I hesitate to post now, lest there be more between now and 2018. But here is a collection made just for you. Welcome to coast.
This green mamba slithered out from the branches ofthe tree in front of my house. Where he went after thatnobody knows.
Something supped on me in about 20 places just like this.
One of about 20 frogs found in my bathtub throughout the year.
All kind...
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Monday, December 25, 2017
100 Christmas Dollies 2017 Celebration
It was a merry Christmas at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Hadu, Kenya as we made the long, long journey into Hadu, worshiped with the church, distributed 100 Christmas Dollies, and shared a meal together. So proud of this church and their leaders for all they've done to grow the church. Imagine these children alone inside a 25 x 25 sanctuary and multiply it by three. They truly need this expansion...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Emmanuel Baptist Church Testimonies
Pastor Raymond from Emmanuel Baptist Church in Hadu, Kenya was sure to point out that “all these testimonies are real!” And that these people increased their giving to the Lord and participated gratefully in fundraising for the church. All these years, Pr Raymond has been growing fruit from the seeds we sowed so many years ago. I thank God that he allowed us to enjoy it.
Sister Mary began selling...
100 Christmas Dollies: 2017 Beneficiary Announcement
I felt strangely pressed to visit a church we’d ministered through about four years ago. We don’t often lose touch, but somehow my life in Uganda made staying connected to this coastal Kenya church a challenge. We reconnected through the Sensible Shoes short-term ministry program in August and I was surprised by what I saw. Instantly I knew it was the Holy Spirit bringing me home. Prs Raymond and...
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Maasai Mara Safari
To reach our lodging for the night, we passed through the eastern part of Maasai Mara. By the time we exited the park gates, we had seen so much beauty we wondered if the next day would favor us.
...
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Sensible Shoes: Walk in Love
Our Sensible Shoes ministry has been and always will be
about washing the feet of East African children and fitting them with a pair of
Sensible Shoes as we teach them to walk in the way of love (Ephesians 5:1–2). Over
the past few years, we’ve been investing more heavily in the children of
coastal Kenya not only to meet their immediate physical and spiritual needs,
but also to lay a claim on...
Friday, July 14, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge and Healthcare
It all started by eating a simple chapatti, a small
flatbread prepared on a skillet. I love chapatti, which is exactly why the
pastor purchased two for me to have at breakfast before the final day of our
training in Mwingi. I gladly scarfed down both to the great joy of our host, unknowingly
saving the other teammates from impending doom.
Within an hour I knew something was wrong but wrote...
Monday, March 13, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Reflections
The purpose of the Poverty Challenge was to give me an
experience that more closely emulates the people I serve so that I can better
understand their lives and, therefore, bring ministry and teaching that more
directly meets their needs.
One of the most important things I learned from this
experience is how difficult it is to simulate a poverty situation without going
to extremes. I lived on $3.10...
Friday, March 10, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 10
Day 10 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses. My devotion time
was shorted by the need to prepare for ministry teaching today.
Today’s program began by leaving the
house at 8:00 and returning at 6:00 following a full day of ministry-teaching
at Faith Revival Center in Malindi....
Thursday, March 9, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 9
Day 9 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses and God’s promise
to be with us regardless of our circumstances. Today’s lesson has me pondering
the point of life. If our circumstances are irrelevant to who God is and his
faithfulness to us, what is the purpose of life itself. I...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 8
Day 8 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible. I was challenged to imagine what it would have been like
to be the mother of Moses and the choices I’d make in her place. As I
experience this $3.10 Poverty Challenge trying to imagine myself in the place
of the poor, I am reminded of how difficult it really is to put...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 7
Day 7 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses.
Given yesterday’s events, I headed
back to the police to receive my letter verifying that indeed I had lost
certain properties including my alien card, which verifies my right to be in
the country. After receiving that letter I...
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 6 The Real Challenge
Day 6 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge was a beautiful day loving on kids with Sensible Shoes,
but it wasn’t without its challenges.
As all the tiny children posed for a
group photo, a local child unknown to the pastor or teachers helped himself to
my wallet containing a LOT of money and all my important cards. Discouraged
doesn’t quite describe how I was feeling, and I have yet to sleep from that
event that occurred 12 hours ago, but I want to share more specifically what
followed.
Once...
Monday, March 6, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 6
Day 6 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses.
Today was an exciting day of Sensible
Shoes ministry at Jesus Gathering Centre in Malindi with Pr Unda. So many
people have given to prepare us for this ministry and the day finally arrived that
I could love on these kids with their...
Sunday, March 5, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 5
Day 5 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began in a rush. I’ve not slept well the last three
nights because of cough and finally enjoyed a full 2.5 hours that led up to
7:30 in the morning, just 30 minutes before I had to leave for the prison.
Once again I found that worship with these inmates was
beyond compare. Do you worship the Lord as though he is your only hope? Though
I do have some...
Saturday, March 4, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 4
Day 4 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began by reviewing and refining my sermon for the inmates
and staff at Malindi Prison. The message is entitled Choose Your Tree as we
reflect on the opportunity Adam and Eve had to choose the tree of life
(obedience) or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (sin), and that
Joseph had in choosing his tree of life (obedience by avoiding Potiphar’s wife)
or...
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 3
Day 3 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began once again by feeding myself on the Word of God
with a continued study from Women of the Bible about Potiphar’s wife.
The challenge posed by the authors today was to confess the tendency to become
emotionally or physically involved in an off-limits relationship. I confess the
temptations are real and give thanks for the protection God has given me as
well...
Thursday, March 2, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 2
Day 2 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began once again by feeding myself on the Word of God
with a continued study from Women
of the Bible about Potiphar’s Wife. Yesterday’s revelation, that every
choice to sin or not to sin is reminiscent of that first Garden choice,
continues to play through my mind. Today, though, I’m reminded that the
immediate circumstance in which we find ourselves making a...
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