Kenya has been beautiful.
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Brief overview:
We have been partnered with Shekinah Glory Ministries with Bishop Ben Tanguli & his wife Christine, they live on a house in a compound with Gilgal High School, Ephriam Church, and orphanage. The town is called Namanjalala (I probably spelled that wrong) in the city of Kitale. The Tanguli family has truly welcomed us into their family. We do morning devotions, pray, and memorize scripture with them. We live inside the church inside out tents. At 9:30pm we lead the evening devotions for the 104 Gilgal students who what up at 4am everyday to start the school day… and to think, I used to complain about an 7-3 school day…
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Y'all know by now that I love a good photo.
Here's a snapshot of what life has been like in Kitale…
[These are some of the orphans that we live with.]
[We spent the first week walking around the village evangelising. These are some sister in Christ that we met and were encouraged by them ourselves. They were excited that we would come into the field that they were working on.]
[Here's a typical house made of dung and mud.]
[This is Essnas. She's about 8 years old and has more life in her than most other kids. She is packed with joy and loves to be held. She may have one of the best laughs ever.]
[Junior is the boy on the bottom. He loves to be picked up and thrown in the air. He's a lot of fun to be around.]
[Skies in Kenya are beautiful…]
[Amazing clouds everyday. It also rains almost
every afternoon while we're here.]
[Markets like no other country.]
[I caught a sunrise over a misty sky one morning.]
[Chapati flatbread and mutton curry.]
[We met this woman while evangelising and she has maybe 10 kids. She was widowed early in life and never remarried. She encouraged us by sharing how she has trusted in the Lord and he has provided for her needs above and beyond what she expected. She welcomes all people into her home.]
[We went to a small village called Bikeke. Here are some of the many kids that come to follow the muzungus (white people).]
[We spent a day at Liberty School in Bikeke.
I taught my first class ever to about 20 fourth graders. I talked to them about the power of life and death in their words and a second lesson on keeping clean in terms of our bodies, environment, and spirit.]
[Here are some students from Liberty School. They did some traditional singing and dancing accompanied by banging on a plastic water container.]
[One day we were visiting houses and this woman saw us praying
and came up to us to ask for prayer for her legs while on the
way to a hospital appointment.]
[This was an amazing house. The father Samson saw us praying and went up to some of us and said 'My daughter is sick, can you come pray for her?' Our whole team went here and prayed for the family. Lanette is 24 and has never been able to speak. Her parents went to witch doctors who were never able to do anything for her. We prayed for her. Her parents were so excited to have us there and hear their daughter make audible sounds. We are trusting and believing that the Lord will help her to fully communicate with words. We left them with hope and new freedom in the Lord.]
[In this house we met 3 alcoholic men. One man, Riddick, was in desperate need for the Lord. He wanted so badly to be freed from the life of addiction that he had been living. We spoke life over them, Jaime had shared part of her testimony, and I had shared about the freedom that they could have in Christ. We had led them to the Lord that day. There aren't enough words for how much the Holy Spirit was leading and guiding us in that room.]
[We are a walking sideshow. 'Muzungu! Muzungu!' is what we hear everywhere… We draw crowds of children all the time…]
[Lucky has been living at the orphanage for just over 4 months. He was found in a dumpster and has a timid peresonality. He has warmed up to most of us on the team, and it was a pivotal moment when Lucky allowed Jeremy and Kat to carry him. Most of the time he is fearful.]
[Kat has such a gentle and compassionate
spirit that draws many of the kids to her.]
[Jeremy is amazing with speaking life into everyone he meets. He loves to play with the kids by playing just as hard as they do.]
[One day we accompanied Bishop Ben and his wife Christine into a refugee village to hand out some food and nutritional supplements. It was a hard thing to see people fighting over resources and not being unified in their difficult situation.]
[Here is one of the homes in the refugee village.
There were dozens of them.]
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There are countless stories from this month,
and we finish up ministry on the 31st. This month is going to be so difficult to leave.
More pictures to come…
T.I.A.
[THIS IS AFRICA]
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Stay tuned.
God Bless!
Dan²
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Just one more picture…
These are the fancy mugs one woman pulled out to serve us tea after lunch.
