Traveling days...
As we still don't have electricity in our house, our e-mailing and blogging continues to suffer. But enabled by a guesthouse in Nairobi with internet access and Kenyan coffee, heres a ten minute update...
just returning from a missionary conference in Watamu Kenya. Missionaries from 6 countries and some church leaders in America got together for a rich time of fellowship. We are filled with fresh ideas, renewed focus, and eagerness to visit and see our new friends in their places of service!
We also have been blessed with visitors, our missions minister and family, Wes, Amanda, and Taylor Gunn, as well as Charity's parents. Thankfully, neither friend nor family pulled us off the field. They see our struggles, but their faith in us, and more importantly, their faith in God, is a real encouragement to us.
Some people have been asking about our ministry in Busami, a small village in the Naasa chiefdom. Since we have been visiting, we have seen a new community begin to form there. We helped some hopeful people start a church community in a place where there was not yet one. 53 people chose to become Christians there, beginning a journey characterized by hope, faith, and grace... not the traditional elements of Sukuma culture that they are used to. The hard work is ahead, but we were blessed to see light break into a dark place.
One man touched our hearts. An old man. Probably 70 years old, the last man in the water hole to be baptized. He had chosen a new name to correspond to his new life, but was not yet responding to his new name. finally, he came, ready to start a new life at an old age. A sweet man walking through water for the first time.
time is up. love you all, and thank you for your continued encouragement!
As we still don't have electricity in our house, our e-mailing and blogging continues to suffer. But enabled by a guesthouse in Nairobi with internet access and Kenyan coffee, heres a ten minute update...
just returning from a missionary conference in Watamu Kenya. Missionaries from 6 countries and some church leaders in America got together for a rich time of fellowship. We are filled with fresh ideas, renewed focus, and eagerness to visit and see our new friends in their places of service!
We also have been blessed with visitors, our missions minister and family, Wes, Amanda, and Taylor Gunn, as well as Charity's parents. Thankfully, neither friend nor family pulled us off the field. They see our struggles, but their faith in us, and more importantly, their faith in God, is a real encouragement to us.
Some people have been asking about our ministry in Busami, a small village in the Naasa chiefdom. Since we have been visiting, we have seen a new community begin to form there. We helped some hopeful people start a church community in a place where there was not yet one. 53 people chose to become Christians there, beginning a journey characterized by hope, faith, and grace... not the traditional elements of Sukuma culture that they are used to. The hard work is ahead, but we were blessed to see light break into a dark place.
One man touched our hearts. An old man. Probably 70 years old, the last man in the water hole to be baptized. He had chosen a new name to correspond to his new life, but was not yet responding to his new name. finally, he came, ready to start a new life at an old age. A sweet man walking through water for the first time.
time is up. love you all, and thank you for your continued encouragement!
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