I hope you’re not getting tired of me writing about Kenya. It has been some time since I last brought them to your attention because I know how easy it is for any of us to be fatigued over an ongoing, persistent need. We hear about it every day in our own country with the [...]

The life of God continues to be shared through the people I met with in Kenya. A recent report from Michael about the love of God growing among them and that they are increasingly shifting from large-group lectures, to small-group conversations to help people truly learn to live loved and not just hear sermons about [...]

I am back from a semi-vacation. Unfortunately I had to work on some of the DVD videos for The Jesus Lens, but I did get some rest and play in as well. The most important thing I could update you on is the need in Kenya. I heard from my friend Michael this week. They [...]

The Living Loved Education Center has opened to provide schooling for the children One of the students reciting a lesson in the school room Lunch time for three of the students Hanging doors in the almost-finished new construction As you can see, the school has opened and the final touches are being completed on the [...]

Those who have been working on the site, pose to celebrate the completion of the refurbished building. The bed frames are ready to be moved in. The first 25 children move into the refurbished facility with their new bedding, which was provided by the Kenyans. It was a day of great joy for all involved [...]

The walls begin to rise from the foundation. The work continues and many of the workers are volunteers. This is not part of the new construction, but some of the refurbishment of the existing buildings. New pictures have arrived from Kenya. I can’t begin to describe the overwhelming gratefulness that fills my heart looking at [...]

I got this email today from a friend, Michael Simpson who has been a missionary in Russia for the last season of his life. But now they are back in the States as God has taken their life a bit of a different direction. I love this, what they have learned and how God has [...]

Work on the trenches for the main building’s foundation has begun I just got this picture from Kenya. The property has been purchased and they’ve begun work on the building, both to refurbish those that already exist and those that need to be added. 2011 also brought a host of new laws in Kenya about [...]

I also wanted to commend another movie that I saw on my recent flight to Germany, not for its spiritual implications, but for its tender story of young love. FLIPPED, by Rob Reiner, tells an engaging story of two kids growing up across the street from each other who can’t seem to “like” each other [...]

If what I’m about to share with you breeds any guilt in your heart that you are not doing something similar, then stop reading immediately and go on with your day. There is nothing that guilt would lead you to do that would have any value whatsoever in his kingdom or his work in your [...]

Widows and children we’d like to help move to a safer and more sanitary location Many of you who have followed this blog over the past few years know well the need in Kenya thathas been exacerbated by the tribal violence of the disputed elections in 2007. We have an opportunity to help move an [...]

This is a delightful follow-up to what I wrote in the previous blog. I appreciate David’s heart here for that which God desires, and to stay far away from that which God does not. Again, as a performance standard, it probably isn’t too helpful, but as a way to live in his freedom, these are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We have recently been informed by the brothers and sister in Kenya that an entire portion of their country is starving due to failed rains over the past three years. The price for corn has gone through the roof and they wanted to know if any of us could help. I received this last week: [...]

Above are just a few of the pictures that were sent to me in the last couple of weeks by the brothers and sisters in Kenya that we have been helping over the last year. They include pictures of various outreaches, food relief, and some of the more than 30 students we have been able [...]

I got some wonderful email from the brothers and sisters from Kenya over the last few days. This has truly been one of the highlights of my year. We became aware of these people when they wrote me a couple of years ago wanting to know if I’d come to visit them in Africa. That [...]

Here is the maize our last contribution was able to purchase for the families who have been displaced by violence in Kenya. There are wonderfully grateful to all who helped sustain them in this time of great need: Here in Kenya is 8:26am. Yesterday we managed to meet with the team and I went immediately [...]

A few months ago, I posted an email written to me by Michele Perry, a Florida woman who had moved to the Sudan a couple of years before because of a leading on her heart. She rented a home there and began to take in orphans. Michele has now taken in 80 orphans and cares [...]

A few months ago we were able to respond to the crisis in Kenya that resulted from tribal violence following a contested election. The circumstances have quieted and many people have been able to return home. But the brothers and sisters God linked us with in Kitale are still taking care of about 400 families [...]

I have recently met a woman who cares for orphans in the Sudan. I published her letter to me a few weeks ago that touched many of you. She is in the States at the moment and I got an email from her today. I can’t imagine a better follow-up than what I posted about [...]

Many of you know how I tire of most ‘Christian’ approaches to dealing with culture issues in our world. Despite their rhetoric, their anger and manipulative strategies always come off as hating both the sinner and their sin. And instead of demonstrating the compassion of Jesus for the most marginalized and brokem in our culture, [...]

it looks like we’re going to make one more transfer of funds to Kenya to help our brothers and sisters there. To date we have sent over $14,000.00 to help. Even though the tensions in the country have lessened, the need is still great and we want to send one more offering to help our [...]

A couple of nights ago a few of us were talking in a home outside Charlotte, NC about giving, and how we can live it out more relationally rather than paying an obligation many people call a tithe. Someone brought up something they had seen a couple of days before—a single mom confronted with a [...]

Again, my heartfelt thanks go out to every one of you that has sent us money to pass along to the brothers and sisters in Kenya. To date we have sent over $14,000.00 to help those in Kenya. The government and opposition leaders got together last week on a power-sharing arrangement that is fragile at [...]

I’ll let Michele do have my blog today. I got this email after she had read a downloaded version of So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore and wrote me this letter. This could be the last post ever on this blog because it speaks my heart as well as anything can: My [...]

For those that want a first-had look at what’s happening in Kenya, the BBC posted a report by Karen Allen that looks at the battle to restore order in Kenya, amid ongoing violence linked to the disputed presidential election in December. Please pray! That’s most important. And, if any of you want to help us [...]

This weekend I’ve been hanging out with a bunch of free rangers in Omaha, NE and having a wonderful time. I’ve talked nonstop for two and a half days in a string of conversations that just unfold during the day with different people flowing in and out of them. I love the hunger and the [...]

This was in my inbox this morning, and I wanted to share it with all of you. Of course, my name got attached to all of this, but they all know it is coming from my ‘team’, which are simply friends and friends of friends who want to help those who are in deep need [...]

The crisis continues to worsen in Kenya as you will see from the emails below. We are blessed to be able to help a significant group of people near Kitale with housing, food, blankets, medicine and supplies from your generous contributions. To date we have taken in almost $8,000.00 and money continues to trickle in. [...]

So far over $6,000.00 has been sent to us to help with the need in Kenya. More continues to come in and as you can read below, more is needed. This is the latest report from the brothers and sisters in Kenya: Breetings in the Holy Name. I am so well blessed for the more [...]

I got this from the office staff where we have been sending funds into Kenya. They also sent pictures, which I will include below: I want to send my beloved greetings from our fellow brothers here. I would like to report that all support you have sent has helped our people in great measure. First [...]