Stress in Ougas and more...

  Dear Friends,
  Greetings from Kenya!
  God has been good to us here. We were blessed to have some rain a couple weeks ago. It would be a blessing to have more rain and cooler temperatures. Today we were blessed to have a pastor from the Kajulu church join us at Lela. He shared a message on Faith. His text was taken from Hebrews 11 and looked at the lives of a number of people mentioned there.
  This year is election year in Kenya. People are unsure what will happen at this election. Pray that people would find the Prince of Peace and that His will would be done. 



Gorgeous Kenyan Skies!

Tony Zook sharing a good devotional

Dad is preaching and Edwin is translating. It was Dad's first time preaching with a translator, and he did well!

A scene in the Lela church...

Look a likes. Please identify the boys!

Dad shared two messages that Sunday. In the evening, he shared a message with the missionaries.
We were very inspired to seek wisdom from above.

Jake Bender's family in Kenya

Approaching a blocked area. We had dropped Lucas, Irene, and child at her mother's dala, and we had continued on to Ougas. We got into this mess...

Talk about stressful! We came to a voter ID block where there was a crowd gathered stopping the traffic demanding to see voter ID cards. Of course, as non-citizens we can't have those cards. Unfortunately, some of the youth do not understand this. We passed through this twice. The first time I was driving, and I told Wayne he will drive through it the second time. Dad does not think he can forget this experience. Pray that as the election time is "hotting up", there would be peace in this land, and that God's hand of protection would be over His people.

Dad posing with our old faithful van, The KAW! We picked them up with this van at the airport and the first comment he made was that the mission needs another van. :) An interesting fact is that most of the missionary men like to have this van here. It is a good van to haul many, many people into the bush!

This trip accomplished two things. Picking maize from Irene's (member at Rabour) homeland, and I needed to pick up a receipt at a town beyond this dala. 

Irene beside her mother. 

Here, take a picture of my child!

Irene's clan members

The scene of a three vehicle crash in Rabuor involving a bus. It did not look very serious.

Lunch at the New Ahero Hotel located inside the Ahero market

This is a kind gift Zilpa gave to Mom.

Preparing to return home

Spending precious last moments together


Tiffany with a first ice cream cone, thanks to the new KFC that has come to Kisumu!
Take time to enjoy life!

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