March Update
There have been some really cool things going on in the lives of our church members that I decided to give you a few testimonies of what is going on in their lives.
Emmanuel- He stood up in church and gave a testimony of what the Lord has done to heal him. He told us that for 23 years he was a crazy guy on the streets; often taking of his clothes and running all around town naked. He would come to his senses and really not like who he had become. Finally he prayer “Lord why can’t you heal me?” He said that once he prayed this that he was healed. You would never know he was a crazy person now. He is a man who has been in the teachings at the prison that Josh teaches at. He has been released on the weekends and now comes to our church! Praise the Lord for restored lives.
Abel- Abel is also a product of the Prison ministry. He was released about a month ago and is now at our church every time the doors are opened. He is being discipled by Josh and is a big encouragement on how the Word of God can change lives.
Yohann- a 14 year old boy who was a street kid that has been coming to our church for a few months ago. He has been coming to the church every week for months now. He helps out where ever he can! He told us that he was tired of living on the streets and all that living on the streets implies. We have a prayer book where church members can write down prayer requests and he wrote that he would love to be going to school. When he told us that he wanted to be off the streets we took him to this ministry that is for street kids wanting to get off the streets. He is now going to school. Having 3 meals a day and comes to church with is on Sundays. He has been on the streets for 6 years and is now getting opportunities to be restored in a few different areas. Praise the Lord for this.
Some things you can pray for us for are:
We are in need of a car that Josh can take to the bush and that that will be cheap to drive. We have found one but we really need prayer for provision to buy this car. Please keep this need in prayer. This car that we are getting is perfect for us.
We are more in need for a new church than last month. The church is growing so fast, we had people standing at out Sunday morning service. We need wisdom on where to find a place.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
February Update
I want to start off this February Update by saying thank you. Thank you for your faithful prayers for us. Thank you for your support and thank you for your words of Encouragement throughout this month. It means a lot to us
This month a prayer request has been answered, The Lord has provided a Projector for the church! The Church members seem to love it, they can clap during worship now without needing to hold a song book. And speaking about the projector, we are also going to be starting to use it to play teachings at church during the week. People will be able to come in during their lunch hour and listen to the Word of God being done through the week.
Another praise... Josh has been teaching at the local Prison and the guys seem to really be receiving the teaching and the Lord working in their lives. There have been a few guys on death row coming and listening so we are praying for their hearts. A few weeks ago a bunch of the prisoners were asking Josh if it would be ok for them to lie at their court hearings and still know that Christ was in their hearts. Josh was encouraging them to tell the truth and receive the consequences for their actions. Well one of those guys told the truth and was let out and is now going to our church. He has zeal for the Lord. He is soaking up all that he can and has shared his testimony at the church to encourage the others. Please pray for this man. He will have a tough time ahead but wants to live right.
Prayer Request... I have been telling you that we are growing out of our church building again. Well It is steadily growing and we need to do something about it. Everything in town is to expensive and we would really like to have a place that we can own and pass on to the church when the Lord moves us on. We would hate to keep paying an expensive rent and not have it going toward something that we can leave to the church. Please pray for this need. We are going to have to move no matter what. It looks like we are going to need to move out of town which might be a deal breaker since people don’t have cars.
We love you all..
Josh, Kelsey and Layla.
Oh and little miss Layla is now crawling and has 2 teeth. We can’t believe how fast she is growing!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
January
January update.
Well January started a new year with new opportunities. We are so thankful that the Lord has brought us through 2011 and are excited to see what He has for us in 2012. This past year has had some challenges, Huge blessings and interesting situations. I will say that this new year has presented some awesome things for us to be able to help with.
The a few weeks ago we were contacted by someone in the States saying that they wanted to pay for a WELL to be dug somewhere of our choice. This is not a cheap thing but the Lord really put it on their heart and asked us to oversee this whole project. There has been a church that Josh has been visiting about a hour away that has no electricity or running water. In fact they have to walk a Kilometer away to go and pay to use someone else’s WELL and then walk all that way back with their water. Obviously this is not an easy task. This is the place that we want to dig the WELL. We are so excited for the doors that this will open since the Church there is going to be the one to be giving out water. We hope it will be an awesome opportunity for people to have their physical needs met along with being introduced to the Living Water, The Word of God.
In the beginning of last month Josh traveled to a town also out in the Bush and taught the Word to about ten churches all gathered together under a tree. He had a great time but had to be taken out early because there were threats that some of the pastors were going to take him by force for ransom. This is not the most encouraging thing for us since we are spending our resources to come reach them. This is something we would like prayer for. There is a lot of greed for money and people just seeking to get all they can out of you here. The Word of Faith movement is huge out here and it is cause so many problems especially with the most poor of people. Please pray for deliverance from this and also for safety for our family.
On another note, our church is growing fast and we are going to have to move again because we are outgrowing our church building. We are hoping to get something quite a bit larger so we can be there longer. The problem is... it is very expensive to rent big rooms in town. Please pray for the Lords abundant provision for our church.
Thank you all for your support in prayers, in words of encouragement and in finances.
Josh, Kelsey and Layla.
Well January started a new year with new opportunities. We are so thankful that the Lord has brought us through 2011 and are excited to see what He has for us in 2012. This past year has had some challenges, Huge blessings and interesting situations. I will say that this new year has presented some awesome things for us to be able to help with.
The a few weeks ago we were contacted by someone in the States saying that they wanted to pay for a WELL to be dug somewhere of our choice. This is not a cheap thing but the Lord really put it on their heart and asked us to oversee this whole project. There has been a church that Josh has been visiting about a hour away that has no electricity or running water. In fact they have to walk a Kilometer away to go and pay to use someone else’s WELL and then walk all that way back with their water. Obviously this is not an easy task. This is the place that we want to dig the WELL. We are so excited for the doors that this will open since the Church there is going to be the one to be giving out water. We hope it will be an awesome opportunity for people to have their physical needs met along with being introduced to the Living Water, The Word of God.
In the beginning of last month Josh traveled to a town also out in the Bush and taught the Word to about ten churches all gathered together under a tree. He had a great time but had to be taken out early because there were threats that some of the pastors were going to take him by force for ransom. This is not the most encouraging thing for us since we are spending our resources to come reach them. This is something we would like prayer for. There is a lot of greed for money and people just seeking to get all they can out of you here. The Word of Faith movement is huge out here and it is cause so many problems especially with the most poor of people. Please pray for deliverance from this and also for safety for our family.
On another note, our church is growing fast and we are going to have to move again because we are outgrowing our church building. We are hoping to get something quite a bit larger so we can be there longer. The problem is... it is very expensive to rent big rooms in town. Please pray for the Lords abundant provision for our church.
Thank you all for your support in prayers, in words of encouragement and in finances.
Josh, Kelsey and Layla.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
December Update
December wraps up the 2011 and so much has gone on this year. We just finished the Book of Genesis and are about to finish the book of Revelation too! God is so good. The Church is doing very well. We had a service on Christmas day and they enjoyed it. It was a really powerful time of Looking at Christ and what it meant for Him to come to earth to be the perfect sacrifice. We also had a big church Christmas feast at our house that went really well. The people loved it. They were so blessed to have something like this. They said that most pastors would never do things like that at their houses.
Me and Layla are doing well. Layla got her papers though so she is officially an American citizen and a passport holder now! Thank you all for praying! This was a a BIG deal for us.
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Josh has had many opportunities to travel and teach in the past few weeks. He got to preach at a crusade and spoke to around 1000 people and a bunch or people got saved. The pictures below are of the crusade and a church that Josh shared at. There is a picture with a group of people all around him... That is a bunch of kids giving their lives to the Lord.
We thank the Lord for all of you who pray for us and support us! may the Lord bless you this Holiday season and remind you of just how great it is to serve such a wonderful KING.
Me and Layla are doing well. Layla got her papers though so she is officially an American citizen and a passport holder now! Thank you all for praying! This was a a BIG deal for us.
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Josh has had many opportunities to travel and teach in the past few weeks. He got to preach at a crusade and spoke to around 1000 people and a bunch or people got saved. The pictures below are of the crusade and a church that Josh shared at. There is a picture with a group of people all around him... That is a bunch of kids giving their lives to the Lord.
We thank the Lord for all of you who pray for us and support us! may the Lord bless you this Holiday season and remind you of just how great it is to serve such a wonderful KING.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
November update- Giving Thanks
I want to start this update with giving thanks to the Lord for my family, friends, those who support us, His mercy in taking my grandmother to be with Him quickly rather than her suffering for a long time.
Thank all who have been praying for Laylas paperwork to come in! It finally came, we had an appointment for her at the embassy and we will be getting all of her documents in about 2 weeks. This is a big deal for us!
We were given an opportunity to go to a Bible study for college students and we both got to encourage them in “Studying to show themselves approved unto God” it was a great opportunity for the Both of us to minister together.
In the beginning of this month we had no idea what we would be doing for Thanksgiving but the embassy scheduled us to be in Nairobi right before that so we spent some time with friends for Thanksgiving.
Josh spoke at CC Nairobi and we both led worship there. The church was very blessed. They are really welcoming to us whenever we come to town.
The Church is doing well. Josh asked if there was anything that they would like a bit different and their response was “We would like to have 2 services on Sunday morning. They said it was to short and they wanted MORE time in church which was a blessing for us to hear. The following week we added another service so everyone comes for both! This was strange for us because that doesn’t happen that often in the States.
Practical Prayer needs:
We have Electricity issues in this country so because of that our fridge is pretty much fried. The Freezer doesn’t work anymore and the temp in the fridge is getting bad as well. Please pray for provision for this.
Health for Josh as he travels a lot more than Layla and I and he seems to get sick a bit more than us. He is always eating strange food and going into High Malaria zones.
Josh will be traveling back to Nairobi in 2 weeks to get Layla’s legal documents so for safety and provision for that too.
Thank all who have been praying for Laylas paperwork to come in! It finally came, we had an appointment for her at the embassy and we will be getting all of her documents in about 2 weeks. This is a big deal for us!
We were given an opportunity to go to a Bible study for college students and we both got to encourage them in “Studying to show themselves approved unto God” it was a great opportunity for the Both of us to minister together.
In the beginning of this month we had no idea what we would be doing for Thanksgiving but the embassy scheduled us to be in Nairobi right before that so we spent some time with friends for Thanksgiving.
Josh spoke at CC Nairobi and we both led worship there. The church was very blessed. They are really welcoming to us whenever we come to town.
The Church is doing well. Josh asked if there was anything that they would like a bit different and their response was “We would like to have 2 services on Sunday morning. They said it was to short and they wanted MORE time in church which was a blessing for us to hear. The following week we added another service so everyone comes for both! This was strange for us because that doesn’t happen that often in the States.
Practical Prayer needs:
We have Electricity issues in this country so because of that our fridge is pretty much fried. The Freezer doesn’t work anymore and the temp in the fridge is getting bad as well. Please pray for provision for this.
Health for Josh as he travels a lot more than Layla and I and he seems to get sick a bit more than us. He is always eating strange food and going into High Malaria zones.
Josh will be traveling back to Nairobi in 2 weeks to get Layla’s legal documents so for safety and provision for that too.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
October
October Update
This past month has brought many things.
We started the month going to Nairobi and Josh got to share at a few places. The trip there and back was Layla’s first time on a bus and she did very well. Josh was asked to preach at Calvary Chapel Nairobi and it was a fruitful time. It was such a wonderful time getting to fellowship with some friends and be in the big city for a few days. Josh also got to share at a school in Nairobi.
This month has been filled with travel for Josh. He was asked to speak at a funeral way out in the bush. It was an interesting time. The funeral was in a valley surrounded by mountains there was no power, no running water. Josh has been told that he is not like other ‘Mazungu’ (White man) because when he goes to speak to places that are far away he sleeps with them in their houses, not in a hotel. This has been a cool testimony.
He was also able to go teach at a few schools in a place called Mount. Elgon. He spoke to about 750 kids at three different schools.
The Church is doing well. Josh has been teaching through the book of Revelation and it is so cool to see the church members going from afraid of what was to come and then see their eyes opened to the goodness of God even in His plan to judge the world in His justice. Their fear was taken away from the revealing of Gods plan for His people in getting them out of the way before He judges the earth. The pastors in this country have told Josh that the people are not smart enough to go through the book of Revelation which has cause a lot of fear in the people; which is why Josh is going through it. Lack of knowledge leads to fear and knowledge cast out fear. The people at the church in their new found knowledge of the book of Revelation is casting out the fear that they once had for it.
Layla and I are still doing well. She is learning all sorts of things like how to rip her pacifier out of her mouth.
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We had our friends Arie, Nasima and their 3 boys up from Nairobi for the last few days of the month. Arie spoke at the church. They were a blessing and encouragement to us. We all got to to go the Kakumaga Rain forest for fun so that was neat.
For those of you wondering, we are quite safe with all the war stuff going on but we could still use prayer for safety for us and our friends in Nairobi.
Please continue to pray for Layla’s paperwork to come through.
Church growth- in the scriptures, for the personal relationships with the Lord.
Wisdom for Kelsey to know how to reach the women here.
This past month has brought many things.
We started the month going to Nairobi and Josh got to share at a few places. The trip there and back was Layla’s first time on a bus and she did very well. Josh was asked to preach at Calvary Chapel Nairobi and it was a fruitful time. It was such a wonderful time getting to fellowship with some friends and be in the big city for a few days. Josh also got to share at a school in Nairobi.
This month has been filled with travel for Josh. He was asked to speak at a funeral way out in the bush. It was an interesting time. The funeral was in a valley surrounded by mountains there was no power, no running water. Josh has been told that he is not like other ‘Mazungu’ (White man) because when he goes to speak to places that are far away he sleeps with them in their houses, not in a hotel. This has been a cool testimony.
He was also able to go teach at a few schools in a place called Mount. Elgon. He spoke to about 750 kids at three different schools.
The Church is doing well. Josh has been teaching through the book of Revelation and it is so cool to see the church members going from afraid of what was to come and then see their eyes opened to the goodness of God even in His plan to judge the world in His justice. Their fear was taken away from the revealing of Gods plan for His people in getting them out of the way before He judges the earth. The pastors in this country have told Josh that the people are not smart enough to go through the book of Revelation which has cause a lot of fear in the people; which is why Josh is going through it. Lack of knowledge leads to fear and knowledge cast out fear. The people at the church in their new found knowledge of the book of Revelation is casting out the fear that they once had for it.
Layla and I are still doing well. She is learning all sorts of things like how to rip her pacifier out of her mouth.
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We had our friends Arie, Nasima and their 3 boys up from Nairobi for the last few days of the month. Arie spoke at the church. They were a blessing and encouragement to us. We all got to to go the Kakumaga Rain forest for fun so that was neat.
For those of you wondering, we are quite safe with all the war stuff going on but we could still use prayer for safety for us and our friends in Nairobi.
Please continue to pray for Layla’s paperwork to come through.
Church growth- in the scriptures, for the personal relationships with the Lord.
Wisdom for Kelsey to know how to reach the women here.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
“Who am I, O Lord God...that You have brought me this far?”
Bongoma School outreaches
2 Samuel 7:18
September is ending And boy has it been a packed month. Gods Grace and provision has seen us through.
Layla is 10 weeks old and is growing well. I (Kelsey) and dong well too. I am leading worship with Josh and Staying at home raising Layla. Please pray for Gods grace to raise her in the Love and Knowledge of the Lord.
This month Has been a big traveling month for Josh. He was gone for four days in the beginning of the month. Last Tuesday he went two hours away to speak at three schools and a school of ministry college. That was such a good opportunity for him. He spoke at a high school that had 1000 kids and 74 of them gave their lives over to Jesus. Since then He has been asked to share at a a conference about 60 miles from here which he is doing today Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept. 27-28) and this weekend he is going to speak at one of the most popular High schools here. It has about 2000 kids there. Josh has met this guy that has a heart to go to schools and colleges all over Kenya and wants Josh to go with him to preach. There has been a lot of great fruit from this and Josh loves it. It is so encouraging to see all these doors of opportunity swinging wide open. He is now being asked to go off to some school about once every week.
The Church is doing well. People are growing. Our Prayer is that more people can come and hear the good news of the Word of God. We Had our first children’s class 2 weeks ago and another again this past Sunday. We don’t always have a class because there are not always children. But they have been blessed to have a class just for them.
The Prison ministry is also going well. The Prisoners asked last time Josh went if he could bring a pad of paper and a pen so that they can take notes so he was able to get those things for them. Its exciting to see people want to learn.
The Lord has been so faithful to take care of our family.
Prayer Requests:
That the Church would continue to grow
For strength, provision and the Blessing of the Holy Spirit for all this traveling and all the ministries Josh is doing.
Wisdom for leading the Church
Thank you all for all your Prayers, for your support and kind words of encouragement to us.
2 Samuel 7:18
September is ending And boy has it been a packed month. Gods Grace and provision has seen us through.
Layla is 10 weeks old and is growing well. I (Kelsey) and dong well too. I am leading worship with Josh and Staying at home raising Layla. Please pray for Gods grace to raise her in the Love and Knowledge of the Lord.
This month Has been a big traveling month for Josh. He was gone for four days in the beginning of the month. Last Tuesday he went two hours away to speak at three schools and a school of ministry college. That was such a good opportunity for him. He spoke at a high school that had 1000 kids and 74 of them gave their lives over to Jesus. Since then He has been asked to share at a a conference about 60 miles from here which he is doing today Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept. 27-28) and this weekend he is going to speak at one of the most popular High schools here. It has about 2000 kids there. Josh has met this guy that has a heart to go to schools and colleges all over Kenya and wants Josh to go with him to preach. There has been a lot of great fruit from this and Josh loves it. It is so encouraging to see all these doors of opportunity swinging wide open. He is now being asked to go off to some school about once every week.
The Church is doing well. People are growing. Our Prayer is that more people can come and hear the good news of the Word of God. We Had our first children’s class 2 weeks ago and another again this past Sunday. We don’t always have a class because there are not always children. But they have been blessed to have a class just for them.
The Prison ministry is also going well. The Prisoners asked last time Josh went if he could bring a pad of paper and a pen so that they can take notes so he was able to get those things for them. Its exciting to see people want to learn.
The Lord has been so faithful to take care of our family.
Prayer Requests:
That the Church would continue to grow
For strength, provision and the Blessing of the Holy Spirit for all this traveling and all the ministries Josh is doing.
Wisdom for leading the Church
Thank you all for all your Prayers, for your support and kind words of encouragement to us.
Friday, August 26, 2011
August
August has come and gone, the cold weather is starting to warm up (and yes it gets cold in Africa!) and we are excited about the warming of the weather. We have been planting a garden so that we can grow our own Veggies too! Anyway... to our update.
My (Kelsey’s parents had been here for a month and they left on the 4th. It was such a blessing for them to be here. My dad and Josh built walls in our new place for church. If I didn’t mention it last month... we moved to a bigger place! That is a huge answer to prayer for us. We were growing out of the last one and had no place for children and now we have 2 rooms.
Josh just got approved a few days ago to go into the local prison to minister to the guys here. He will be going to one wing of the building to meet with those guys twice a month and then at the end he will get to meet with all the guys in the prison in one big meeting. He wants to take different guys from the church each time and some local pastors other times.
This past few weeks has been quite busy; Josh has been cutting down trees for a local Bible college, teaching at a worship conference, meeting up with another church and doing house to house evangelism. They had 2 people give their lives over to the Lord when they were going house to house!
We have been quite blessed with the church members. Early this month 2 of the members came in, looked around and left; an hour later they came back with 2 chairs that matched the rest of the ones that we had. We were so blessed by them really making this their home and wanting to pitch in for things.
We have had some trouble with our car this month. We had a 16 wheeler crash into the side of it in the beginning of the month and last night when we came out of church it was broken into. They broke our door lock which is a bummer because you cannot leave your car unlocked in Kenya. Please pray for the provision to fix these things.
Please continue to pray for the paper work for Layla to become an American citizen. Its quite expensive and a big process.
Pray for the members to the church to continually grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wisdom for Josh as he leads the church in worship and in teaching of the Bible.
Wisdom for Me to raise up Layla and for energy to take care of her.
May the Lord bless you all,
With love from the Lawrence family
The painted pictures are right before church...
There are some pics of church while the guys were building
Josh cutting down the tree
And Layla getting dedicated to the Lord
My (Kelsey’s parents had been here for a month and they left on the 4th. It was such a blessing for them to be here. My dad and Josh built walls in our new place for church. If I didn’t mention it last month... we moved to a bigger place! That is a huge answer to prayer for us. We were growing out of the last one and had no place for children and now we have 2 rooms.
Josh just got approved a few days ago to go into the local prison to minister to the guys here. He will be going to one wing of the building to meet with those guys twice a month and then at the end he will get to meet with all the guys in the prison in one big meeting. He wants to take different guys from the church each time and some local pastors other times.
This past few weeks has been quite busy; Josh has been cutting down trees for a local Bible college, teaching at a worship conference, meeting up with another church and doing house to house evangelism. They had 2 people give their lives over to the Lord when they were going house to house!
We have been quite blessed with the church members. Early this month 2 of the members came in, looked around and left; an hour later they came back with 2 chairs that matched the rest of the ones that we had. We were so blessed by them really making this their home and wanting to pitch in for things.
We have had some trouble with our car this month. We had a 16 wheeler crash into the side of it in the beginning of the month and last night when we came out of church it was broken into. They broke our door lock which is a bummer because you cannot leave your car unlocked in Kenya. Please pray for the provision to fix these things.
Please continue to pray for the paper work for Layla to become an American citizen. Its quite expensive and a big process.
Pray for the members to the church to continually grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wisdom for Josh as he leads the church in worship and in teaching of the Bible.
Wisdom for Me to raise up Layla and for energy to take care of her.
May the Lord bless you all,
With love from the Lawrence family
The painted pictures are right before church...
There are some pics of church while the guys were building
Josh cutting down the tree
And Layla getting dedicated to the Lord
Monday, July 25, 2011
July Update... Newness
This month has been filled with waiting, new joy and sweet reunions.
We started out this month waiting for our new baby to arrive along with my (Kelsey’s) parents flying in from the States. They flew in on my Birthday and took us out to eat which was wonderful. Josh and my dad have been building shelves for me and they hooked up my NEW Washing Machine that the Lord provided for us!!!! Did I tell you that Calvary Chapel Bangor bought us a new washing Machine??? They did and man is that a blessing!
We have been praying about moving into a new building for church because we have no place for children’s ministry and also it is getting crowded. The Lord provided most of the money needed to get into the new building which is awesome! Also it has a bathroom on the same floor as our church room. This is a big deal because in the place we are in now it is 3 flights up. Josh will need to build partitions in the new room we are getting which will be no problem but it will need a little work. WE
WE were approved today so we can start work whenever we want!
Layla was born on July 15th after 40 hours of labor. She was born by an unexpected C-section but she and I both came out safe and healthy. She was 7lbs 4oz. 19 and 3/4 inches long. She is such a new, wonderful blessing and addition to our lives. Thank you all for your prayers for a safe delivery for the both of us. The Lord showed himself strong on our behalf which is no surprise to us. He always does!
My Dad is teaching through the book of Galatians which is a huge blessing for the Church. One of the guys in our church found out he was going to be going through that book so he went home and read it. This man came and told my dad this after one of the teachings and said after reading it alone that he was really glad it was being taught because he had no idea what it meant. Praise the Lord for another opportunity to share the Word of God and to bring understanding.
Prayer requests:
People to grow in the grace and Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Quick processing for Layla Birth certificate and paperwork. (Usually that takes a very long time!)
Continual provision for the new church rent
Thank you all for your prayers and support.
Josh, Kelsey and Layla
Thursday, June 23, 2011
June Update
June Update
June has been very busy but a great blessing. It started out by us preparing for the team from the States to come visit us for two weeks. It is ending with us looking and possible locating a building for our church to move to. So lets go into detail a little bit more....
The Calvary Bangor team got to Nairobi on the 7th so we went down to meet them. It was great! The day after they got here the pastors wives of the different Calvaries and the women from the team all threw me (Kelsey) a Baby shower. It was so sweet and a nice comfort to have some old friends there as well as new ones. While we ladies were doing that Josh, Jonathan (Pastor of Living Water Christian Fellowship) and the guys from the team all went our to minister to the men from The U Turn program here. They all shared their testimonies and it was a powerful time. Jonathan said that he has never seen the guys there open up as much as they did; staying and asking questions afterward. The next day the whole team went to some big orphanages and got to give one of them a bunch of school supplies and backpacks to the kids that needed them the most. Everyone involved was so blessed to be able to see the Lord provide and to give and receive.
After four days in Nairobi the Team, Josh and I made our way to Eldoret for the next 10 days. The trip to Eldoret had many challenges
including Flat tires, running out of gas, getting pulled over twice and being asked to give bribes “or else” and many more things. It was supposed to be a 5 to 6 hour trip and turned into a 9 hour trip. It was crazy but the Lord provided for each situation and it was a blessing. While they were at our house we got to do many things. We visited and got to give school out school supplies and backpacks to the orphanage that Josh and I have gotten to know (Mwangaza). The team painted the school that is attached to the orphanage “Mwangaza” and got to make some good friends at that ministry. It was a real blessing the Mwangaza and to our team getting to serve with them. The kids loved everything. Thank you to the Lord and to Calvary Bangor for bringing all that stuff out and for coming to bless the people here.
While they were here Josh also took them out to the bush and they passed out over 100 Bibles to 3 different churches out there. One man got saved at that time and a little girl was healed of a very bad fever when the guys prayed over here. The Church was so shocked and blessed with what the Lord did there.
There were many more things that the Lord did through the team being here but those are just some highlights.
Now we have one of the guys from the team (Carl) staying with us for a few weeks longer and it has been a blessing. He is taking the church through the book of Jude for the next few Sunday nights.
We have been praying to find a church building for our little growing church that has an extra room for children’s ministry. Josh an Carl went out looking and found the perfect building that has 3 rooms and it is perfect to be there for a while. It is a significant price increase from our last rent so we would need the Lord to do a miracle in providing for the first 3 months rent and security deposit. Please pray with us for the provision and if anyone would like to get involved in helping with that cost please email us and let us know.
Prayer requests:
For provision for this church building that we are trying to get.
Our Baby is due on the 14th of July so for safety for Kelsey and the Baby as we are having the baby in Eldoret and they are a little more underdeveloped than Nairobi.
For spiritual growth in the Believers that are coming to the church. That they will be real and serious about wanting to serve the Lord.
Thank you all for your prayers and support.
Josh and Kelsey
June has been very busy but a great blessing. It started out by us preparing for the team from the States to come visit us for two weeks. It is ending with us looking and possible locating a building for our church to move to. So lets go into detail a little bit more....
The Calvary Bangor team got to Nairobi on the 7th so we went down to meet them. It was great! The day after they got here the pastors wives of the different Calvaries and the women from the team all threw me (Kelsey) a Baby shower. It was so sweet and a nice comfort to have some old friends there as well as new ones. While we ladies were doing that Josh, Jonathan (Pastor of Living Water Christian Fellowship) and the guys from the team all went our to minister to the men from The U Turn program here. They all shared their testimonies and it was a powerful time. Jonathan said that he has never seen the guys there open up as much as they did; staying and asking questions afterward. The next day the whole team went to some big orphanages and got to give one of them a bunch of school supplies and backpacks to the kids that needed them the most. Everyone involved was so blessed to be able to see the Lord provide and to give and receive.
After four days in Nairobi the Team, Josh and I made our way to Eldoret for the next 10 days. The trip to Eldoret had many challenges
including Flat tires, running out of gas, getting pulled over twice and being asked to give bribes “or else” and many more things. It was supposed to be a 5 to 6 hour trip and turned into a 9 hour trip. It was crazy but the Lord provided for each situation and it was a blessing. While they were at our house we got to do many things. We visited and got to give school out school supplies and backpacks to the orphanage that Josh and I have gotten to know (Mwangaza). The team painted the school that is attached to the orphanage “Mwangaza” and got to make some good friends at that ministry. It was a real blessing the Mwangaza and to our team getting to serve with them. The kids loved everything. Thank you to the Lord and to Calvary Bangor for bringing all that stuff out and for coming to bless the people here.
While they were here Josh also took them out to the bush and they passed out over 100 Bibles to 3 different churches out there. One man got saved at that time and a little girl was healed of a very bad fever when the guys prayed over here. The Church was so shocked and blessed with what the Lord did there.
There were many more things that the Lord did through the team being here but those are just some highlights.
Now we have one of the guys from the team (Carl) staying with us for a few weeks longer and it has been a blessing. He is taking the church through the book of Jude for the next few Sunday nights.
We have been praying to find a church building for our little growing church that has an extra room for children’s ministry. Josh an Carl went out looking and found the perfect building that has 3 rooms and it is perfect to be there for a while. It is a significant price increase from our last rent so we would need the Lord to do a miracle in providing for the first 3 months rent and security deposit. Please pray with us for the provision and if anyone would like to get involved in helping with that cost please email us and let us know.
Prayer requests:
For provision for this church building that we are trying to get.
Our Baby is due on the 14th of July so for safety for Kelsey and the Baby as we are having the baby in Eldoret and they are a little more underdeveloped than Nairobi.
For spiritual growth in the Believers that are coming to the church. That they will be real and serious about wanting to serve the Lord.
Thank you all for your prayers and support.
Josh and Kelsey
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