Archive for the 'In the World' Category


The Fire Spreads in Kenya

Hungry hearts learning to live loved of the Father in the land of Kenya I just wanted to share an update I got from our brothers and sisters in Kenya today. God is doing marvelous things among them. Thank you very much for the golden time you gave to us in Kenya and we feel [...]

Kenya Update

The recent outreach in the north regions I got an update this week from Michael Wafula, the director of IGEM in Kenya who hosted Kent and I during our recent trip there. Dear Brother Wayne and the team, Thank you very much for your prayers and grate support. You have stood alongside our brother and [...]

Help for Kenya

Over the last two years I have often written on these pages about the incredible need of the Kenyans God put us in touch with four years ago. Two years ago their country was wracked by violence after a disputed election. Tens of thousands of people were killed in the region of Kenya where we [...]

The Unfolding Kenya Story

The brothers and sisters who have been praying for our upcoming trip. Many of you know that over the past two years we have been corresponding with and sending relief money to some brothers and sisters in Kenya. Over the last two years we have been able to channel about $50,000.00 into the desperate need [...]

Helping Haiti

I was on the road yesterday so did not follow the news through the day. When I got home and finally saw pictures of the devastation in Haiti, my heart just broke for these dear people and the calamity that has befallen them. I have heard from some folks wanting to know if we knew [...]

Being Good-hearted

I read this yesterday and loved it: The good-hearted understand what it’s like to be poor; the hard-hearted haven’t the faintest idea. (Proverbs 29:7, The Message) I guess the difference is having been there and not forgetting what it was like, nor others who are there today. I guess the hard-hearted either haven’t been there, [...]

A Failed Congress

Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political observer that lived in the early 1800s wrote this insightful statement: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” Think Wall Street bail-outs, Cash for Clunkers, economic stimulus projects, and some approaches to nationalized health care, and [...]

The Simplest Things

Got this from a couple in Portland area, and it just shows how the simplest things can open some amazing doors: We’ve been having some nice hot weather and this week several days running over 100. We live in just about the exact center of our community (as the map is laid out) and right [...]