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My last blog did not go all the way through…so Alot was missing at the end of my story. Needless to sy praying with Rachel for her salvation was so powerful. i talked and prayed with her and Joseph prayed as he rubbed her back gently he could feel the bones she was so weak.
Monica is now home, and she is better but we hope to help her with some of her food needs because she will get sick again if she does not have any food.
Friday we met a man named Ivan from Austrailia. He and his wife mary have a baby orphanage not far from where we are building. We have heard of them, and this meeting was unexpected, and pleasant as he invited us back to where there place is for lunch, and we were very impressed. It was a top notch facility, and i hope ours will be so nice. It is a bit larger, and we realize we will probably need more land in the future. We not only enjoyed meeting them but the 35 beautiful children in their care. Mary & Ivan were awesome, and I hope to become friends with them.
I can briefly over view the last few days. Saturday we visited Jothams daughter in Kericho where her school is. It is beautiful countryside with mountains, greenery, ansmany tea fields. Very lush, and green. we visited the site of the project, and it is coming along. We have the land almost leveled.
Sunday joseph was not well so went to church,and later that day we went out to a New church that Jotham has just started in a place called Ngoogoo. yes Ngoogoo.
He started it under a shelter that cattle dused to stand under to get out of the elements. We traveled with some others singers, and pastors, andyouth from the home church in Nakuru, and it was quite something. They do not have a church in this area so the people, and the children there are so Happy. It is in a very rural area, and it is actually the are where Helen is from. That is how we first came to know abotu her. Her sister was there with her son, and on of Helen’s other children. She wanted me to see where the live, and I have to say it is nt a place for sick children. It is mud, and one room. One very small room with dirt floors. They are also consdered squaters at this time, and will not be allowed to stay there much longer. So now Helen is still in the hospital,because the twins have fever, especially Jeff, and they beleive they may have Malaria.
So we need to pray for them. They need a place that is asfe for the babies, and close to town so Helen can get treatment.
Monday & Tuesday we ran in to some of street boy friends. Bought them breakfast. Some of these stories are so complicated. They can be hard to disiffer. Most tell you want to go to school, but with no where to stay, and figuring out if they are orphans or runaways it is hard. We have tried to help A boy Stephen, and it is a long story, but the school he was attending will not accept him back because of the issue of him leaving. This is where you have to really pray and ask for God’s guidance to show you the ones you can, and cannot help. It is hard, and without the resources we have to come to the conclusion that we have to focus in the building so we have place to run this all from. A place to take orphans, and we have to work through the system to find out who and can, adn cannot help. It is hard because youcan be pulled in so many ways.
We went out to the land to check on the site on Tuesday, and also visited Helen & the babies. They look so much better, but we are glad they are getting the care they need for the time being. We also brought candy for all the children in her unit. There are so many. Many with burns, and one girl who has been there for 3 months her name is Gladys. She has swelling on the brain. Her head is large, nad her mother holds her while we talk to her. We know she was once a normal little girl, adn we try to make eye contact with her, and she seems to listen. We feel for her ,and her Mom who stays with her there with her little son Evan who is about 2. I really was praying for her to be healed, and i do believe she will be.
I would like to ask for you to pray for all the people we come in contact with. As we were leaving the hospital we ran into a friend whose sister has AIDS he was there to take her home. She is in what maybe the final stages. Please pray for her. A miraculous recovery. She has 2 children.
I would also ask that you pray that God would Bless us with the resources we need to do this ministry properly so that we can help more people, and have a facility that we all will be proud of. We know that it is just beginning, and we need his Grace, Love, Patients, and for him to Bless the work we are doing here in Kenya.
