“We care for orphans not because we are rescuers but because we are the rescued.” -David Platt. Because we are so blessed to have had God save us that we feel compelled to save others, not because we are something, but because sometimes we can do something Trisha is pictured visiting Lucie in Western Kenya […]
The blessings of ministry in Kenya Have you ever held an orphan baby in your arms and looked into her eyes and had her reach out and smile and cup your finger in her little hand? Have you ever laughed with two girls in Maasailand for two hours even though neither of you speak each […]
There are so many orphans, so many poor. What difference does it make if you reach out? Like the popular starfish story reminds us, you can make a difference in the world by making a difference for one person at a time. Sarah, pictured here, was an orphan girl that we had helped out in […]
I enjoy good friends in Kenya, like Pastor Francis Koriata, a member of the Maasai Tribe. I have had some great times with Pastor Francis, as well as occasional misunderstanding, but our friendship has been solid through the years. I have learned that there can be cultural, societal, and ethnic differences that need to be […]
In 2006 I met a man in the Mathare slum named Benedict. I asked him if the kids in the slum had any hope of a future. He replied, “knowledge is power”. At that time the Nairobi Rotary Club sponsored a sewage project in the Mathare slum. I was excited to meet my fellow Rotarians […]
Answers to questions? When walking through the slum areas of Nairobi questions always arise: “why do the slums continue without change?”; “Why doesn’t someone help these folks?”; “Why does poverty exist in today’s world?” Often times, there are no real, tangible answers to these questions. Pictured above is a boy that I saw picking up […]
Support your missionaries: It has been almost 8 years now that our family has lived in Nairobi, Kenya. Lately, I have been traveling back and forth to the US to work and earn income to support our family and the ministry here in Kenya since our normal fundraising account with our ministry was inadequate to […]
Have you ever done something and years later wondered whatever came of that? In 1998 God touched our family with a word from the Bible, James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the […]
Hello and welcome to our new website and blog. For several years we have not had a website up. We used to have one that we created ourselves on our Macbook iWeb, but when they had switched the format over we lost it and haven’t put one up until now. So we are starting over […]