Bible Institute

I had a wonderful day of ministry! I drove out this morning to one of the missionaries Bible Institutes. I was to be one of their lecturers for the day. When I got there I met up with a Korean couple I went to language school with last year. What a small world! It was so good to see them and catch up on all the happenings.

Class started 20 min. late as I waited for the students to arrive. They finally did and we ended up with 30 in attendance. I enjoyed two wonderful hours with the students. It was neat to see them get excited about teaching children. =) I only had five Bible lesson series books to give out. So, before class I put a sticky note under five chairs. At the end of class you should have seen them get excited and dive under their chairs to see if they had a sticky note. They all got to go home with a Gospel Fuzzy puppet, Wordless Book, counseling tools and childrens tracts.

I’m getting excited because I head off to camp this Monday! This week they had camp I just couldn’t be there. I was told there were some children that got saved! Praise the Lord!!!! =)

The students with their Gospel Fuzzy puppets on their hands =)

Staying Busy

We had a good day at church yesterday. I always enjoy my time with the kids in Sunday school and junior church. The practice is going well for the children’s Christmas program. Three more weeks and we get to do it for the parents! =) I had the opportunity to play the piano for church. It has been eight years since I have played for people singing. I have a habit of stopping when I make a mistake and correcting it and you can’t do that when people are singing. The Lord was good! Yes, I hit a few sour notes, but I kept going and did not stop. The whole reason for learning to play the piano was so I could use it on the mission field. I was very nervous on the outside, but on the inside my heart was overflowing with joy. =)

A missionary asked me to do some teacher training for their pastor’s wives this Friday. Then on Monday I will be heading to camp for two weeks. I am really looking forward to being with the kids those two weeks at camp! I will try to keep you updated on how things are going.

I would also like to ask you to pray for two people. One is the missionary I am working with. They are in the States right now and she will be having surgery on December 18th. The second person is my 6 year old niece, Esther. She wasn’t feeling well and they took her in for a MRI. It looks like the cancer may be back, but they are getting a second opinion.

A Road Sign

We had a great 2nd half of our Teacher training at Emmanuel Baptist today! Because of family matters and school issues only four of the ladies were able to come. I’ll meet with the two that missed and catch them up. These ladies are so sweet and I know they are going to make great Sunday school teachers! I’m so blessed to have just a small part in helping them become the best teachers they can be.

On my way home today I saw something absolutely amazing. =) We now have a road sign for our turn off of Mombasa Road, the main roadway that goes through Nairobi town and down to Mombasa! We are really coming up in this world! ;)

A couple of days ago I had a really sweet surprise. My church sent me a box for Christmas! There were wrapped packages, singing cards, red and green m&ms, and reeses peanut butter cups. Of course I don’t get to open the packages till Christmas day, but I have tried the m&ms. ;) What a really sweet surprise it was. =)

Is That Singing I Hear?

That was the question that came from my mouth this morning as I was teaching. I guess I should start at the beginning. I had a great time in Sunday school. We started a series called “Our Awesome God” and we learned today about God’s Sovereignty. All kinds of question were brought up in that one class hour.

The missionaries are gone for their son’s wedding in the States. So we had a guest preacher today. Things were going along as normal. Before the last song was sung the children were dismissed for junior church. We went out and since the Christmas program is not far away we kept the kids together for the first 10 minutes and practiced for the Christmas program. After the quick practice we split into our two junior church classes. I was 15 minutes into our class time when I heard singing coming from the church tent. I sent the assistant teacher out to check and see what was going on. She came back to tell me Church was finished. The guest preacher had cut us short by 20 minutes. =) Since I have been in Kenya the Lord has been helping me to laugh about the things that are out of my control. I don’t always pass the test, but I am getting better and better at it. The other teachers and I talked and we decided that if this guest preacher preaches again we are going to be ready the next time. =)

By the way, did you notice I mentioned an assistant teacher?! That’s right we have more teachers. I did a teacher training a couple of weeks ago and had 8 ladies show up. The second half of the training is in a couple of weeks. These ladies have been a real blessing to me and I have really enjoyed working with them.