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Jan. ’14 Trip to Kenya/Uganda – Update #1

This past weekend our team of Greg Perkins. Ed Wiertel, Bobby Babson, and Tony, Terri, Eldon, Phyllis Yoder traveled to the LSH Home in Kitale Kenya.   All are well and hard at work loving the children, sharing with local churches, and working on projects to improve the housekeeping facilities and LSA School.

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Eldon Yoder working with Pastor Ken

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Some of the 4 gallons of honey harvested from the 4 bee hives at LSH

Yesterday Greg and Ed with Pastor Moses and Dr. Ben from Kitale, traveled to the SOH Home in Uganda.  They are working on immediate needs at the home, assessing the children’s health, and planning for future improvements.  One primary goal is to review several possible sites to purchase for a permanent home site.  Greg reports that they are negotiating with an owner about a piece of property.

We will report more soon.  Please pray for their safety and for God to work mightily through them.

Christmas in Africa….

The kids at The Lord’s Servants Home and at The Stream of Hope Home had a Christmas celebration because of Sponsors and generous people sharing with them.

We have provided clothing, a book, a trip to the Nature Park, and a special meal to the kids at LSH in Kenya for years.  They enjoyed it just as much this year….

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The LSH gang getting ready for the Kitale Nature Conservancy (Park)

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This is the first year that we have stood with the kids at SOH in Uganda in support and maybe the first Christmas celebration for many of them.  They got some new clothes, a fun day, and a really special meal with a soda.

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New clothes..they love that.

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Special meal and a soda!

Merry Christmas All!!!

Kids are Kids…

Friends at Basic Concepts, Inc., a manufacturer of spill containment systems, made us the heavy-duty welded collapsible vinyl wading pool.  We brought it to Kenya in August but it was until last month that the weather was good for them to use it.  Most of them have only stood in a bin of water to wash, never enough to swim or play in.  I can just picture the frenzy going on.  I am also humbled by the pure water that they now have in abundance because of the well that God provided in January.

Swimming at LSH

First time for them in any amount of water.

On our way Home. Blessed Trip.

We’ve completed our work in Kenya and Uganda and are on our way home.  We are in Nairobi now and leave tonight for Brussels then Sunday for the USA.  It’s been a good trip and we are all feeling that God blessed us by putting us in position to impact people.

Besides our project work and efforts with the children at the Orphanages, School, and Churches which all went well, Dr. Randall and assistants Cheryl and Greg screened a few hundred people for eye health and blood pressure, correcting issues with reading glasses and advice and referring them to sources of help.  Randall helped me pull teeth from 6 people in Uganda that were in severe pain, and I even was in the right place to take 2 people to the hospital who just had a motorcycle-automobile accident in Kitale.

God is Good.  Thank you for your prayers!  I look forward to updating everyone better when I get back next week.

Trip Update, Thur. 8 Aug.

We’ve had a great couple of days and all are doing well.  First of all, praise God for His timing, we could have come here a week earlier or a week later and been in trouble…the Nairobi airport had a major fire yesterday and is shut down to International travel for an unknown period.  We leave through there over a week from now and should be OK.

We’re enjoying the kids who are now out of school.

Here’s a few highlights…

I'm drinking water from the tap in Kenya thanks to our well and chlorinator.

I’m drinking water from the tap in Kenya thanks to our well and chlorinator.

Greg installed a hot water heater for the shower and we have enjoyed a real luxury of a hot shower.  It has been cold and rainy here and the warm water is appreciated.  This is a long way from the bottle of water and bucket we used a few years ago.  (No photo available 🙂  )

Randall and kids doing some home beautification projects. Our 4x4 Isuzu is in the background. I love it.

Randall and kids doing some home beautification projects. Our 4×4 Isuzu is in the background. I love it.

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People from the community waiting for Dr. Randall to inspect their eyes as a service.

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Caroline, Cheryl, Dorothy, and Mama Rose. Cheryl’s project installing an oven and expanding the kitchen opens up a new world of baking to the home. She is going to try a cake today.

Centrine and Bridgitt are leading a worship time on Monday night, all by themselves. Really pretty and joyful sounds.

Centrine and Bridgitt are leading a worship time on Monday night, all by themselves. Really pretty and joyful sounds.
Movie time...they love The Jungle Book!

Movie time…they love The Jungle Book!

Greg leading a team to improve road drainage and eliminate mud near the orphanage.

Greg leading a team to improve road drainage and eliminate mud near the orphanage.