Leroy and Mary coming home

Hello to everybody.
We want to thank everyone again for your prayers and the donations to our ministry. I know it is a bit early for the newsletter, but Mary and I will be leaving Kenya Sept. 23rd (next week) for Alaska. We will try to visit as many as possible while we are home. We have been able to send another truck load of maize into the Kasei area to ease the famine a bit. It is preventing as much starvation as we can. The problem with famine is still very real. We will continue to fight starvation! Many of the children are eating dirt to fill their bellies. This opens a brand new avenue for disease and infections. Simple things we take for granted like vegetablesthat they need for protein just aren’t there. One bright spot though is that Kathy Tierney, a Nurse, has arrived to take our place while we are in the States. She has opened a Clinic on the veranda of the Mission House at Kamketo. She has a friend named Jennifer McClain who is a emergency room Nurse who will spendthe month of October assisting Kathy with the clinic. Two men who are also Christians from the church that Kathy attends in Redmond Oregon are coming to help in late October. Redmond Christian Church is helping to sponsor all of them for this project. May God Bless in every thing they do. Mary and I will be staying at the home of Anita Cork in Wasilla Alaska. Anita is going to do some traveling while we are there to watch the house. Our phone number will be 907-376-7875 if you need to contact us. Our email address will be the same. Our P.O. Box 873825,Wasilla, Alaska, 99687, would love to hear from you. We do want to visit with friends and relatives in the lower 48. Don’tknow how or when we will be able to do this, but I am sure the Lord will work it out. I think we have some air miles saved up, don’t know how far it will take us, so if you have any frequent flyer miles you are not using we could sure use the help. Most of Mary’s family live in Alaska, but she, like me, has relatives all over the U.S.A. We have Churches that have helped support us that we need to report first hand what we have done the last year. Mary and Kathy will pick out some photos to send. We ask you to share them with folks who don’t have a computer. We want all of you to know it is a real blessing for Mary and I to get to serve the Lord in this way. Your help to us is the extended hand of GOD. We praise you for that too. LOVE YOU ALL, HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON, Leroy, Mary and Kathy