http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:14:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TAKE IT OR… …leave it. Skip this part of the newsletter if you just want to read about ministry and prayer requests. You’ll be bored as I take some time to recount what our family has been doing of late. We’ve been really blessed to be healthy and happy these past several ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/11/09/november-newsletter 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 ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/09/04/pastors-perplexed AN AMAZING GOD This past month God has continued to show us evidence of how and where He is working in Samburu. Charlie has been sharing the stories of Nicodemus, Lazarus and several others. Regardless of which story he tells, the response is usually similar. “We have never heard this before…what ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/09/01/september-news SMALL BOY IN A BIG WORLD As we walked down the long, dirt path to the gate, Joseph ran ahead. What freedom, what fun, I thought. When he got a certain distance away, I found I was not only watching him run, but I could see far beyond the gate to ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/08/19/august-newsletter 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 ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/07/14/charlie SNAKES AND PAILS AND SCARY TALES If you checked out the blogsite, you may understand the title here. This month while going out to fetch a pail  (for laundry), I was confronted with a snake in the driveway. No one was around to rescue me, so I was forced to kill ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/07/03/july-2008-newsletter Ick. The things you do when there is no one else around to do them. Today I killed a snake. A black mamba. Yes, they are poisonous.   So, there I was minding my own business, heading out the kitchen door to get the laundry soap and a bucket to soak ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/06/17/snake-killer 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 ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/06/05/june-newsletter TEACHING CHILDREN by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) "Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD."--Psalm 34:11 It is a noteworthy thing that good men frequently discover their duty when they are placed in most humiliating situations. Never in David's life was he in a worse dilemma ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/06/05/teaching-children-by-charles-spurgeon Our friend relates how frustrated the elders in the forest are about the elephants continuing to greedily consume all the water in the well during the night before the people can come in the morning and get it. It seems a group of them (elders) went into town to meet ... http://www.samburuofkenya.org/blog/2008/06/05/water-problem-in-the-forest