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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