Instances of tenderness
I've begun reading through the Bible again this year and my reading has me starting in Genesis. I think a good place to start...at the beginning! The creation story always amazes me. I can't even wrap my mind around the entirety of it and to think that God created...
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Moses Muriki (Child No. MC130) Moses was living with his mother when she gave the local church permission to bring him to Mercy Child Foundation in Koma, Kenya. His father has died. He was born August 9, 1994 in Meru, Kenya and has three brothers and two sisters. His...
What’s in store for 2011?
I have absolutely no idea! I don't believe any of us can make plans and be certain they are going to go through. Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even...
Back to school
Last year we had a young boy come into the office at the Academy requesting help to attend secondary school (high school). He, Dickson, had received good marks on his final exam in 2009 from Class 8 (360 out of 500) and had been invited to a secondary school to...
What’s normal?
Been thinking about normalcy lately. What's normal for you? Now that I'm living in Tala I have a different kind of normal than I had in the States. Here it's normal for me to wonder if the electricity will stay on for any length of time; it's normal to wonder if...
Back to Tala
Chuck and I returned home to Tala last Friday after 2 days in Nairobi. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who made that time away possible. It was a time of recharging for me and to do something I enjoy doing (something that isn't possible here...
Quote from Francis Chan….
from his book Forgotten God - Our desire to live should be for the sake and glory of the God who put us on this earth in the first place.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all our friends and family. May 2011 be filled with God's abundant love and hearts open to His voice.
Time away
Chuck and I are spending a few days away in Nairobi. I'll be checking Facebook but will hold off on writing blog posts until after I return to Tala...but after just one day in Nairobi I already have a couple of posts in mind! I would like to thank those who helped...
A Day on the Compound
Just before Christmas I thought I'd capture what happened here at the family compound. It wasn't necessarily a typical day but the compound was busy this day. First, since we didn't have water at this point it was a good opportunity to clean out the mud from the well...