Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Doris Kathambi (Child Number MC124) Doris was born on September 18, 1996 in Nairobi, Kenya and is now an orphan. She has three sisters and one brother, but she doesn't know where they live. Her older brother brought her to Mercy Child...
Words of wisdom
Ok, these aren't my words of wisdom, they are words I've heard over the past couple of weeks. I've been writing some of them down on slips of paper and now am wondering what to do with them. So I decided to share a couple of them with you. I learn from listening to...
Email from Kenya
Received an email from Pauline (she is Gideon's wife, who is the Director at Nice View Academy/Orphanage) on Tuesday. Here are her updates: She reported that all is well with them at Nice View. Ruth, our friend who we met on our first trip to Tala and celebrated her...
New weekly addition to our blog…
"Friday's Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya". Every Friday you will have the chance to "meet" one of our children in Kenya. I will have the child's picture along with some information I gathered when I interviewed them. More photos of...
Sad news is a reminder
Pauline, my dear sister in Christ in Kenya, sent me an email the other day telling me her friend Sarah's mother had died. I had met Sarah when we were in Kenya on a trip to visit Pauline's family. (This picture was taken at a neighbor's of Pauline's parents.) ...
The women of Kibera in Kenya
Following is a video from Amnesty International which introduces us to a few of the thousands of women living in Kibera, Kenya (according to Wikipedia, Kibera is the third largest slum in the world). The video is about 6 minutes but please take the time to listen...
One sided conversation
The forms of media we have now (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc.) makes for a lot of one-sided conversations. Many times it takes me a few days to write a blog entry. I write it with my understanding and perception in mind. I do some rewriting so my point,...
Mercy Child’s creative kids
During our first visit to Mercy Child Foundation, back in August 2008, the kids sang songs and danced for us. I found out afterwards the kids had combined several tribal songs. They are so creative and love to put on a show for us. When we return hopefully they...
What do you see?
In Proverbs 27:20 it says the eyes are never satisfied. Satisfied with what...our looks, our health, our physique, our home, our wife/husband etc.? In The Message version it says "lust just never quits." One way I've found this to be true for me is walking around...
Tala – our home away from home
Here's a few pictures of our hometown - Tala, Kenya. It reminds me of an old mining town - small shops, animals roaming around, people walking to the market. We would stop everyday at a couple of shops - one to get cabbage, one to get milk, one...