Richard
ALL GOD’S CHILLIN GOT SHOES We had a very touching time today at the construction site. God put it on the heart of three of our team members to buy shoes for every worker at the construction site including all the women who are carrying water. Most of our workers […]
Yesterday, Osborn Obayo and I sat on a rock together watching the new orphanage facility come up and we both got emotional because we were watching a long held dream come true. Those of us who know Osborn, know his passion for saving the lives of children and how he […]
From time to time things come up that are not in the budget and many of you have given me permission to ask you when special needs come up. Pastor Simeon Obayo and I would like to host a 3-day retreat for 50 – 75 pastors and their wives to […]
I surmise that someone is praying for us. It is now the second day of hard work. Things are much more organized and the temperature has dropped from around 90% to around 82%. There are more than 50 workers on the site, not counting the 11 of us. We have […]
Wednesday March 16 Yesterday our team visited the construction site of our new orphanage and today we are working. Last year when we laid the foundation stones the site was a corn patch and a grove of trees; now there are piles of stones, sand and gravel everywhere. The trenches […]
Sunday March 13 Nairobi Kenya We began our first day in Kenya by visiting Elevation Church. The most articulate summation of our day was uttered by Matt Jensen in one word: “Wow”! Words fail when trying to describe worship in an exuberant Kenyan Church. It’s just pure passion expressed in […]
Greetings Partners in Prayer: Can’t tell you how blessed and comforted we are to know that people will be praying for us on our journey. The other day I put out a message asking who would like to pray for us and low and behold 80 people responded to let […]
Dear Friends: I forgot to say something: We all have our different assignments in life, but if you would like to keep us in prayer, let me know by responding to this email and I will send you more intimate details of how you can pray for us. Details about […]
DEAR FRIENDS: In 48 hours we are off to Kenya with a construction team of 9 people who have a passion to touch the lives of orphans and widows. We will be working alongside construction workers from the Kakamega area to put up 3-story, 20,000 square, foot building that will […]
I will be 70 years old this year. And in all my life I have never seen a time when our nation and world was more divided. All of us are keenly aware of the current political divide, racial divide and economic divide between the rich and the poor. On […]