Happy Labor Day!
Didn't realize it was this weekend until I started reading on Facebook all the yipees for a long weekend. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and may the Lord bless you with a relaxing Monday...although I've been told that Labor Day means you work especially hard...
Quote from Streams in the Desert (a devotional)…
"Waiting on God brings us to the end of our journey much faster than on our feet."
Leisurely Saturday…ahhhh!
Friday we traveled to Nairobi to pick up our good friend, Charlotte. She was working throughout Africa for the past few months and before heading home was able to spend a few days with us. Actually we take her back to the airport on Sunday...too short a visit but...
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Jacinta Kanana (Child No. MC115) Jacinta’s mother and father have both died. She was living with her older sister, who gave permission for Jacinta to live at Mercy Child Foundation in Koma, Kenya. She was born August 26, 1994 in Meru, Kenya and has one brother and...
Routine? Nope!
Not necessarily a routine morning here in Tala but here's how our morning has gone so far and it's only 9am Thursday! woke up at 5am to be ready for a 5:30am Skype call with friends back in Phoenix a big thank you to Doyle for the Starbucks which helped wake us up!...
Who’s your friend?
Building friendships is not an easy thing to do no matter where you live or what culture you are in. It takes time, sacrifice and willingness (plus a mutual language is usually helpful). I've been missing relationships lately...friends to have coffee with, who I...
Scores & prayers
We've received several of our secondary school (high school) students scores and we got mixed results. These are the students who are sponsored by Nice View Academy therefore we are paying their school fees and materials. Most of the boys have done pretty well the...
Big thanks!
A big THANK YOU goes out to our friends at DBCC (Desert Breeze Community Church). We recently received two packages filled with just about everything off our Current Wish List, along with these t-shirts. I can't express how wonderful it felt to know we haven't been...
Quote from Zac Poonen…
"Lord give me a desire to sin, like I have a desire to lick the toilet bowl with my tongue....so that even if I were permitted to do it, I wouldn't do it."
Corruption – a poem
It still surprises me when I hear young students expressing these types of views...not that I don't agree, but in the States I just never heard much about corruption or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), unless newscasters were talking about other countries. I pray...