little work but it flushed.

* 50 Ice Cream headaches occurred simultaneously today at the LSH

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We dished out 6 gallons of ice cream. For some, their first.

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Belinda and Rose…smiles tell it all.

* Terri did a great job subbing as a Nursery School teacher this week!!!!!

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Terri and her kids.

Thanks for your prayers!

LSH Kids school progress 3rd trimester, 2012

We really believe that education is the only way the kids will be part of the solution of Kenya’s problems and have options in their own lives.  Education and prayer is the means to our goals of them arriving at adulthood being prepared to be productive and realize God’s purpose for their lives.

The year-end results can be viewed in the link below.  Many of the kids did really well, some exceptionally.  We are seeing some kids struggle and several needing to repeat grades.  A pattern exists that the kids coming from the government school, Misanga, are not being prepared adequately.  They may do well at Misanga up to the 3rd or 4th grade but struggle after being enrolled at the tougher Seed of Hope School for the higher grades.  We have employed 3 teachers to tutor the kids over Christmas break and will keep working with them.  We also hope to expand the Lord’s Servants Academy to 1st through 3rd grades so that we can prepare our youngest kids better.

All our kids work very hard at school and are thankful to be able to go.

Please check out the progress in the link below.

Children School Performance

LSH Kids school progress 2nd trimester, 2012

Education is a huge priority and the only way the kids will be part of the solution of Kenya’s problems and have options in their own lives.  Education and prayer is the means to our goals of them arriving at adulthood being prepared to be productive and realize God’s purpose for their lives.

We have expanded the number of kids we can send to The Seed of Hope School and have started our own early education school, The Lord’s Servants Academy to make sure our young kids (and community kids) are prepared for grade school.

Our kids are doing pretty well and we have several in High School now.  Some of them need extra tutor help and attention which is provided.  Please check out the progress in the link below.

Children 2nd trimester School Performance 2012-2

Lord’s Servants Academy, est. 2012

This is very exciting new addition to God’s work at The Lord’s Servants Home.  The Lord’s Servants Academy (LSA) was opened in September with its initial class, a 25 student Nursery Class for students pre-1st grade (Kindergarten and earlier).  There was not a quality ECD (Early Childhood Development) school in the community and children typically head off to 1st grade poorly prepared and get a slow start.  The LSA will provide a Christian based education and importantly, a lunch every day.  For many of these kids, it may be the best meal they have.  The classes are held in the LSH dining hall which is clean, well-lit, has electricity, chalk board, a kitchen, latrines, water, and resources of the LSH and Liyavo Bible Church.  Special tables and benches have been prepared for the schools use for the little people.

The class size is 25 students which is very good in Kenya.  Of the 25, 8 students are our own LSH children and the rest is from the community.  We do ask a fee which is standard for a private school but unlike most private schools, plan for roughly 50% of the community student to come from families that can not pay all or even a portion of the fee.  We will maintain this proportion, serving the poorest children, as a blessing to the community.  The LSH will even assist the poorer families with uniforms by making them as an outreach from the older kids at the orphanage.

Angela Matanyi has joined the LSA staff as Nursery Class teacher.  She is highly qualified and has nearly 10 years of teaching experience with nursery aged children, is certified in ECD, and is from the area.

The school year cycle in Kenya begins in January.  We see the need and therefore is our goal to expand the LSA to include and additional 25 Nursery students and also begin a 1st grade class.  Currently a second ECD teacher and a 1st grade teacher is being sought.   We will partition the dining hall with moveable curtains or walls to allow for separate classes.  We pray that this effort will provide a blessing to the community by serving the youngest of school age children with a great start to their education.