From Kenya...

Habari! I am now settled down into my routine here in Kenya. Today am I back in Nairobi, so i have a chance to check my mail and update everyone on my activities! I am having an awsome time, working hard but enjoying it! I am at Neema children's Home in North Kinangop Kenya, home to about 140 kids ages 2-20. I teach 6th , 7th, 9th and 10th grades and love my students. Some of them are challenges becasue they lack the basics, but most are always ready to learn and always running to me with their books to mark their work! The kids start their studies at 4 am. Classes start about 6. we have bible study at 7:30 and the school day begins at 8. We teach til 4 then the kids go do chores on the farm. I tutor a few kids who are really behind until fewllopship and dinner, then it is back to class until 9:30 when the lighst go out! The kids are wonderful, alot of them come from the streets or really rough backgrounds, but they are settleing in well! Thanks to everyone who has given support for the kids, I am buying text books today and we are planning for a trip next month! There are so many other needs with the buildings and water needs, so the rest of the money will go to things like that.

We have a lot of praises, including lots of rain!!! (which means we dont have to go to the river to collect water
-also, the school/ home recently got a generator donated to them. A electrician came and set up for the secondary school and the dining hall to have lights so we can have classes at night. the fist night the kids were soooo happy. They were running aroung shouting "this is like nairobi", " this is paradise". It was like Christmas morning time 150!!!

Keep the kids in your prayers. When the kids pray, they pray for the kids on the streets. there are so many of them here. The Neema kids know how lucky they are to have a place to live!

- Pray for a 9th grade student names Mary. She is having surgery on her sholder. We are trying to get a referal for her to come to a better hospital. right now she has a bone sticking out at her collar bone.

- Pray for three boys, Francis, John and Abraham who recently got expelled or suspended. There are alot of issues we are trying to sort out, but John's situation that he went home it not good, so trying to convince the director that he needs to be back at school.

-Pray for the new kids, they have a rough time fitting in at first, especailly the young ones!


Thanks so much for all your support!