Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests"- Luke 2;14

November

We thank you all for your prayers and support.We also give God glory for his protection, provision and good health. Even though we still have long way to go concerning the water project and school we do appreciate God for what he is doing. A journey of thousands miles begins with one step and not to despise  small beginning.
This month we received 2 visitors from Poland (Ania and Ela enjoyed the beach and coconut drink). They were here for one week and  we also went to visit the kids in the village. We designed some Christmas cards with some of the children, shared bread,sweets, clothes and balloons. We wished to spend more time there but time was  moving so fast and by the time we realized the week was over. The kids were on their Christmas holiday, but when they heard we were coming they came to spend time with us. Schools will begin in  January 2015.
Christmas is around the corner and some of you guys decided to send some small Christmas gifts for kids. We are looking forward to that event. In African culture  no such thing like Christmas gifts as it is in the western  In Africa, parents  who are able they buy new clothes for  kids and prepare rice with meat for Christmas day. Those who can afford buy also drinks like fanta,coca cola, mirinda,sprite etc.
If you are able to contribute to buy food, drinks, clothes for Christmas celebration will be highly appreciated.
We love you all.
"Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you, will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" Php. 1;6

Henry's testimony for Neka

Hello Neka,

I salute you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, how are you, family and ministry? Hope all is well. I, family and ministry and doing good so far and much happy to hear from you.

 

We are in my village not in Timbwani. Its like 55-60km north - west from Mombasa island. Joseph is based in the south coast of Mombasa, he has his own curio shop outside in-front of a beach hotel. We communicate mostly on Facebook and he seems to busy guy traveling to Nairobi most often, as I write he is in Nairobi. 

 

It was back before year 2000 when Neka and his Tongan team came to (Timbwani) Mombasa south, it was great to have them because they could come on the beach where I use to work as a beach boy and share the goodness of Christ in their lives. At first I was wondering what type of team it was because they use to come with rugby ball, guitar and they share about Christ. By then I had not heard of YWAM and how its missionaries work. So day after day they kept on sharing the love of Christ, I could not miss their teachings, though I was a Ganja smoker, cigaret, tried a bit of heroin, drinking alcohol having sex with holiday makers etc. They were planting a seed in my life of salvation and deliverance and introduced to me about YWAM not knowing that by year 2001 I would join them in YWAM for my DTS in Eldoret Kenya. I happened to meet one of the Tongan brothers who was still staffing. It was really a miracle for me because I never expected God to be so good to me and deliver me from all addictions.

The Tongan team commitment to Christ and the brotherly love really inspired me, the way they could come and present a song by playing the guitar or sometime they come and we play rugby with them on the beach. It was fun and made me to like being part of such a life style. Telling us their testimonies how they use to be before they met Christ ( one said back in Tonga they could go and steal pork and slaughter it and eat the meet and burn the bones, they would smoke and drink alcohol etc. ) and now they are change. It was really touching and amazing.

After my DTS I went back to Timbwani and I pastor-ed a church for 3 years and I went to Uganda and did my School of Biblical Studies. I staffed few SBS schools in Uganda and I did also Titus Project in Arusha Tanzania and staffed Titus Project in YWAM Muizenberg South Africa. My aim is to have a degree from YWAM in Biblical Studies. I met my wife when I was staffing SBS in Uganda, she is from Poland and we a blessed with 1 beautiful daughter. After marrying we moved to south west part of Uganda for 2 years and we were volunteer missionaries overseeing few local ministries and doing bible teaching. I am glad that my wife heard my bible teachings and developed the interest of doing bible school and now she has applied to do it in YWAM Uganda.

At the moment we have just come to my village and we are still visiting churches, schools, health centers and seeing where people get water for drinking. We have noticed the need of clean water, school and bible translation and printing it to local language. Please find attachment of photos of what is happening in the village at the moment.

May God bless you as you my brother Phil.4:19

Henry and Mirka.

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