Ministering to the Mau Forest IDPs

Hello friends,

We still have many Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kenya. I am just hoping this will be a thing of the past soon, but the challenges are still there for all to see.

It is foggy as we head into the Mau Forest IDP camp.

 I guess we need a marshal plan to end this kind of disaster.

Team leaders gather and speak to the people.

There are over 4000 people in this camp. They need a permanent solution soonest. Please pray for them.

Every face in this next series of photos tells a story of the hardships these people face.

Look how frightened and uncertain this young girl looks. Young children should be free from hunger, homelessness, illness and uncertainty. You can be a part of putting a smile back on this young girl's face by helping to ensure she gets all of these necessities of life.

This man has lived a long life. He should now be enjoying his later years with dignity and certainty of food and housing.  Just think about how he feels about now being landless and unable to work and provide for himself and his loved ones.

In this entire crowd of mostly women you can see the hardships of life etched on every face.  Some of these women are young and some are old but they are all living a very hard life with few people to care about what happens to them.

Hardship is written on his countenance.

Continue to support us as we meet the needs of these dear ones as we did this week. We had a lot of contributions from the doctors and VCT counsellors who helped us in providing medical services and testing the folks here.

Hospital help with doctors and medicines was a huge part of the day's help for the IDPs.

Some medical supplies.

Food relief.

Medical help.

IDP patients in the medical tent.

People line up for medicine.

What a challenge it was! Especially driving on the roads. But we did really love this great work of service to help the Mau IDPs.

The roads are really difficult to traverse. There is thick mud everywhere. You need a really good four wheel drive.

Me with the IDP camp and humanitarian relief effort in background. It was touching to help these people. Will you join with us?  I hope to hear from you.

Enjoy the pics.
God bless,

Kipnegeno Goes to School

Hello prayer partners,

Kipngeno will be going to school in January, 2011 and we are so happy for him.

He will be studying pharmacy.

I wrote about him in an earlier post and you can read that by searching this blog if you like using "Kipngeno".

He needs a lot of  funds to start school in two months time and we are trying to gather what is needed.  Please continue to pray for him.  Contact me if you can help Kipngeno.

Otherwise have a great day.

God bless

Shoes

Hi friends and bloggers,


We had a short visit to a school here in Kericho to give out shoes.  What a lovely day I had being involved in this.


Enjoy the pictures.

We need lots of socks for the dear ones here.  Pray for one of gals here who is an orphan. She was sent home for lack of school fees and came to me for help.  I just told her to pray.


We had a great day

Marigat Well, Part 4

Here are two short videos of the joy we had in finding water in Marigat, Kenya. You can read about the water project in the last several blog entries. Enjoy!





God bless,

Update on the Marigat Well Project

Hello,

I made a quick trip today to Marigat to check on the progress of the water project. I am glad to report that we have a lot of water in this borehole.  It is enough to serve over 5000 people and lots of animals.

It is enough to serve over 5000 people and lots of animals.

We will be test pumping for the next 24 hours at the same rate.

Please pray for the gentlemen who are working on this. The next steps in the project are to write the report, and test the water to see if it is good for use by humans and animals.

Otherwise enjoy the pictures

Jonah

We Have Water

Hello,


We have located the water in Marigat, Kenya. I am so excited!

The engineer in charge, Bernard, informed me that we have enough water. More than we need. What a joy this is! For those who study water, Bernard talked of 10 cubic meters. Apparently when drilling water they often get 2 or 3 cubic meters. So we are truly blessed. Bernard is so excited. That is the excitement that comes with getting water for indeed water is life.


By Friday we will have test pumping for 24 hours just to check if the machines measured well. What an excitement this is.

The villagers here have done their part. We have had enough food for the hard working men. The chairman of the project has donated a big, big goat for them, and the chief will do so too. This was all done yesterday at the sight of water. Earlier I had bought some food too for the group just to get us started.


We look forward to the celebrations of 'officially' getting this gift of water from the donors, the Is There Not a Cause team from Trinidad. We are looking forward to that great day. Already gifts of goats and sheep have been given for that 'Big day' which we hope will be maybe October, November or December. Whenever it is, I look forward to it.

In the other pictures, you can see us trying to cross over the River Perkerra. The water was down and we thought we could go and purchase some food in Marigat town. For me it was a tough choice and I had to be courageous to cross this river.

Church in Marigat

Hello,


As you might have known, I am presently here in Marigat, Kenya, drilling a well for the community of Ilchamus.


Today is Sunday and we are not drilling so I went into Marigat town to rest a bit. In the morning I had a hard time locating where to worship.

First I found an Anglican Church.  It seems services hadn't started.  The other churches I found were the Catholic Church and the Full Gospel Church. Most of these churches had not started services as of 9 a.m.  I alerted my taxi man (motorbike taxi) to take me to another church  in town when I realized I had to wait longer for services to start.


I later found a good church to attend  in Marigat Town.  It is called the Africa Inland Church.  I loved the worship and the service in general.

In other news , I  have bought myself some crocs.  This will help me here a lot as it is very hot.  Sometimes it is close to 40 degrees celsius.  

I love this place though and the water that will come soon.  You can read more about the water project  here,  here and  here.

God bless,