Painting #4

cravings of a human heart
16x20 Acrylic on canvas
New painting for sale $50.00

Donate today and your gift will be doubled!

Our deadline for payment for the Kenya trip is supposed to be December 1st. Thankfully we got an extension. :-) For anyone who donates today, November 29th, your gift will be doubled! An anonymous donor has offered to match your gift up to $500! God bless you all for your support!

Quotes from Kenya

I write frequently to a few children in Kenya, including my sponsored child, who is 10 years old. A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter from him and from another boy who is 13. They do not know each other. They do not live close to each other, but both of them wrote about the same concern: hunger. Please read their quotes and pray for the people in Kenya. Thank you!

"My country is experiencing hunger and famine. Pray for us." -Mutuma, age 10

"In our area many people are harvesting corn and planting potatoes. Though some places in Kenya, people are dying of hunger. Please pray for my country. My father is working hard to provide basic need in our home. The [Compassion] project is also assisting us with food. I want to share with you a memory verse from Luke 9:58. It says 'and Jesus said unto him, foxes have holes and birds of air have nests but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head.' Thank you for supporting me. God bless you." -Kiuna, 13 years old

If you are interested in sponsoring a child, please visit www.compassion.com
If you are interested in supporting our trip to Kenya in March, please consider donating on this website.
Most importantly, please PRAY for the people in Kenya, for our safety, and that we will serve Christ and make Him the focus of our trip!

Thank you so much for your support!
Love in Christ,
Elizabeth

African Children's choir

so last night we went and saw the African Children's choir perform. They were incredible, and great stories of changed lives! It made us even more excited about the Kenya trip! Elizabeth took this video of their last song.

Our hope

I love this passage. God is in control and we know that one day there will be no more death, all the tears will be wiped away, disgrace removed and all that call on the Lord - the poor, the needy, the least of these will be guests at the banquet of the Lord. "The world isn't out of control, and the future isn't in our hands. Sorrow, injustice, and death itself will one day end. The future is portrayed as a holy feast, with people from all the nations gathered at the banquet of the Lamb of God."

Isaiah 25

New International Version (NIV)

Isaiah 25

Praise to the LORD

 ¹ LORD, you are my God;
   I will exalt you and praise your name,
for in perfect faithfulness
   you have done wonderful things,
   things planned long ago.
² You have made the city a heap of rubble,
   the fortified town a ruin,
the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more;
   it will never be rebuilt.
³ Therefore strong peoples will honor you;
   cities of ruthless nations will revere you.
⁴ You have been a refuge for the poor,
   a refuge for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the storm
   and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless
   is like a storm driving against a wall
 ⁵ and like the heat of the desert.
You silence the uproar of foreigners;
   as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
   so the song of the ruthless is stilled. ⁶ On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare
   a feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
   the best of meats and the finest of wines.
⁷ On this mountain he will destroy
   the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
 ⁸ he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears
   from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
   from all the earth.
            The LORD has spoken.
 ⁹ In that day they will say,
   “Surely this is our God;
   we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the LORD, we trusted in him;
   let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
 ¹⁰ The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain;
   but Moab will be trampled in their land
   as straw is trampled down in the manure.
¹¹ They will stretch out their hands in it,
   as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.
God will bring down their pride
   despite the cleverness^[a] of their hands.
¹² He will bring down your high fortified walls
   and lay them low;
he will bring them down to the ground,
   to the very dust.

Safety, prayers

Friends, as we are beginning the process of getting ready for Kenya in March please pray for us. Pray for our safety especially. A Travel Warning has been issued for Kenya due to incidents relating to violence and terrorism in certain areas. It sounds like U.S. Citizens are the most at risk, although many others have been injured, killed, and affected by the attacks. Most of the areas that are listed as warnings are located along the border to the east next to somalia, but there have also been some incidents' in nairobi where we are meeting the rest of the compassion team. Please pray for direction, guidance, safety, and that if God wants us on this trip he will provide a way.
If you want to read specifics on the travel warning please click this link: Kenya Travel Warning
Thanks for your prayers, talk to you all soon.

Michael W. Smith visits Kenya

It's a windy and cold thursday night, but I'm sitting in my heated house, with my macbook and a slice of pizza. I know I take things for granted. I don't have to worry about where I'm going to sleep, or whether I can fill my belly with food today, or whether I have clean water to drink. These issues don't even come up in my day to day life, but there are millions in Africa without access to clean water, without education, without clothes to wear. “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. 
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.” 


I also really liked this quote:  " Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work." - Mother Teresa