and speaking five times in the last three days (with four covered dish meals). We will speak in another church tonight and enjoy another church dinner! Yes, it is exhausting and I will not step onto the scales this week, but it “recharges” us as we share how God is at work in Africa and thank Southern Baptists for allowing us to be a part of His work as you pray, give and send personnel. Last week was also a reunion for us – Thirty one years ago at the Mission’s Week at this NC Baptist Assembly our lives took a major turn. When we arrived that year with our youth group from Greensboro, NC, we planned to move the next week to Raleigh, NC, so I could complete my Masters. Instead two months later we moved to Nairobi, Kenya, to serve for JUST one year and …Thank you for praying for our time at Fort Caswell. We praise God for the friends we made last week – friends that are among our new prayer warriors and friends we hope to someday see in Kenya as volunteers or even long-term personnel! Join us in praying that the children, youth and adults at the camp will continue to grow in their desire to know our Saviour’s will and obey it. Thank you also for praying for Jack as he led a Mission’s Training Seminar for volunteers at First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, NC, last Monday night. Jack felt that God was at work and there was an “increased understanding of the practical applications of the Great Commission.” Pray for Jack as this training continues on August 17th and 24th and as we share with others groups next week.
In our last Prayer Update, I asked you to pray for the family and friends of a young Kenyan friend, David Yallo, who had died.
We learned later that Yallo was on his way to lead a youth seminar in Tanzania and that at least 38 people died in the bus accident. Jack had mentored Yallo for many years. We both had spent hours talking with Yallo on the phone, via text messages, instant messaging, etc., as he gained confidence in ministering, so we have been among his friends/family who felt your prayers for peace and joy during this sad time. Shem Okello, a Kenyan co-worker/friend, sent me an account of a recent trip where Yallo worked with Southern Baptist volunteers from Texas. “Using his (Yallo) creativity skills, we managed to paint the entire Muranga police station and shared the holy word with the police officers there. He organized lunch for everybody in the volunteer team … He organized for the Lord’s Supper as well … in one of the gatherings with the youth, he asked everybody to hold hands and told them ‘I am passing on the baton to you all. Go and share the word of God with everybody.’” Please join us in praying that Yallo’s Christian friends will do this and his friends who have not yet accepted our Saviour’s love and salvation, will do so.Yes, I do give you a lot to pray for, but I know God hears even the short prayers you offer as you read this message and He is answering – THANK YOU, Bert
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