It is Sunday night and I am back at the Mabanga Conference Centre, trying to get ready for a week of Bible Training with 20 pastors and leaders from the churches here in Kenya. I am a little behind the curve here since both of my guest lecturers have been prevented from coming to Kenya so I have to prepare lessons I hadn't planned on having to prepare. However, that just convinces me that God has great things in store here because the opposition has been working overtime to throw obstacles in our path. Please keep us in prayer all this week, praying that God would grant us joy and strength, health and endurance, doing all we do for His glory and by His grace.

I have been greatly encouraged by the reports from the pastors who have come from Kilgoris to attend both the Pastor's Conference and the Bible Training. While the medical camps were going on, the evangelistic teams from the Masai churches spread out all over the Mara district preaching the gospel and one of the pastors told me tonight that over 260 people came to Christ as a result of their labor. And that means new churches, which means new leadership, which means more training up of pastors and leaders. Would you pray for God's direction and provision as we contemplate expanding our pastor training to twice a year in response to the increased demand?

Kim and Vicki are in Limuru with Lydia Kamau, the head of El Shaddai Orphanage where they will be helping with a field trip the boys at the orphanage will have to the Giraffe Centre and Elephant Rehabilitation Centre in Nairobi. They are also planning to meet with the director of the Nairobi Crisis Pregnancy Centre to see what is happening with crisis pregnancy centers in Africa and to support and encourage the work here.

We had a great trip to the game park in Masai Mara, and we were visibly reminded again what a great God we have who created all these things.

Many people must have been praying for us because the journey there was incredibly difficult. From Kilgoris to the western gate of Masai Mara is only about 50 km, but that little journey took us 4 hours. We started at 4 am Saturday morning and didn't arrive until 8 am.  The picture below gives you the reason why. But once in the park we had a wonderful time.

However, we didn't want to try to return to Kilgoris given the condition of the road, so we just headed back to Limuru. Unfortunately that meant that we could not spend any time with the saints in Kilgoris and they and we were very disappointed.  But we are thanking God for His wonderful protection and provision for us while we were on the road this weekend.