Whew…what a week!
Hello everyone and pole (sorry) for the long delay in writing. It has been a crazy, busy week/weekend. We traveled to Nairobi last Thursday to pick up our visitors from Michigan, Kelli and Therese. We made arrangements to meet at a restaurant at 1pm in Nairobi, we...
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Mulako Musyoka (Child No. 118) Mulako attends Nice View Academy in Tala, Kenya. He lives with his father, Musyoka, and his mother has died. Mulako was born sometime in 1998 in Nguluni, Kenya. (Not unusual for the children here not to know their birth dates) He has...
Visitors are coming!
Today we are traveling to Nairobi to pick up 2 visitors. I hope they don't mind the mess in the house...construction is still ongoing. Once we pick them up and come back home, probably around 5pm, we'll have to move our bed into our new bedroom (hopefully the...
Whine, moan….
House is coming along and I hate to complain...but I will because you are my friends and understand! It's nothing to do with the house per se but the disorganization that's getting to me. I can't find things, I have to move a book to sit down, the coffee table we...
Creepy crawlies!
I'm not a bug person...let me just set the record straight on that right off the bat! I don't care for them around me, I don't care for them in my house but living in Kenya there is no way around them (I try to step around them but that doesn't always work!). We've...
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Nancy Jepkoeah (Child No. ER118) Nancy lives at Eldama Ravine Children’s Village in Eldama Ravine, Kenya. She was born in 1995 in Muserech and has four siblings. She is the second born child to a single, jobless mother who is not able to provide for the whole family...
What am I doing?
Sounds like a deep question doesn't it? For me it was a question I kept asking myself while I was working at this table: Kilonzo would pour a bucket of maize on top then Jane and I would move the maize around to let the chaff fall through the netting and then pick...
Care packages…
Now that we are in Tala, Kenya we can receive care packages at our new address: Chuck & Tammy McDonaldc/o Nice View AcademyPO Box 389 Tala 90131 KenyaWe've received 2 packages and 2 cards so far - yeah! They were my birthday gifts and they made it! The Junior...
Learning lessons
As I sit here in Tala, Kenya I wonder what am I learning? Am I learning anything? Am I growing spiritually? Right now with construction continuing on the house I'm learning patience (sometimes not well) and I'm learning that satan tries to distract my focus from...
A quote from John Thornton…
"Let us try to do a little good while we still have the means to do so." - after receiving news of a considerable financial loss Thornton began writing checks to those requesting his aid or support. William Wilberforce, A Hero for Humanity