Another Sister in Christ

We have a visiting team here from El Paso, Texas. They have been going around in schools and presenting a drama on the plan of Salvation. Today they presented it in our school chapel. I had the privilege of talking to two of our 5th grade girls afterward. One came for assurance of Salvation and the other girl trusted Christ as her Savior!

Day at our Naibor Orphanage - part 2

We ended the day with the kids listening to music and painting what came to their mind.

It was their first time to use finger paint. =)

This Pastor Chirchir, his wife, their six kids and all the orphans that live with them.

I just had to get a picture of their clothes drying on the fence. =)

Some of the community kids that hang out and play with the orphans.

Day at our Naibor Orphanage - part 1

Shelley has been helping me learn how to do art therapy with the orphans to help draw them out and work through any struggles they are having. They start off with writing down how they feel on paper.

Last week they made mask. So this week we had them put them on and act out what animal or character they were.

They were so cute and creative!

We then had them get in small groups and write a story using the animals and characters they were.

They wrote some creative stories.

After they created and wrote their story they got to act it out for the large group.

Dixion and Kelvin are two boys that live in Kakamega, Kenya. They lost their father a year ago and have not seen their mother since they were 1 and 2 years old. At times we support community children along with our two orphanages. Another missionary and I went to Kakamega to meet the boys and check out their situation.

They are being taken care of by their grandparents. Since the grandparents were struggling financially before they took the boys in we have decided to support them along with our other community kids. We will be helping them out with the school fees, school uniforms and with the cost of the extra food.

We brought them their school uniforms and they each got a blanket. We then took them to town and got them their school shoes and shoes for when they are not in school. While we were at the supermarket getting a mattress for them I also found a football and bought it for them.

When we first met the boys they were quiet and sad. We had to work really hard to get a smile out of them. It was different when we walked out of that supermarket with shoes on their feet, a mattress to sleep on, a football in hand and ice cream to eat on the way home. The youngest was holding my hand and he began to skip along beside me as we went to the car. For a few seconds I got to see him enjoying the carefree life that a child should have.

Some of the neighbor's children that came to see the car and the wazungu (white people).

On our way to Kakamega in the western part of Kenya we passed so many tea farms. It was a beautiful sight!

The homes of the workers that pick the tea.