Shalom

We give glory for our dear friends from Swiecie who constantly support us and the kids in the village. Each time we share the gifts, clothes and other things been sent  the children are very happy.  Last time we had many balloons. It was hard to manage and blow them all because the kids surrounded the box like they really wanted them now now.  You can see the joy on they faces.
We bless you and also are sending greetings from children.

Prayer request

Dear Friends

We greet you in the name of Jesus Christ. We do believe all is well with you and your families.

Some time ago, we shared with you about things which we hoped to do in the village Kwademu. We really need your prayers and also your financial support.

• We still need 600$ for Geologist who will give us report saying how far the water is located. After getting that we shall be able to know the whole cost of drilling.
• School project, we need at least 10 000$ to start the building. As time goes we will fully know how much we are still missing to finish the building
• we also kindly ask you to stand with us as a family, our monthly expenditure are around 700$. And we are very far away from that.
• We need also your prayers for protection and safety for 2 voluntaries who are preparing to come in the beginning of November.
• Protection from sickness, strength to face any challenges
  and God's wisdom to make any decisions

For any financial contribution, more details please contact us by email henrymirkakalume@yahoo.com.

God bless you

“Happy are those who are merciful to others,

God will be merciful to them” Mat.5;7

September

How are you our beloved friend?  We do hope all is well with you.
Thanks for your prayers ,we are fine apart from Mirka's rashes. As you pray, please  remember her in your prayers. It is very annoying, we are not sure what caused  the rashes. She has been like that for about 2 weeks but we trust God that he will take control of it.

As we were writing  before, we were expecting polish missionary in September. Wiola arrived safety and all in all we had a great time together. We managed to visit  preschool in the village.  It was a nice sup rice  for children to see another muzungu (white person) around/ We shared the story of Jesus being a great Shepard who cares about his sheep. Later on we drew the picture. It was fun to see some of the pictures. I am telling you some of these kids are talented :)

Generally kids in the village do not have much opportunity of drawing or painting. It is not because they do not like to do it, simply they do not have colors, papers, pencils  etc. They lack the basic things, so when we receive such materials  in the parcels we are all happy.

We wish to keep Wiola with us  for more than a week but  everything has his beginning and the end. We are hoping that she will be back in Mombasa soon. For now we pray for  God to protect her as she is ministering in Mozambique.



Also we would like to give special thanks to Agnieszka from Krakow and her friends who supported us with many clothes.
The kids were very delight to receive gifts from you guys.  We bless you and we pray that God will be the One who will pay reward to you.
We love you all.

Mombasa

We hope you are all doing well. We are sorry for being quiet for such long. The last 2 months have been busy for us. We were moving up and down Uganda Kenya, Kenya Uganda etc. Finally we are all back in Kenya. We were hoping that Mirka would start School in YWAM this year but seems like not yet God's timing for that. It is always better to go with what God planed than go with our own plans. The time in Uganda was not wasted though, because we managed to visit our friends and had some time together. We are blessed with that.

Thank you for your prayers. God provided for us and we were able to rent small apartment in Mombasa, Kenya as you know the place we stayed before was a temporary. The house is clean and looks to be secured. Now we are settling in and will start to work on our projects (school project and water project). Also in few days we are hosting polish missionary from Mozambique and she will be with us for a week.

If you feel God is calling you to stand with us and contribute to any of this project you are very welcome. We will appreciate so much.

Bless you

Mirka and Henry

June

Greeting all the way from Mombasa Kenya. We trust that our Lord Jesus Christ watched over you and you are doing well.We would like to thank you for your continued prayers and all support you gave us. May God bless you abundantly.

In brief God has been doing great in our mildest. It was a busy month visiting schools and churches, as we told you in the last update. We thank God for the gifts we received from some of you. As we were visiting these schools and churches we were also sharing those gifts. People were very happy and smiling because they received many things. Each person who got something had reason to be thankful to God for His care and love. For example a mum of 3 children was grateful for the blankets the kids brought home because they had none to use. It is rainy season now and the nights are cold so the kids will be warm.

Last time we shared with you that there is a need of clean water for people and school. We have taken a step of faith to do a research on how to drill water and open a school. All these projects need process, for water to be drilled from the ground, one need a geologist report and then you can go a head and drill. Geologist is asking for 600US$ to give the report, this fee includes; Transport, Hydro geological survey, Groundwater assessment, Water-depth and rock morphology and Final official hydro geological report. When that stage is done then drilling technicians will let us know how much will be the drilling.

For the school we need to come up with the site plan and building plans. We dont know the cost for all this because we are suppose to bring the architect to the site. A part from that buildings there will be a registration of the school. So its becoming more expenses and busy moving from one office to the other. Hope next update we will give the costs.

As family we have been having some good time and some hard. Hannah has just started walking, its joyful to see her progress day by day. She chases goats in the bushes and running after chicken:). Mirka had a bit of tough times this last month, she had some etchings which we could not tell what was the actually cause and at the moment she has a wound on her right  foot which according to the physician he say its skin allergy. She also has some pain on eyelid, we cant tell what exactly is the problem. For Henry had some tooth problem. It was sore for some days. Thank to God the pain stop.

Please keep us on your prayers for journey mercies, favor, protection, good health and financial breakthrough. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen.

“Whoever has two shirts must give to the man who has none and whoever has food must share it” Luke 3;11

Visiting schools

The conditions of the nearest school we visited couple times is very poor.  Because there is no school building the kids are meeting and learn from church. Church building itself is in a bad condition, any time may follow apart. Also we found out that the kids are lacking scholastic materials. Most of them do not know English either swahili. The language which they use is a local one called Giriama. Good enough one of the teachers knows English so she can translate for kids if there is a need.

The other school near by is a government school. The school has hundreds of kids but not enough teachers to teach. One class can hold even 100 students. The kids who are slow learners are left behind/ There is none to take care of them.

We believe one day God will make it possible for these little ones and they will be able to get proper education.

We also would like to acknowledge and give special thanks to friends from church Shalom who has sent gifts for children here. May God continue with His blessing for you.

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