Kenya update, March 2011
Salamu kwa Jina la Bwana! (Greetings in the Name of the Lord!) J
I can’t believe it is already March!! How is the time going so quickly? The last month has been busy with just normal life. I am still working part time with St. Vincent at the International School of Indianapolis. I also have started house cleaning for a family twice a week and continue to help out my family twice a week. The Lord has been so good to give me lots of opportunities to enjoy my family and friends. I am so blessed and want to make the most of my time here with them. I have been able to continue working on my online classes. I am studying the New Testament and its history right now. What always amazes me is how living and active God’s Word is. That even though it was inspired and written thousands of years ago, it is still applicable and transforming lives today.
July is quickly approaching, and I am continuing in my preparations for leaving, Lord willing, July 14th. I am so thankful to the Lord for his provision through dear friends like you. Please continue to pray for me as I continue in partnership development for the ministry at RVA. I am at about 33% of the needed monthly pledges and about 75% of the outgoing funds. I need to be 100% pledged by June for AIM to allow me to go to Kenya at the proposed date. Also, could you be praying for me as I find ways to connect with other churches in this partnership in ministry? The Lord is so good, and I know His timing is perfect. I trust that He will provide when He wants me to be there. Thank you so much for your continual prayers for me. I am so thankful for all of you. If you are part of a group or even if you would like to go out for coffee and hear more about what I will be doing at RVA specifically, I would love to do that with you! Please just send me and email and let me know and we will make it work. J Also, please email me if you have anything you would like me to be praying specifically for you!
At my home church, Castleview, we have been learning from Philippians. Paul’s prayer for the fellow believers is what I pray for you. That our love would grow for the church, the body of Christ, and that we would have unity that comes from the joy we share in our salvation! I pray that we would grow in our knowledge of Him and that we would have discernment in the relationships that God puts in our lives.
Philippians 1:3-11 “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”
Specific Prayer requests:
-the Lord’s continual provision for support and building relationships with other churches
-time management for Bible classes
- please continue to pray for my Dad.. The Lord has been so good to give him strength for the heavy work load at Kijabe hospital.. He also has several opportunities for serving at Tenwek Hospital later this year and will need wisdom for what to do with our house if it does not sell.
- heart preparation for serving these young women I will be living with at RVA.
Asante Sana marafiki! (Thank you so much friends)
Serving with you,
Amy
