Sunsets

This is a picture of our typical sunset here at the Grace of God Children's Project.  Hard to beat anywhere in the world especially considering you can see the Milky Way galaxy in the nighttime! 

Would you like to see the view?  Why not plan a visit to us here and spend some time loving on these wonderful children?

Love from home :)

We've received a couple of packages from the U.S. recently - mostly m&m's for Kellie.  We've thoroughly enjoyed everything so much.  Thank you to those who've send us things - it really is a huge blessing just to get some mail.

Here's a picture of Abigail with her new doll from Grace Webb...

Kipkelion A.I.C. Church

This past Sunday, I was blessed to be able to attend and speak at the church of our friend Monica located near her home at Kipkelion.  Over 100 were in attendance and we truly had a great time in the Lord.  I preached on the topic of approaching our God with the heart of a child from Mark chapter 10 verses 13-16.

 

Punda

I have a local guy bringing me some grass to use for thatch roofing and he carries it in on a homemade trailer pulled by a punda (donkey).  A bundle cost 12 cents which seems really cheap to Americans but for a Kenya, it's free money - just a little bit of work.

fly swatter

I was recently at the house of some new friends here in Kenya and there were many flies inside the house.  As we were swatting the flies away, I mentioned to the family that we have plastic "fly swatters" in the U.S. that we get some satisfaction from.  The owner of the house said "oh, we've got those" and he reached over and pulled out a fresh cow's tail which he proceeded to start killing flies with.

 

Church Plant ?

Please pray with us as we are very seriously wanting to plant a new church in our community.  The need is huge and the people are thirsty!  Please pray that God would send a pastor to us soon.

Playground

The team last week helped us get started on the playground.  So far we have 4 swings plus a tire swing and a see-saw and a slide.  The kids absolutely love it all.  It's hard to believe but there is no playground equipment anywhere here in Kenya not even at the schools.  What a huge blessing this will be for the Grace of God children as well as the community kids.

Water Tower

Completed Water Tower built by the team last week of Doug, Tom, and Jay.  Thank you so much guys for dedicating your time, money, and energy.  We can't wait to have you come back!

Building

The building is coming up!  The crew is putting up about two courses of stones every two days.  It looks small in this picture but the footprint is 100' wide and over 30' deep.

Virginia Team - Doug, Tom, Jay

This week we have a blitz mission team of guys come in to construct the water tower for the children's home. Thank you to Tom and Jay from Roanoke and Doug from D.C. for giving so much to these kids during this week.

Muzungu Laundry

Here's how we do our laundry here in Kenya.  Thank the Lord that the Kenyan girls are so good at it and are eager to help us.  Isn't there always something that we can learn from each other?

West Pokot Mission - February 2012

Street Evangelism in Lomut

 Over the past 3 days, I traveled with a mission team to a remote region of Western Kenya called Pokot to encourage the local pastors/churches and distribute food supplies to needy families within the area.  In this arid land, temperatures are consistently high and these nomadic people live in desert like wilderness conditions.    The Pokot people live independently of modern society far from the hub of Nairobi and visits from Westerners are infrequent.  It is our desire to participate in the Great Commission of Christ, doing our best to share the Gospel with the unreached in this vast land.

Pokot Mission Team

We were able to provide 25 families with a few days worth of food stuffs consisting of dried corn, beans, sugar, rice, tea leaves, salt, and cabbage as well as an allotment of second hand clothing.   Asante sana to those of you who have contributed financial to our family as you have also been a part of this blessing given to the Pokot. 

The Lord’s people are surely trying their best to reach people in areas like this, however just as the Bible reads in Matthew 9:37 - “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few”.   We visited 4 churches on the trip, two of which are not staffed with pastors or even workers.  Typically a layman is responsible for leading the service and ministry each week.  Even at the more established church the children’s Sunday school time was led by one of the elder girls in attendance.

Food Distribution

The people are so very needy in this land; physically, emotionally, and certainly spiritually.  In one of the homes that we visited, a young woman has two young daughters, both with tumors in the brain and the mother has been ailing for more than a year of unknown origin.  She is afraid her husband will take a 2^nd wife if she is not able to bear more children.  She believes God loves her and has provided for her needs but she needs love and prayers from others and further Christian discipleship.

Can we do more???

Titus

Food Distribution - Kimi

Church in Pokot

Fresh Mango - SO GOOD !

Pastor Peter & Gabriel

Baby Nursery

Children in Pokot

Trees are for Climbing

The Medlin kids are doing well here in Kenya.  I believe we are all fully adjusted to life here.  Gabriel & Christina are now attending classes at the local primary school where they are taught all the basics, plus the kiswahili language and even Christian Religion (C.R.E.).  Jacob likes nothing more than working with the construction crew as they build the house and Abigail enjoys the attention she gets from all the children's home kids and workers.  Everyone in the community knows who we are and they are always very kind to us.

Eat More Chicken

We hope that chickens and eggs will be a big part of the children's diet here in Kenya.  It's rare for them to get protein other than from beans.  Here is a picture of Winny Awino and the boys' attempt at building a chicken coup.  Does anyone from the U.S. have experience with breeding chickens and coup design?  We could really use some help on this one...