news from kenya

Hello,
I finished my course in conflict management and teambuilding well last week and am now back to the ministry in the Hospital. Of course I had to take some homework with me which I completed last Friday. I was very proud of my wife for the way she took care of the ministry during my absence. It was extremely busy for her and she was called all the time to either translate or console patients or make peace between quarelling parties. But I think she also enjoyed it. Last week has been interesting here in the Hospital, because the number of people who are learning Somali is steadily increasing. For two weeks now we have a young family from Hong Kong who have spent about 6 months studying Somali and they are looking into ministry opportunities, and one them is our Hospital. We are very curious to see whether God is going to lead them into our team and ministry. We would be very glad. Another one is a young surgeon with his wife who spend about 2 months studying the same language and are very eager to get more into the ministry of the gospel. He does a lot of operations on somali patients but he also wants to share more with them of the love of Christ. So every time we see one another we drop english and start up a conversation in Somali. That is a lot of fun and it gives us a feeling of a growing impact in this place where we are. It seems the Lord is raising more and more workers for the field which is white for the harvest.

Hope you have a great week and be blessed of the Lord, Thomas