Wait and see
Today we had our sponsored/orphan kids' Christmas party and at the end of the day we decided to stay at the Academy to get some work done on the computers - since the Academy has electricity. As I started getting photos ready for a blog post of today's festivities we...
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Mtunga Mutinda (Child No. 138) Mtunga is an orphan (mother and father have both died) who lives with his grandmother. He is a student at Nice View Academy in Tala, Kenya and was born in Segani, Kenya. He thinks he was born in 1998. Mtunga's grandmother does not work...
Delivery?
This was the scene outside my front door this morning as I sat reading my daily devotional (and these aren't all the chickens): Guess it's going to be chicken all around for Christmas dinner! And talk about delivery...we have one chicken who is so bold to walk into...
Tala style shopping
Today Pauline and I went shopping for items for the Nice View Academy staff & sponsored kids Christmas party to be held this Saturday. First stop was purchasing bulk items like flour (for chapatti), oil (again for cooking chapatti), milk (for tea) and sugar...
What are you reading?
I just finished reading The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis (part of the Chronicles of Narnia series). I'm reading them in publication order: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian: Return to Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (heard this is a very...
The big talk
Saturday we got together with the sponsored, secondary students - these are students who were sponsored through Nice View Academy and are now in secondary (high school). They were to bring their year end results (school year ends in November here) so we could discuss...
Quote from Mitch Hedberg…
If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Maurice Murithi (Child No. MC120) Maurice is an orphan who was brought to Mercy Child Foundation in Koma, Kenya by his local church. He was born in 1997 in Meru, Kenya and has two brothers and two sisters living elsewhere. Maurice's favorite color is green and he...
Anything accomplished?
It was another day on the farm for me yesterday and it seemed we were constantly on the go but did anything get accomplished? Maybe not what you'd expect but... We had Mukaria and Pius (both from Mercy, it is close enough many of the kids walk to the farm to see...
My 2 cents worth
1 John 2:15-17 (The Message) Don't love the world's ways. (attaching myself to something of this world that it becomes everything to me) Don't love the world's goods. (power, recognition, cars, etc.) Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. (if I...