Shepherd School
Posted on January 3, 2010 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
A small kerosene lamp glows in the middle of a crowded room and the blackness of the African night is pushed back to reveal a crudely made blackboard. A teenage girl has scribbled 4 or 5 words in Swahili and reads each one as the group repeats after her. After each, she gives the translation [...]
Read More..>>Update On the Volunteers’ Work
Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
VOLUNTEER UPDATE
Here is Charlies update from one of the villages visited by the volunteer team: Just a quick note of follow up. I went back to the village where we took water systems and you all did the evangelism. We had a Baptism yesterday and 24 of the new believers were baptized.
Also when I arrived [...]
Samburu are Saying
Posted on November 23, 2009 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | 1 Comment
SAMBURU ARE SAYING:
(A woman at a baptism.) I was at the church and listened to the teaching on baptism. While I was there, I told the people to pray for my husband because he is not saved. Then I went and watched some others get baptized. My husband came to the church for the next [...]
United Nations Day for the Aged
Posted on November 2, 2009 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
I bet this is one day you forgot to celebrate. I didnt even know it existed except that our politician friend who runs the Good Samaritan Home for the Aged in Maralal told us. And so we spent October 1st celebrating
Read More..>>Baptism
Posted on August 23, 2009 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
A total of 91 new believers were baptized this past Saturday. Praise the Lord! There would have been another 20 or so, but they weren’t able to find the spot. Some people walked 4 hours (one way) just to be there and get baptized. You can see some of the photos in the Facebook album [...]
Read More..>>Charlie’s Knee
Posted on May 2, 2009 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | 1 Comment
Charlie went to S. Africa this week to have surgery to repair the torn meniscus. It seems it was very successful. He goes back to the doctor on Monday for a checkup and if all looks well, he’ll be released to return to Nairobi. Joseph and I have kept busy doing shopping and playing in [...]
Read More..>>November Newsletter
Posted on November 9, 2008 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
TAKE IT OR
leave it. Skip this part of the newsletter if you just want to read about ministry and prayer requests. Youll be bored as I take some time to recount what our family has been doing of late.
Weve been really blessed to be healthy and happy these past several months. There have been some [...]
Pastors’ Perplexed
Posted on September 4, 2008 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
The other shoe dropped yesterday. After a week of baptisms, new work, professions of faith, Bible club and good things, there was bound to be a counter-attack. It came in the form of discouragement and a direct confrontation to one of our pastors. He was at his home in the village when a group came [...]
Read More..>>charlie
Posted on July 14, 2008 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
After 2 weeks of illness, we came into Nairobi this past Saturday where Charlie was admitted to the hospital. We believe he had malaria, which was treated and he is testing clear for that now. He had begun to have some other problems so we felt it was wise to come in and get checked [...]
Read More..>>June Newsletter
Posted on June 5, 2008 - Filed Under Prayer Requests | Leave a Comment
A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Kenyan weather, good music, silly sayings.
Weather: It is Sunday afternoon here. The weather is mildly warm with high clouds, and enough breeze to soften the bright sunshine. This is the best of the best. I am sitting just inside the front door (wide open) and [...]
