news from Kenya

Hello,
Another update from a hot and dry country in the new year. We had a good
start of the year and we all praise God for the peace which we enjoy the
last months. In this time of the year the whole country is crying out for
water so that plants can grow and food can be provided for everyone to eat.
The kids have just started school again, it was on Tuesday this week when
they went back to school and they do enjoy school for the most part. This
week it was Benjamins birthday and he had a great time with his friends
playing and having fun.
Just after christmas we got a new daughter in our house. It is a young girl
from a neighbouring country who wanted to learn more about the God we serve
and since she had no where to go we took her in. She is about 19 years old
and does not speak a word of English and Dorothy now teaches her whatever
one can teach in a day. She is very sweet and even our kids like her a lot.
And our fosterson had to give up his room in the attic so that she could
move in, but since he is a boy it is a bit easier for him to sleep at a
friends place. Anyway, for that boy we were very busy looking for a
secondary school so that he can start with the next level of education.
Considering that he condensed 8 years of education in 4 and a half years he
did pretty well. We hope that the new phase in his life will lead him to
greater concentration and he will show effort and determination as he did in
the past.
Some days ago we got interesting visits in our place, people who came from
places where you wouldn't think the Gospel is going out at all. A young man
showed up at the Hospital, he didn't look for medicine or a doctor, the only
thing he was interested in was the fellowship of believers and how to get
teaching of the book we treasure so much. He was looking for it for a while
until he was directed to us in the Hospital, that is where we welcomed him
and are able now to give him what his heart so much desires.
He is quite unfortunate, he has to walk on crutches, since somebody found
him reading the book and crushed his leg as a punishment. That was still in
that country which does not like anything to do with our book and the God we
trust.
Hope you are all doing well, and I will keep you posted, Thomas