Volunteers Help at the IDP Camps
Saturday, 26 April 2008
The past several weeks have been out of the ordinary since we took a vacation with our team the week of Easter, then had two days of intense team meetings before our mini team of three from Philadelphia arrived for 12 days of ministry together…
Kianga Kids in Ongata Rongai
Saturday, 26 April 2008
The work of Kianga Kids in Ongata Rongai began with the task of giving de-worming medication to the children in families affected by AIDS. We have visited homes there over the past few months with Pastor Joel and met single moms and their children. Starting slowly and building trust is the approach we prefer…
Prayer Alert (26 April)
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Prayer Needs for our Summer including Becky’s wedding, short-term team arriving in the Fall, Robert and George as the head ‘up-country’, and our financial support. Read more…
Resurrection
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
We hope you had a blessed Resurrection celebration last week. We were on the coast with our teammates where we meditated on the work of Christ with a Seder meal on Good Friday and a Sunday worship service on the beach just after sunrise…
George Mixon continues
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
George Mixon continues diligently mentoring three storying teachers, Pastors Joel, Julius and Theophilis, to teach Bible storying to 40 pastors in Mwingi District…
Personal Mentoring of Key Leaders
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Kimberly has befriended Cecilia and has been mentoring her for about a year. She and her 7 year old niece, whom she raises, have been involved at the Mukuru AEPC church and she recently became a deaconess there…
Engaging in Mercy Ministry
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
The week of March 10, Kimberly and I worked again with MAP International in the Internally Displaced People camps three hours to the west of Nairobi. What a privilege it is to serve people in this way – we love this work! When we were not triaging the long line of the sick, taking vital signs, examining patients or filling prescriptions we went from tent to tent to listen to tragic stories, offer prayers of healing and forgiveness and leave a gospel tract in Swahili…
Other matters for prayer…
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Our team is expanding! Over the next year we will receive some short-term field workers – three young ladies during this summer to help with Kianga Kids – two nurses and one nutritionist, and in the fall, three college grads as youth and children’s workers and a married couple to assist us in various aspects of the ministry with AEPC churches…
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