Saturday, April 3, 2010

Lois Letters #2


GREETINGS TO ALL,

FOR THOSE OF YOU FRIENDS WHO HAVE VISITED IN KENYA, WE HAVE ANOTHER VERY SAD NEWS. MAGGIE, OUR BELOVED KITCHEN WORKER FOR ABOUT TEN YEARS, HAS LOST HER HUSBAND. WEDNESDAY NIGHT IT POURED ALL NIGHT AND EVEN THE JUCTION OF OUR STREET WAS LIKE A RIVER. WAMBUA DID NOT RETURN HOME WED. NIGHT, BUT SHE CAME TO WORK THURS. MORNING THINKING HE WOULD APPEAR THAT DAY. BUT WHEN HE DID NOT APPEAR THE SECOND DAY, SHE CAME CRYING AND SAYING SHE HAD TO LOOK FOR HIM. THEY BEGAN LOOKING FOR HIM AND HE WAS FOUND THIS MORNING IN THE RIVER NEAR THE POLICE STATION. WAMBUA HAD BEEN SAVED AT BETHEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH SO JUST ANOTHER REASON WHY WE ARE SO HAPPY GOD CALLED US TO KENYA.

PLEASE PRAY FOR MAGGIE AND HER 2 CHILDREN, TITUS IN 8TH GRADE, AND LITTLE LOIS WHO IS ONLY THREE. SHE HAS ALREADY BEEN ASKING, “Mom, where is our dad?”

I, LOIS, MADE A HUGE MISTAKE BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT HOYT WAS TO GO OFF SOME OF HIS OLD MEDICINE WHEN HE STARTED A SECOND NEW ONE. AFTER HIS RAPID DECLINE AND A VISIT BACK TO THE DR. WE LEARNED THAT TAKING HIM OFF THE OTHER MEDICINE COULD HAVE CAUSED HIM TO GO INTO SHOCK, ETC, SO PRAISE GOD WE DID NOT HAVE ANOTHER TRADEGY. NOW HE IS BACK ON ALL MEDS AS HE WAS SUPPOSE TO BE AND AGAIN MAKING SOME PROGRESS, GOD IS SO GOOD.

WE ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS (WITH DIANE) ON APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOSTER PROGRAM, BUT ARE IN SERIOUS NEED OF MORE FOSTER HOMES. I BELIEVE THEY ARE THERE, BUT WE JUST NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT. WE ARE VISITING A LOT OF HOMES. IT CONTINUES TO POUR, SO YESTERDAY, DIANE, TO HER DELIGHT, AND THE GUYS WENT OUT ON MOTOR BIKES TO MAKE HOME VISITS. SHE ENJOYED THE RIDE REGARDLESS OF A SHORT DRENCHING, BUT I WAS GLAD THAT I HAD STAYED AT HOME.

GRAVINOS ARE OUT ON BREAK FROM COLLEGE TEACHING. BUT DON’T KNOW IF WE CAN REALLY CALL IT A BREAK. THEY HAVE BEEN HELPING IN THE KITCHEN AND ARE BOTH SCHEDULED FOR BIBLE STUDIES, ESL CLASSES, AND TUTORING AND WORK WITH THE GRACE HOME KIDS. THREE GCH KIDS WILL BE BAPTISED ON EASTER SUNDAY. THEY ARE REALLY GROWING IN THE LORD. ONE OF THE MOTHERS WAS SICK ONE NIGHT LAST WEEK SO MESEMBI PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT NIGHT THAT GOD WOULD HEAL HER. IN THE MORNING WHEN SHE WAS WELL HE TOLD HIS MOM HOW HE WAS GOING TO SCHOOL TO TESTIFY HOW THE LORD HAD HEALED HER. A FEW WEEKS AGO WE WERE VISITING ANOTHER CHURCH AND LITTLE VICTOR STOOD IN FRONT AND SAID VERY LOUDLY, “MY NAME IS VISTOR AND I LOVE JESUS”. PEOPLE WERE TOUCHED TO HEAR A SMALL BOY GIVE SUCH A TESTIMONY INFRONT OF THE CHURCH.

KENYA IS VERY GREEN AND LUSH WITH ALL THE RAIN. WE DO GET A FEW HOURS OF WARN SUNSHINE EVERYDAY TO DRY THE LAUNDRY.

WEDNESDAY MORNING PASTOR CHRIS LAID IN BED NOT WANTING TO GET UP AND GO DO CHAPEL AT THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL. HE ALMOST CALLED THE PRINCIPAL TO SAY THAT HE COULD NOT MAKE IT, BUT THE LORD REMINDED HIM THAT HE HAD CALLED HIM TO PREACH SO HE SHOULD GET UP AND FUFILL HIS CALLING. HE GOT UP AND WENT TO PREACH TO THE KIDS, AND 2 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS WERE SAVED. PLEASE PRAY THEY WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AS PASTOR CHRIS CONTINUES TO MENTOR THEM. JUST A FEW YEARS AGO PASTOR CHRIS WAS A DRUNKARD. THANKS TO YOUR PRAYERS AN GIVING HE WAS SAVED, WENT THROUGH OUR BIBLE COLLEGE AND IS NOW LEADING OTHERS TO THE LORD.

KEEP PRAYING, KEEP GIVING, KEEP SERVING, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. WE WILL REAP IF WE FAINT NOT.

LOVE,
HOLO

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