Kenya

Dear friends

We greet you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We would like to thank you for your prayers, support and encouragement during the last few weeks. As we wrote to you  we were leaving Uganda for Kenya. We made it, we reached Kenya well. However the journey was long but God protected us all. Glory be to Him.

We have been in Kenya for one month so far. We all stay in one of the villages, outside Mombasa town. The place is rough, and quite far from civilization. Most of the houses in this area are mad houses without power or running water. But we thank God, for the house we stay in has power and water. The house itself do not have inside bathroom but there is one outside. It  is a bit scary at night because there is no fence around.  But still we are thankful "for we have learn to be satisfied with what we have" Phl. 4;11.

When we reached it was to hot and very humid that made Hannah to have lot's of rashes.With God's help we managed the rashes by bathing her in the water mixed with baking soda. Good enough the weather has changed recently. Now we are in the beginning of rainy season. Because of lack of a power in most places many insects are attracted by our lights and that brings lot of different insects around eg the white aunts, grass hoppers,crickets and others including safari aunts.

Hannah is doing well, she made some friends from neighbors. And they are enjoying to play together. Hannah also is curious about the chickens . Once she even flipped over on her walker as she was running after one.

In the village there is a government water project where people buy water from. This water is not pumped into their houses, it is sold from trading center but there is not good management of it. Still people have to fetch water from swamps or trap it when it rains. Because now we are in rainy season people do not walk long distance for the water. But when it is dry season people are force to walk even 10 km to get water for cooking, bathing etc.

The roads are rough roads and they are very bad, specially during rainy season. Tarmark road is about 10 to 13 km from where we are. There is one bus which comes to the village but still people struggle to pay and because of this they have to walk.. Mostly people earn less than a dollar a day, they depend on farming, eat what they plant in their small gardens. If is dry season they struggle with the food.

Also communication here is a challenge, there is no good network. To send an email it takes few days, because of network which is on and off.. To get a proper router is a bit costly for us(over 120$ per month)

So far we have seen in this place the need of drilling water from the ground so as people can get clean water instead of using dirty water from the swamp. We do not know all the costs for this but we know it is expensive thing to do. However with God all things are possible. 

Also those who are Christians have been asking  for Swahili Bibles. The y know we are Christians so they keep coming to our place thinking we have a storage of Bibles. So there is also a need of buying Bibles for people.

Now the holidays are finished and schools are open. Next week we are going to  visit schools, churches. There is one government school around and small preschool but more about it we will write to you next time.

We thought coming to Kenya would give us time to rest but it seems like God brought us here for a reason, without our understanding.

We are still trusting God for YWAM where we can get more training.

Thank you for your prayers and support. We appreciate it. May God bless you abundantly.

"And with all his abundant wealth through Christ Jesus my God supply all your needs" Phl.4;19