GREETINGS FROM KENYA

Hello Friends,

Well, I am finally able to get on the internet this evening and able to post an update. It has been an AWESOME trip so far and anxious to share with you what God is doing so far. We were very blessed to have great travel to Kenya and arrived pretty close to on-time Saturday evening around 6:20pm with all of our luggage arriving at the same time. We were greeted by 3 of our pastors and had a wonderful reunion with them before heading to the Marble Arch Hotel for the night.

We departed very early the next morning for the long drive to the Kisumu area in SW Kenya which turned into a total of 9 hours on the road. We did make a stop to attend church outside of Narok where we worshipped with one of the 300+ churches that are part of the Maasai Evangelistic Association led by Rev. David Kereto. Our team of pastors that we trained last year to drill wells had been in the Maasai area a couple of months ago to drill two wells for Pastor David and it was a great time to meet him and hear about his work among the Maasai. We had a great visit and what an amazing story he had to share about his work. I'll write more about that in a later blog.

We finally made it to our first location around 10pm and we were totally exhausted but excited at the same time. We were up pretty early this morning for breakfast and raring to go. But first, we had our second great God Orchestrated connection made. Staying at the same hotel we are, we met a team from Canada that is here and have a school that they started a couple of years ago that is working with about 350 orphans as well as do HIV training. Well, if that didn't get me going. We had a great conversation with plans to go see their school and the real possibility of drilling a well for them in the near future. And it very possible we will be able to help them out with some HIV testing kits, as well. Again, it is so amazing to see how our great God brings people together to help fulfill His plans. Be praying for the ministry of "One Child's Village (www.OneChildsVillage.org) as they really are having a huge, positive impact on many children's lives here in Kenya.

We made it out to the drill site of Christopher Juma's village and received such a warm welcome and a lot of enthusiasm for our coming. Christopher had arranged for about 10 men to be there to be trained on the drilling process and it didn't take long for them to get the hang of it and they were off and running with about 10 feet drilled just this afternoon. We did hit a layer of rock that we are having to hammer through but we made good progress the first day. We estimate this first well will be need to be only about 35 - 40 feet and expect we can finish it by Wednesday afternoon. Pray with us about that if you would.

Tera Perkins, the young lady on the team, spent all day with the women and children of the area and probably had close to 100 women and equal children totally engulfed in what she had to say. It was really neat to see. She is truly a blessing to this team because of her heart for missions and more specifically for the people of Kenya.

The really BIG NEWS of the day happened at the drill site. Before we even started the training and drilling, Pastor Joseph shared Christ with about 20 men and we saw about 14 of them accept Christ as their personal Savior. Now, if that doesn't excite a person, then nothing will. It was powerful to see God work today.

I think I best close for now since it is 12:30am and we have a very early start this morning. While the men are drilling today, I am going to go visit Maisha International Orphanage and Beatrice Williamson who is from the Kisumu area but lives in Oklahoma City now and has a wonderful ministry through her Orphanage she started in her home village. Check out her website (http://www.maishainternational.org/).

OK, more tomorrow hopeful. Thank you for your prayers. We can feel them!!