Kenya Life...

April 02, 2017

Friends,
Enjoy a touch of what we have experienced recently. May you be blessed as you serve our King. Glenda has started an e-mail that will have more details of our life here.
Be Blessed!
The Yoder Family of 4!

Glenda, Tiffany, and Elliot on Tiffany's third birthday. She was very excited about her birthday!

Tiffany received a small doctor set as a gift and she is checking Janalyn, her baby.

She is very happy about her new dress that Glenda made for her birthday!

Clarissa made and decorated her cake. Waynes, Jakes, their visitors, and the single girls joined us for supper around the fire.

A very tired birthday girl.

Tiffany watching the chickens... see what she is holding?

Tiffany got a couple cards in the mail, and they were so special to her! She was carrying them around that day and then could not find them that night. She was very distraught! We prayed with her, and she was very excited when she found them the next evening!

Elliot on our lawn. He is a little sport, and we love him!

Sharon Weaver (Gerold's firstborn who is married to Andre Weaver). Angela and Tiffany are so near alike!!

Gerold running a chainsaw. One of Wayne's trees needed to be cut down.
This gives us more firewood, and we invite you to come join us around the fire!

Hmm.... Safe?

A Kenyan Dala... Notice the weed growing on the plants.
It is a very nasty weed that feeds off other plants and smothers the life out of them.

Farmland

Maurice and Caroline's house. Maurice is hoping to build a house in a few months.

A scene at Wed. afternoon Bible Study

Work day at church. Neighbors come to wash laundry. This neighbor lady is using the fence as a wash line.
Times like this give us opportunity to interact with people living around us.

Tabitha and Josephine at church clean-up day

Children at church while their family is washing clothes

Gerold ready to go to a burial

A burial at Ahero. This man was killed when a car hit his piki.
Look at Wayne's blogs for more information about the group of people that were there,
There blog address is luolandchronicles.blogspot.com.

His parents are on the left. They are members of the CBF Ahero church. His estranged wife is the one with the black and red skirt.

Wayne preaching and Jacob translating

A lady talking at the Ahero burial...

Part of the crowd

Rice!!

The results of a VERY HEAVY rain!

Joseph Kisera is a member that normally comes early to church. He has to walk far using his walking sticks. It is interesting to talk with him before the service. Often he will ask for things. He has asked for a phone and a shirt recently. I asked him if he would give me a shirt like he has. He thought that was different for pastor to ask him for something!

This is what we found after church last Sunday. We learned that someone died at one of our members dala. Friends, she had been beaten some weeks ago, and then died from infected, open sores. Several hours after her death the smell was aweful... The mortuary wanted to reject the body.

The burial was today... I did not view the body. Glenda had enough courage to, and said it was nothing pretty. We were only there for a short time and returned to Kisumu after prayer, singing, and greeting Mary. Below are more photos of the service.
Note from Glenda: They did ask CBF Pastor Joe to speak to the small crowd at the burial. This was an opportunity to remind the crowd of the frailty of life and the importance of being washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Caroline (center) was at church for the first time in a while because of sickness. Sylvia visited our church today.

At the home of the dead body

Mary Ajode's crippled mother. (At the home of the dead body)

A girl Mary Ajode takes care of

Enjoying Java House after pastor meeting. This was Lester's last meeting before returning t the states.

Enjoy it Lester. They have blessed us in so many ways!

Gerold having son time.

This bull will be slaughtered for a burial. I thought if he would know what was about to happen, he would be trying to escape!

We took Lester's to Nairobi and spent extra time there to get away as family. Stacy went along and flew back to Kisumu. Here Tisha and Tiffany were spending a little time together before they fly.