JoeAllen and Glenda's stories

    Work Day at Church     Work day - Glenda, Tiffany, and her friend     Play Time!     Church Ladies     At work day     Kisumu Museum     Tiffany Visitation     Kisumu on a Rise     Flooded     Clarissa and Shonda Braided     From our gate.     Glenda with a Sunday school presentation     We wish each of you a blessed week!      JoeAllen for the others.

Dear Friends,                                                                                                                                    05.17.16             The subject of this e-mail was a suggestion of JoeAllen Yoder, and his wife thought it was a good idea. It is a good reminder to a...

    Beautiful Kenya     The sky from Wayne's house     A flower at Wayne's     Tiffany and Ayla Zook     Brad and Jamie Zook     At church today     Angry Birds T-Shirt, 'ready aim'     Boys watching Wayne's illustration in the message     Lynford and Kay getting a push start in the stone crusher     Headed home from Bible study - it is WET season!     Thank-you for your prayers. We will try to get an email out sometime soon. The workload plus language class has us busy! -JoeAllen for the Yoders

    Tiffany playing in the mud     My wife, on our first morning in Kenya     Pastor's meeting     If I would be a cow I would not want to live in Kenya!     A piki piki in the Rabor church house     Lake Victoria     The huge bird we flew on from Amsterdam to Nairobi     The well at our church. The house is where our backless pews are stored and the open building is the church house. Hauling Chickens on a piki!   These photos are very random and today we experienced something that will make a story! More later - JoeAllen

The Home of Alice, she is in the instruction class, our church had Bible Study in her house                                           Tiffany                                           A large snail                                            Beautiful Kenya.

5-4-16 Dear Friends,   Greetings from Luo land. The land where when you see a white person you look at them and feel you have something in common! I spent most of my life in Montezuma, Ga. And we had many African American’s around us and then I moved to a part of the country where there were very few and now we mazungus are outnumbered majorly! Merle Beachy shared with me that I will likely truly feel like a alien and then his next statement challenged me. He said “we should feel just as much as aliens in the State’s as we do here” I understood what he meant – it is so easy to become a part of the world system that we forget who we are and what we have been called to.     We felt God’s call on our lives to come to Kenya and without that call we would not have wanted to embark on this journey. God has been good to us in many ways and we are grateful for that. We have a good team to work with and we have felt welcomed by our fellow missionaries and native ...

Dear Friends, This has been written several days ago. We hope to streamline this blog once we are finished with language class   Subject: A brief update...   Misawa Uru! (Hello to all of you!)                   As you can tell by the above greeting, we are “up to our heads” in language class. We are finding the following verse to be true: “Much study is a weariness to the flesh”. I am experiencing extreme exhaustion, so this e-mail will be shorter. (If you wish to learn more about our lives, you will find more info on Clara’s blog: luolandchronicles.blogspot.com. No pictures were posted yet on our blog yet. We have a lot of other things to occupy ourselves with, and that has been pushed to the back burner for now. I am looking forward to figuring that out soon.)                   I will add ...