Maroon Bell mountains near where we used to live in Colorado and fall Aspen and a September dusting of snow the week before we moved to Africa.

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Maroon Bell mountains near where we used to live in Colorado and fall Aspen and a September dusting of snow the week before we moved to Africa

GMT -4… Our time zone is 4 hours east of Greenwich Central Ky is GMT +4 Colorado is GMT +6

Horn of Africa Nairobi is 70 miles south of equator

A Christian Life Ethic… Col 3:23 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men NIV

James 4:17 17 Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins. NIV

By grace we are saved by faith, not works, and… Eph 2:10 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. NIV

The Commission Mark 13:10 10 And the gospel must first be preached to all nations. NIV

West Nairobi School

NICS.ORG

Kwa nini? Why? John 9:2-3 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 3 "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. NIV

27 December 2007 Election, rigging, mayhem US Embassy: “business cannot continue as usual” Tribalism

Genocide? Land issues? Complicity? Murder? Money for a day?

“Here I stand, I can do no other” Isa 7:9 If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. NIV

GoK: “Just go home”

Christmas in Kenya

I know that everything God does will endure forever; Eccl 3:14 NIV

A Prayer and a Challenge… 2 Thess 1:11-12 We constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. NIV

We work hard, not to earn God’s favor, but because we have God’s favor Dr. Michael Johnson

“Don’t mess with my baby!”

Habari gani? A flat tyre?

Praise & Prayers Praise: Prayers: For personal safety through all the violence The 11 Sudanese doctors who finished training and are back in their homeland Prayers: For the African church to stand firm as the tribe of Jesus. For opportunities in discipleship of young students and medical professionals. For the ongoing improvement of medical care in Kenya as a Christian witness and outreach. For work among Muslims and other challenging groups For Will & Wendi and Joe as they move into their work

PLEASE PLEAD! Matt 9:37-38 "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." NIV Our friends working in closed/creative access nations cannot ask for prayer; they ask for pleadings instead. What a powerful concept of prayer!