Thursday, February 13, 2014

Today was another work session for Ellen and Dawn.  While RUN Kenya board members met and interviewed architectural candidates for the Training Center plans, Ellen and Dawn spent the day trying to put into words a way to cast the vision for this work.  We need to capture the hearts and minds of Kenyans and Americans who will see the value of lifting people out of spiritual and economic poverty by placing a milk cooling station on the land in Sibanga.  Our Kenyan board members need your prayers.  Since we arrived nearly two weeks, each member has experienced at least one family member being hospitalized.  This is making communication with each other difficult and good decisions are not being made on a timely basis.

Prayer points:

1.      Acting Director, Isaac Gikonyo’s brother has suffered a stroke and is hospitalized.  Pray for his healing.  Pray also for Isaac who is taking a Master’s level course and writing his thesis, pastoring a church, heading up the RUN board, and looking after his own family.

2.      Samuel Wafula recent lost his grandfather and now has experienced the death of an aunt.  When a family member dies in Kenya, it is the financial responsibility of the extended family to help with expenses which include the funeral, transportation and a large meal to serve hundreds of mourners.

3.      Pray for Ellen and Dawn to move with God’s timing.  The excitement over the milk cooling station is building and there is pressure to move quickly.  This makes it difficult for them to discern God’s timing versus the timing of an eager community.