Lots of JOY and PRAISES today! Last Thursday morning we left the city for the 5½ hour trip to western Kenya – First PRAISE – Two hours less than earlier trips thanks to road repairs! Driving around Kenya is always a JOY with views of beautiful people, animals (cows, donkeys, goats, sheep, zebra, gazelles, baboons) and the varied terrain of the countryside. Another PRAISE – Rains are continuing and we saw flourishing fields of vegetables and signs of bountiful harvests!
JOY also came from attending an AGM of the Western Region of the Baptist Convention of Kenya. Jack always loves teaching, but his greatest JOY came from the church leaders’ response to his training on Baptist Faith and Beliefs which leads to Discipleship and Church Planting! Our PRAISE: Their desire to personally carry out the Great Commission and their excitedly accepting the responsibility of sharing what they learned with their churches! My JOY last week was taking more pictures to share with you! There was a bit of frustration – one often experienced by missionaries. Part of the restful ambience of the guest house was constant electricity and ample solar heated water, but phones connected in only one spot on the property (Jack loved it!) and there was zero internet connections! During the days at the church in Kakamega, my mobile internet connection was strong, but there was no electricity! So, accomplishing needed work was a juggling act of computer work, editing pictures, etc using electricity at the guest house, followed by swift internet work at the church before my laptop battery died – I do have a great battery back-up, but the little doo-hickey to connect it to my computer has disappeared. PRAYER NEED: That I find the missing part as I often need the battery back-up and ordering this needed bit from the States was a very complicated ordeal! (Note added an hour later: PRAYER ANSWERED: The tiny part is now found! It was hiding under a bed in my office/spare bedroom!)
Another PRAYER NEED: We make a day trip tomorrow to eastern Kenya for Jack’s Accountability Session at the Wamunyu Bible School, where he has been teaching Discipleship and Church Planting! Tomorrow is the time to hear reports of how the students have used/taught/shared what they learned! PRAY for a safe journey and that the students will challenge and encourage one another with their reports of how God is at work!Another JOY - Your support which allows us to be a part of God’s work in East Africa! Did you know that your gifts to Lottie Moon covers repairing flat tires and our salary which pays my internet costs so I can tell you about our Colobus Monkey adventure? JOY also comes from your reports of this year’s Lottie Moon emphasis! Last week when it was difficult to add new daily photos to our Lottie MOON 2010 Prayer Nudge Photo Album (1), your reports and encouragement kept me going! If you have not already done so – or do it again and share it with friends – view these photos and go to “JE! TUMEFIKA? Lottie Moon 2010” for even more information about the awesome gains that are being reaped thanks to your support of finances, personnel and prayers! BERT YATES
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(1) LOTTIE MOON 2010 Daily Prayer Nudge Photo Album from Kenya (will be updated through January 1, 2011
https://lottiemoon2010kenya.wordpress.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=333830&id=685050129&l=146c063c0c
(2) “JE! TUMEFIKA? Lottie Moon 2010” at: http://lottiemoon2010-kenya.blogspot.com/
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