A Photo Essay on Drought

Drought has brought hunger and tensions between community members in some parts of Kenya. Recently we did a food distribution to try to help bring healing to one community.

God bless,

What a Blessing - A New Bishop Is Installed

On Sunday the 16th of January 2011, we had the inauguration of our 5th bishop of the Africa Gospel Church. The name of that person is Reverend Dr. Robert Langat.  Not only is he an astute scholar, but a great preacher as well.

Emmy Kosgei, Kalenjin gospel artist sings at the bishop's installation ceremony.

Photo montage of the Bishop Dr. Langat's installation. 
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Reverend Dr. Langat was the Provost of Kabarak University before he accepted the position of the Bishop of the Africa Gospel Church. He is blessed with three children and a great wife.

I hope you enjoy the photos of that special day when Reverend Dr. Langat was installed as our new bishop.  The installation ceremony was held on the grounds of the Kenya Highlands Evangelical University in Kericho, Kenya.

Visiting the Borehole

Hello,

It has been a while since I updated my blog. Here is a little of what I've been doing recently.

In early December, I was able to visit the borehole that we drilled three months ago near Marigat. I am still waiting to see if we can get a pump that will help us in getting this water to people so they can use it.

The borehole is a prominent reminder that water exists here in this dry and arid place. It is just waiting to be pumped to the people of the area who are spread out over a vast area.

This water project is near and dear to my heart.

Please continue to think about this project.

I was also able to visit the Lake Bogoria National Park which is located a close distance to where the borehole is located. I loved it!  The Soi Resort is also close by and is situated on the banks of Lake Baringo. There are many things to do here, including taking a guided boat trip to view the local wildlife.

Fishermen supply the boat tour guides with the fish to feed the African eagles.

A view of the beautiful Soi Resort from the boat.

The Lake Bogoria Spa Resort is also close by and is a few minutes drive from the Lake Bogoria National Park.

Beautiful pink flamingos feeding at Lake Bogoria.

A local woman sits by one of the geyers at the lake. The water is extremely hot and many tourists boil eggs in it while they take in the sights.

Local wildlife can be seen in the park.

Just imagine that you can visit all these great places in a span of a half hour or less from the water point! You need to come and visit with us and see these sites for yourself.

Enjoy the pictures.

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