Friends are Blessed with Children

My friend Ken and his wife have been blessed with twins after waiting for close to 5 years. What a gift since we had prayer with them last November. 

I was so excited to visit with them while I was in Bomet, Kenya recently. His wife wife will be full term in one month. It is so exciting for me to see how God blesses His own. 

We had training for the youth today. It was quite challenging as we had older folks leading the youth who are so young and educated as compared to them. 

 Pray that this group will come along and be of help to the dear ones they lead.


Have a great day.
God bless

It's Raining Blessings - My World

Hello,

I attended a wonderful wedding Saturday between Dr. Chege and Chepkoech Deisy from Kericho.
The beautiful thing about this wedding is that the bride and groom are from two different communities (tribes), which sometimes do not work together.

As a peacemaker, I made it a point of attending this wedding. I had other things to do in Nakuru as well so this was a perfect time to also attend the wedding.
You can see from the wedding photos, that the wedding itself was so beautiful even though it occurred in February, an odd month for weddings here. But people squeezed in their schedules and attended.

After the wedding ,there was a lot of rain. Floods swept through a market. The rains were torrential as you can see in the photo. Even now it is raining.

What a blessed wedding this was (as in Kenya, rain means a blessing).

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A Week in Ministry

Hello,

I wanted to share my week, last week, in pictures with you. These are in addition to what was posted in the blog post Visiting Day. Early in the week, we distributed some seeds and fertilizers to people who could not plant this year because of one reason or the other. Some of the families are looking after orphans and some are not, but the needs are more than the people can bear so we had to do something to help them.

Little boy holds tight to the donated seeds. From Last Week

Mama & family accept seeds for planting. From Last Week

I also shared an especially exciting day with a church I started way back in 1997. Initially, it started as a Sunday School and I am so glad to see that it has grown to become a big church! What a blessing.

Wearing some of the medals. From Last Week

Lastly, we celebrated the wins of medals by our college athletes by having Holy Communion. Imagine. These students won in every sport in which they participated, volleyball, athletics, archery. You name the sport; they won a medal! The only games in which they did not win, were longs tennis and scrabble. These were games in which they didn't compete.

Holy Communion From Last Week

In short, that was my week. Praise God with us for the glorious week!

Jonah

***If you can help with seed planting & harvest; buying food for the widows or the school needs, please email us at (contact information in side bar at right).

Asante (Swahili for Thank You)

hello,

From Relief

it is with great excitement that we write this email.
thank you so much for the gift of food, (unga (flour) wheat flour, sugar, and oil.

From Relief

we want to send our thanks to all of you who participated in this. you became a blessing to us this afternoon. May God really bless you.

From Relief

we are students at Kenya Highlands Bible College. we live outside the school due to tuition problems as we come from not so strong families financially. but we thank God we can study here. otherwise God Bless. this is truly a blessing

***those are the words of the students that i was asked to deliver to u for the gift of food which you made possible. these students usually go without lunch and this is the exam week. what a joy this is to provide a weeks supply of food for them. look at the prayers

From Relief

and the excitement at the same time.

From Relief

food relief continues tomorrow, more into the village. we are going to buy 3 90 Kg. bags of corn. i will write more.

God Bless
Jonah

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1000 Kenyan Leaders - Part Three

hello friends,

this is the 3rd report of the recent leadership conference held in kericho.

the graduation night was very crowded both with people and with the program. those who attended were issued with certificates of attendance. there were farewell ceremonies for the conference goers as well as our teachers. we sang songs and received the final blessings in terms of the word of God.

our final Word was clear.

"Move with haste......and reach Samaria and Judea and to the ends of the world..."

i believe this is the same message i have for you.

look out, reach out to your friends...pray with them. the Lord is coming soon. have a great day and enjoy the pictures.



Pastor Jonah

The Joy of Jikos

hello friends,

we are witnessing more jikos coming up.
what a great joy this is. many new people in the village want to own this precious thing after seeing others in the village and how it is helping them.

in my last update on jikos i wrote that we hope to have at least 10 jikos set up in village homes before Christmas. we still need 7 more to make it possible for us to make 10 before the start of this year's Christmas. this would help us to make a difference in a quarter of our households. [here are some photos of the 3rd hut to receive jiko in the village.]



pray that we can achieve this. we do hope to have great smiles from the families in our community for their blessings. and these smiles bring us great joy when we can give joy to them.

otherwise know we are really so excited that we and you...can make a difference in the lives of these dear ones. let's wait for more of these great smiles.

Jonah