Washers Update

Hi Y'all,

It is May 11. I didn’t write last night due to feeling pretty yucky with malaria. … feeling some better today.

In the routine goings of things, I found out that one of our new students is a trained seamstress. She was going to teach the ladies today how to cut out a shirt with no pattern. I would love to have been there, but couldn’t.

Wednesday night the mother of Anne , the girl who is living at Pastor Ndegwa’s house, came to church for the first time. It was so good to see her again. We had met her on visitation. Come to find out she is a sister to one of the ladies who attends all the time!

Our ladies knitting group at the church has not grown in number, and the mother of the boy we took in last week, left to be with her husband. We will miss her. She came on Wednesday night to say “thank-you” for taking her son in.

Thursday we had some good contacts with people with visited at the hospital... one a relative of a man in our church. Then, Saturday, Sam's wife (he is one of our Kenyan "kids" from years ago), safely gave birth to a baby girl.

Saturday morning we had a meeting here with our YIT leaders, which went well. We are thankful for a good working team.

Sunday we had eleven in deaf church, with a young couple coming together for the second time. She is hearing, he deaf, with a newborn. They don’t live near, so it is a challenge to come. The message was good. We trust they will come again.

We had a nice Mother’s Day meal here with Papa and Mama . It was special to have Mama for another annual celebration! She is 89 this year.

This morning three young guys arrived safely from GA. and plan to be here for almost three weeks. We trust their experience witll be a blessing, enriching and heart opening to the needs.

Today we had our regular Tuesday afternoon class. I wrote above that the group hadn't grown. Well, today we had three new young ladies...two of whom we had met on visitation and had contact with off and on (mostly off!). So, I was so thankful to the Lord for His help in sharing the Word in Swahili with no pre-planned lesson (not the way I usually do things). Kennedy's wife was such a help in the meeting.

All for now, and have a blessed rest-of-the-week.

Sandy for us both

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Terry & Sandy Washer

tswasher@gmail.com