update February 17th 2009

Hello to everyone,

We have had some great news, our work permits have been extended for 3 more years. We go to Nairobi to pick up the paper work this coming week and renew our drivers license’s. It is hard to believe that we have been here over a year this past December. We have learned a lot while being here mostly the hard way, but God has always showed Himself strong even when we were fighting against him. We sure have had much opportunity for character building and I wish we had always passed the test, but I guess we have passed more as we have learned and died to ourselves. So much for that, we are people growing in Christ like all of us on this walk.

Tabula is coming this week to stay in Narok and start the trips to Nairobi. She will have to go to Nairobi each week to have a permeant implant made for her mouth. This will take 5 to 6 weeks. The young lady that is the interpreter is Massi and Tabula is to stay with her durning this time. She is the lady we took for surgery back in September and she stayed with us a month getting her strength back form the surgery. Last time she didn’t want to go home and we had to get very firm with her. It’s not all bad she is a funny lady and can be very pleasant. But we have been advised not to house people we are working with in our home. So we are taking this to heart and she will enjoying being around people she can talk to. I will attach a before and after picture on here if the internet allows. and if not, I will post them when I get to Nairobi were we can find high speed internet. So be looking for the pictures.

We have made a decision to move from where we are living now to a smaller place with less yard and up keep.. As you may know, Kenya is one of the most corrupt countries in Africa and that is saying a lot! So, due to some questionable decisions on the land lord’s side we have decided to move and will be in the new place in April. Pray that all goes well durning this transition. Yes we will be taking some of the chickens and all of the turkeys. We are eating one turkey this weekend for a birthday celebration and so he will not be here for the big move. We have given half of the chickens away and plan on giving more away and taking only a few favorites. They had gotten out of control in numbers so it already seems a relief to me to have less!

Dollie and I will be helping start a prophetic school in Nairobi and it will be starting in April. We are excited and have seen the hand of God and give us favor in this area. Please pray that it will go well and we will serve up a lot of good things for them to eat from God’s banquet table.

Dollie and I made a video of Leonard and I can’t seem to get it on to the blog. I have sent it out by e mail and posted it on Facebook, but if you haven’t seen it and would like to please email me at pennyinkenya@gmail.com and I would love to send it to you. Thanks to my dad I got a great new video camera for Christmas, so I hope to be able to send a lot more moving pictures for all to see.

Our team is coming on May 23 through June 6th there is still time if anybody wants to sign on and come with the dental, medical and spiritual outreach. We would love to have you join us, contact me at the above email address and I will get you in touch with the people state side that set it all up. We are going to 1 new area and we are very excited to be working with some orphans and seeing a new area of Kenya that KMO has never been to.

Blessing to all

Penny and Dollie