Thanksgiving

It is November 21. I do trust your Thanksgiving Day is a blessing to you. We continue to pray our lives “will be an alleluyah, a gift of praise to God our King.” We also remember thanks to our God for His Gift to us, which we are trying to share with others.

This week has brought some changes for us, which we know are God’s leading and which we know He will continue to make clear. Due to a series of conversations and events, Kennedy and his wife will be leaving us within a few days to go back to where they came from to pick up the ministry they were in before they came to Bible School. They go with our blessings. We are thankful for their help while they have been here.

Thanks for praying for Ndegwa. He had a good time of learning in Nairobi. He arrived home safely yesterday, but we have not yet had time to discuss issues of the week. No word on the land in Mathaithi.

Monday evening we had a good “counseling” session with our one young man who is our first to leave our care. I had never been convinced that he knew the Lord, but that night he at least said the right things, and also had thanks for helping when he was in such need. He took our advice, counsel very well and when we saw him later in the week, was very warm – always a good sign!

Tuesday at ladies’ class, Kennedy’s wife led and did a good job. Two of the ladies caught on very quickly on how to do intarsia knitting. I was thankful.

Wednesday evening after Dad taught in prayer meeting (they answered questions very well on the lesson last week), a lady came with a paper, asking us to take in twins aged nine – a boy and girl. They are to be brought back tomorrow with a decision as to whether or not we take them. PLEASE remember us in prayer. There is a lot involved in this decision, and only God can guide us together in what to do.

Work is going forward on Ndegwa’s house in Mathaithi…. We were given some money towards it this week. We are thankful.

Friday was a special day in our town as President Kibaki came to town to lay the cornerstone for the new market. He ate lunch at the Government House next door to where our YIT boys live. Of course most of them were away in school, but some got to see him. We enjoyed the benefit of an extra clean town, and our road patched up …. For a few days anyway!! A lot of preparation went into his coming. We thought how careful all was for his coming…. Yet most don’t care/prepare for our Lord’s return. We are so thankful he had a safe time here. We tried to stay out of the way, though Carol and I did go visiting in the afternoon and were able to share the gospel with several.

Saturday classes with our youth at church went very well… we had a new girl in our group and they listened well to the Word.

Today we had 8 in deaf church. Afterwards we had prepared lunch for them at our house, which they really enjoyed… on cup of soup was left. All the rest of the food disappeared! Good service at Mathaithi this evening.

Sandy for us both