Video Help

God is so good to us, so gracious to provide just what we need, when we need it! Ruthann & I have been concerned about how we can really explain the heart of the POKOT people and the hunger they have for the Gospel. While Leroy and Mary have been so faithful and intent on the work in Kenya, the Lord has connected us with some amazing people here in Alaska. Nathan and Lacy Steel of Scion Studios here in Wasilla Alaska. Not only do they have a heart for Jesus and the work of the Gospel world wide, they are willing to put their labor and talents to work for the ministry. They are going with us to Kenya on 27 March and will help us create a video record of the work there to be used on his BLOG, a website and in helping to raise support. We love these two soldiers for Christ. Please pray with us for a safe journey and guidance as they work to create these much needed tools for the precious souls of Africa. Visit their website at http://www.scionstudiosinc.com/

Oral Robers University Students Help

I am so excited to announce that a team of senior ORU students are going to be helping us package a presentation for H.I.M. I will be sharing much more about this later, but for now, please pray we can find the right non-profit to partner with us to dig and repair wells for the POKOT people of Northern Kenya. Here is the letter the team sent to me this week:

Hello, Michael. I have attached the team picture for you. From left to right, we have Grant Eisiminger, Becky Kwanga, Tripp Hipple (me), Lindsay Thomas, and Daniel Murphree.

Grant: As I mentioned before, each of us are seniors.

The only person that will not graduate this May is Grant. He is double majoring in both mass media productions and theatre. He is the creative on the team. What I mean by that is he thinks outside the box and brings a fresh perspective of life to the table.

Becky: Becky is one-of-a-kind. She grew up in Nairobi, then moved to Oxford, England when she was in middle school. What makes her so special is her joyful personality. I do not think I have ever seen her downtrodden. As I mentioned over the phone, she is awaiting to here from her mother if she needs to return to Kenya in the next couple of days. I pray she gets to stay around. She is a very valuable asset to our team. Her major is public relations and advertising.

Me (Tripp) : I am a mountain man. I grew up in Denver, Colorado and miss the snow when I am in Tulsa. It would be a dream to travel to Valdez and heli-board on some of the world's best peaks. I will be graduating a semester early from ORU and am looking to pursue a career in broadcast news. My major is in broadcast journalism.

Lindsay: Lindsay is also very valuable to our team. She is a brain when it comes to the logistics. Without her, it would almost impossible for us to get everything done. She is also a broadcast journalism major.

Daniel: Daniel is quiet, but powerful. He will be designing your new website and shooting footage for the short impact films. His keen sense of capturing footage and editing will be very helpful to us this semester. He is majoring in mass media productions.

I hope you can know get a grasp of who we are. We are all looking forward to helping you and the Hawns through the use of our talents. We said today how thankful we are to be working under you. Please let me know if you need any other information. Talk to you soon, Michael.
Sincerely,
Tripp Hipple

In my last newsletter, I let you know that we have five pastors here in the Kasei region that work very hard delivering the gospel but receives only God's blessing for it. If I had five volunteers that could pay $ 100 a month for their salary. that would give them a bout ksh 6000 that would help them feed their families. some of them have eight or nine children.

Church has been wonderful. We have seen many come to know the Lord. These young pastors are working so hard and are hungry to learn more. They come over to visit and pray with us almost every day and we are making lifelong friends.

The churches are crowded when we go, often with people hanging out of the doors and windows. When they have a building at all, it is usually a mud walled hut. Some of the churches have frames and have attached corrugated metal to them to keep out the rain. We are kept at church for many hours shaking hands and praying for people.

The children especially flock to us and seem to want to keep us involved with them. We love to see the little ones in church and coming to know the Lord right along with their parents. The food we were able to provide has made a difference , as the people see we are there to bless them and are not ignoring their most
Pressing needs. You all are a part of this, we could not be bringing the Love of God to these people without your help.

We have rented a little house in Kitale. It has a nice screened in back porch which has become the local meeting place for the pastors. They come and have tea with us and tell stories of their churches and people and discuss ways to be more effective as teachers and pastors. The children also come and sing songs and want Leroy to entertain hem. It is sometimes difficult to ask them to leave so we can get some sleep!

Now that we have the vehicle, a 2002 Toyota Land Cruiser, and a place to live and work from as our headquarters in Kitalie we are ready to move forward with the Ministry of water wells, and church building. Please pray with us for the following

We need to find well pulling equipment that can either be mounted on the bed of the Pick-up or can be towed behind on a trailer. In this way we can begin the process of pulling the wells all throughout this region that are damaged and not operating. We can restore these wells – over 300 of them – to working order one at a time.
The costs to buy casing, parts, gas and supplies will be ongoing. Pray with us that God will raise up warriors with us who will commit to helping us financially with the material needs we have for this great work

We feel a strong burden to support 5 of the most needy pastors here with a salary so they can devote themselves to the word and training to pastor their churches without worrying their families will starve. For $100/ month you could support the ministry of an entire church and feed a Pastors family. Please let us know if God is moving you in this way.

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Leroy and Mary

Newsletter 3 Oct 08

Newsletter Oct 2008

UPDATE
We arrived at Kasei Saturday evening stopped at Kamgetto on the way. sort of got flagged down by a welcome committee. The welcome was wonderful. singing and dancing. They gave Mary a hand made bracelets and necklace plus a a Pokot woman belt with some pretty shells on it. i got a hand made one piece stool that was well made about the size of a small milking stool with pretty handle on it.

Had another warm greeting at Kasei. They met us at our house on top of big hill with mountains all around us. We had a nice meal of Ugali and goat meat. with pan full of goat liver which I thought was delicious. Mary ate one piece. I believe but she did eat the goat meat. wouldn't try the Ugali. to drink we had tea Kenya style 1/2 tea 1/2 milk with lots of sugar.Sunday morning service started at about 10 am. Building was metal roof with mud sides and open doorway. pews was a small log laid over a tree limb set in the floor at each end. Log fitting into a fork in the tree limb. Mary and I and John and Ruth had a bench with a bout 12 inch seat, that got awfully hard.Singing started a bout 10:30 am and the crowd slowly got bigger ad bigger till there was standing room only and some people listening form the doors and windows. All elders that are still alive came to greet us. I was embarrassed to find out I had forgotten a lot of their names. hope they will forgive me. because they all remembered me and some of the good times we had when I lived here. A real blessing to say the least.Lunch was served after church. beans and maize cooked together with gali on the side was a real good meal ready.People came till pretty late. John And Ruth went home to Kiwawa earlier in the after noon. Monday was spent visiting with old friends welcoming us home. I forgot to add John and I both spoke during the service and Ruth brought the message in the Pokot language. she did a great Job but John interpreted for us as she preached.Now its Tuesday and Mary and i are by our selves here at kasei. The goats staring onto the porch at us and flys trying to find a place to land. We do have some serious problems here. The famine is very bad but it has rained every night since we have been here. the natives keep thanking us for God blessing them with rain, we just have to tell them we had nothing to do with it. All the praise should go to God. But its to late to do the crops any good.I priced maize in Kapenguria its Ksh 3000 per ninety kilo bag. The delivery to here from Kapenguria would make a truck load about $ 4000 But at Kasie we can buy maize 25 ksh per killo a pick up load about 25 bags would be less than $1000 so that cuts the cost down considerably.I think I will try to buy some maize and appoint some of the pastors to give it to more needy families. That may stop some starvation. Not all the families need help. Up on top of the mountain they have good crops. so they there is no shortage there to my surprise they have build a road to the top. If I don't load too heavy, I can load some in the land cruiser.

One other thing i need help with. We have five pastors here in the Kasei region that work very hard delivering the gospel but receives only God's blessing for it. If I had five volunteers that could pay $ 100 a month for their salary. that would give them a bout ksh 6000 that would help them feed their families. some of them have eight or nine children.

If you wish to be on the email list for newsletters , send a note to Mike Hervey at
HawnIM@gmail.com and he will put you on the update list. We can also mail newsletter to you if you send us your address.

God Bless you all, keep praying there is much to do.
Leroy and Mary

Newsletter 1 SEP 08

Hawn International Missions, Inc. Issue 1
UPDATE

Well, it has been way too long since we’ve been able to make real contact with
everyone, but we hope to have that problem remedied now. So much has happened since we left for Kenya on July 6th, 2008. We are so thankful for the prayers and financial help at Crossroads for our success, and all the friends who have helped us fulfill this calling. The Lord is on our side and we have been richly blessed in our work here. We know it has only been through the prayers and intervention of those back home. The send off we got from Sunny Knik Chapel was amazing, and all the folks at Wasilla Christian stood in the gap for us they have every time the Lord has called on them to help. You have all been fantastic. Please do not stop praying for us. We have purchased a truck, a 2002 Toyota, diesel.

It is a Landcruiser Pick up , a very well built rig with heavy duty springs under it. Heavy front bumper and grill guard. the bumper has a place to mount a winch. It was used to transport tours around and has six seats behind for seven Americans to sit in comfortably, (probably 20 Africans when over crowded).

It has a canvas covered over rack. That is well built above the bed. Than can be unbolted and removed. to install a pump hoist. or we could pull a trailer with a pump hoist mounted on it. Seats up on the ground in good shape. I think it would be rated a one 1 tone by American standard. It has a diesel engine.

This truck will be our foundation equipment in the work and has already been instrumental in getting food to famine torn areas of Kenya, as well as taken sick children to the hospital, and taking ministers to church. We have much to tell you all, and will be sending much more information in the coming days. Just know for know we are well, we have found a house to rent, and are busy in the Lords work. Many souls are being added to the Kingdom every meeting. New churches will soon be built. Here is our contact information

LMhawn@gmail.com Send us an emial, we would love to hear from you

If you wish to be on the email list for newsletters , send a note to Mike Hervey at
HawnIM@gmail.com and he will put you on the update list. We can also mail newsletter to you if you send us your address.

Send Donatins to

Michaek Hervey, H.I.M.

PO Box 872889, Wasilla, Alaska 99687-2889

God Bless you all, keep praying there is much to do.
Leroy and Mary

Well, first posts are always hard

Well.....here goes. I'm a 57 y.o., technically challenged baby boomer who gas started a blog! What's next... reservations for the next space shuttle? Hair implants, twitter? But hey. It is 2009, and if we are to keep up, keep going, keep forward momentum, we need to use the technology available. So......

African Missions, Hawn International Missions now has a blog. In it I will share what is happening; the dreams, goals, hopes, success and frustrations of this work. We try and do good, we seek the call of God, His leading and direction. We are led, we believe to do this work, and yet we are imperfect beings, just people like everyone else, weak, sinful, flawed, scared, proud, joyful, tired, energized, striving, dreamers.... just like you. I will share the foundations of this work, what we are doing, why we are doing it. You who follow this Blog will discover the foundations of the ministy, the NEWSLETTERS will be posted, pictures as I can - as the Blog site will allow. All of that. But I do not only intend on putting the happy face here. You will also share the disappointments, the difficulties, the doubts. I think maybe this is not done, maybe people who help , those who have interest want only the best light, the happiest face, the most faith. Maybe. But somehow I feel that the 'news' done this way no longer has life, no longer applies to real life. In real life things don't always go right, don't always work out. Real life has speed bumps, flat tires, upset stomachs. So, with God's help, and some trepidation, I hesitate forward. I will share this blog with all the supporters of Hawn International Missions (HIM) and anyone else who wants to visit. All are welcome. More soon.