Remember these people:
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The girl in the red sweater: I don’t know her name. I don’t know anything about her. She just laughs at me because she doesn’t understand any English. I do know though she clings to you and her eyes light up when she’s twirled around and held. I know that she wore the same clothes every time I saw her and she has a young sibling that clung to her back. She took my heart.
- Catherine and her family: She is a widow who is carrying for 206 orphans as well as Cindy and Sandra, the twins she “manufactured.” Her husbands tribal practice required that one of the twins be killed and she left to save her. She was kind enough to open up her home for a week at the begining of the month and fed us well on our small budget. We came back to her at the end of the month to help teach at the orphan's school and pray in the surrounding villages.
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Rose, who cared for us and the 8 orphans, with no where to go on holiday, who allowed us to crash with them for the last week in Kenya. Including Maggie who scared us with ****roaches and mice. For Joshua who took us on a 2 hr hike just to bless his mother with prayer and pray for healing in his older brother's life. He has been suffering from an unknown illness for the past 5 months.
- Timothy, the 6 month infant, his mother asked us to drive out the demons that cause him to hit himself and become stiff like a board.
- Patrick, who was hit by a vehicle and is supposed to the breadwinner for his younger siblings who have no one else.
- David, the widowed grandfather who gives up meals so his orphaned grandkids can eat lunch.
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The other grandfather who asked us to pray for young age so his grandchildren could be taken cared for.
- Pastor Jim and Winning Teams Ministry, the congregation under the tree, as they have been handed and entrusted with the movement called Rise Up! A movement against starvation.
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Richard (our driver) and his family with the unexpected lose of his 19 yr old brother in law. Ruth forgets to breath between her sobs.
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Robert, the man that made us breakfast every morning. Who doesn't take advantage of people and dreams to take his plastic shed and stove to a real building.
- Andrea, the Peace Corps worker who we randomly met the last day of ministry. She followed us into homes while we prayed for the local people. She is the one who will stay and see our answered prayers. Pray she returns to God through them. She is the one who saw the need and is able to do something about it. Meeting her was an answer to my prayers as I was leaving.
Kenyans will finish their plate and go back for more, when I'm about to burst. "Eat while you can because tomorrow there might not be any." You will pray inside the home, even if it's a 3 hr drive on rough roads (Richard)….because you have one. Because of this if I were a billionaire I would pave the back roads of Africa.
Kenya is now complete. Those that remain hopefully were encouraged in thier work and strengthened to continue.
This month in Uganda my team will be ministering with Linc10_10 if you would like to follow thier blogs. They may be better at posting:) I still have no idea what I'll be doing, but hey it's the world race! taking one day at a time.
Uganda already rocks my world with the power that is the Nile River (aka rafting) and the monkeys that take my food.
*hopefully pictures to follow
