Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Happy Church
Happy Church
We were ask to speak at a little church in the area here in Narok called Majengo. We have sense found out that all towns in Kenya have a Majengo and that means the poor side of town. We use to go to the market up there and buy our vegetables and fruits, but stopped because the roads are so bad and it is hard to get to. So to say the least we haven’t been there in a long time and had forgotten how poor there area really is. Garbage in the street (more than the usual for Narok) starving dogs, cattle eating out of garbage heaps over crowded living conditions, kids running around barefoot in the mess.. I think you may get the picture. Cars are rare in Majengo so we had to pay somebody to watch our car while we ere there.
We were happy to be invited and felt the Lord wanted us to do generational repentance prayers with the people. They have 2 services Dollie was to do the first me the second one. She did hers on breaking witchcraft curses and blood covenants because this is so prevalent here.
When we first got there we were shocked at how poor the people appeared to be and how poorly the children were dressed. Some of the children look very malnourished. They were a happy bunch though!
So while Dollie was speaking I keep thinking we have to break the spiritual curse of poverty off these people! Dollie and I talked and agreed so when I spoke that is what I did. It was a very long repents prayer and with it being said in 2 languages and repeated once it seemed very long. The people seemed like they were really leaning in to what they were praying and Sarah said she could feel a lot of relief her self durning the prayers. After that I spoke on maintaining you deliverance and leading a righteous life. A lot of people here in Kenya are saved, but don’t have any fruit and lead very corrupt lives. One of the things on our heart is to help get the Church cleaned up. Being saved is good, but if you have no victory in your walk and can’t overcome strongholds in your life it is not what God intended. Pastors here seem more evil and less trustworthy than a unsaved person.
I just called the pastor to see what fruit if any came from our visits. He was very positive and wants us to come and do a 3 day conference. He said that a lot of people have seen great changes in there lives. PRAISE BE TO GOD! So we are to sit down with him the beginning of April and talk about what and when to speak again.
It is strange that they are so versed in witchcraft and know how to use it and very successfully, I will say, but have know idea how to break it off there lives. Dollie and I were working with a lady that had all kinds of curses on her from witches in her family, but she had know idea what to do about it. We had a great time in the Lord working with her and she was very surprised at how easy and how much relief she found from the simple prayers we did in 2 hours. She needs a lot more work but at least we got her some relief and it was a start.
We pray that Happy Church can grow and prosper in the Lord.
Keep us in your prayers as we go about doing what we see the Father doing!
Penny and Dollie
We were ask to speak at a little church in the area here in Narok called Majengo. We have sense found out that all towns in Kenya have a Majengo and that means the poor side of town. We use to go to the market up there and buy our vegetables and fruits, but stopped because the roads are so bad and it is hard to get to. So to say the least we haven’t been there in a long time and had forgotten how poor there area really is. Garbage in the street (more than the usual for Narok) starving dogs, cattle eating out of garbage heaps over crowded living conditions, kids running around barefoot in the mess.. I think you may get the picture. Cars are rare in Majengo so we had to pay somebody to watch our car while we ere there.
We were happy to be invited and felt the Lord wanted us to do generational repentance prayers with the people. They have 2 services Dollie was to do the first me the second one. She did hers on breaking witchcraft curses and blood covenants because this is so prevalent here.
When we first got there we were shocked at how poor the people appeared to be and how poorly the children were dressed. Some of the children look very malnourished. They were a happy bunch though!
So while Dollie was speaking I keep thinking we have to break the spiritual curse of poverty off these people! Dollie and I talked and agreed so when I spoke that is what I did. It was a very long repents prayer and with it being said in 2 languages and repeated once it seemed very long. The people seemed like they were really leaning in to what they were praying and Sarah said she could feel a lot of relief her self durning the prayers. After that I spoke on maintaining you deliverance and leading a righteous life. A lot of people here in Kenya are saved, but don’t have any fruit and lead very corrupt lives. One of the things on our heart is to help get the Church cleaned up. Being saved is good, but if you have no victory in your walk and can’t overcome strongholds in your life it is not what God intended. Pastors here seem more evil and less trustworthy than a unsaved person.
I just called the pastor to see what fruit if any came from our visits. He was very positive and wants us to come and do a 3 day conference. He said that a lot of people have seen great changes in there lives. PRAISE BE TO GOD! So we are to sit down with him the beginning of April and talk about what and when to speak again.
It is strange that they are so versed in witchcraft and know how to use it and very successfully, I will say, but have know idea how to break it off there lives. Dollie and I were working with a lady that had all kinds of curses on her from witches in her family, but she had know idea what to do about it. We had a great time in the Lord working with her and she was very surprised at how easy and how much relief she found from the simple prayers we did in 2 hours. She needs a lot more work but at least we got her some relief and it was a start.
We pray that Happy Church can grow and prosper in the Lord.
Keep us in your prayers as we go about doing what we see the Father doing!
Penny and Dollie
Update February 28th 2009
Hello to everyone! We have been doing very well. There has been a malaria and typhoid out break here in the town of Narok where we live, but we have not been effected. Sarah and her family have been hit hard with the malaria she and both the kids had malaria, but her husband wasn’t effected.
Dollie and I go on a prayer project with our home church from Knoxville, TN on March 13th- March the 23 to Israel. It isn’t a site seeing tour we are going to pray in certain areas over some issues the Lord has made clear to our pastor. We are flying Ethiopian air lines and we have Shebamiles:) We think that is cute the Queen of Sheba came form Ethiopia.
When we get back, we will move to our new home here in Narok. The knew house is smaller, but we feel this is where we are to go. Pray for us to have a smooth transition.
Tabula is here and is being hosted by a Massi family we know and she seems very happy. She can talk and interact better with them than with us. She will be here in Narok about 6 weeks going back and forth to Nairobi for her implant. She looks very good and will look better when she has teeth on the left side of her mouth.
Some of you have seen on my Facebook that I helped save a cow the other day. So I will tell the story. Around September I had a problem with my chickens and went to the district vet office that is about 100 yards from my house. I have been before and have never been impressed with who or what I saw, this day was different. I meet a very funny, large Massi man that was the vet and came to my house and found the problem with my chickens and saved the whole lot. So since then I only call on him. He was on holiday leave and I had a problem with my chickens and I called him and he came and helped me. He is a very nice man! So the other day Valentine needed her rabies shot update so I went to see Jerry. I had mentioned that she had a itching problem and he said she has parasites that is causing this I will give her a injection. We had tried everything and done everything about this problem and he had the answer when I wasn’t even asking.
So the other day James and I were in town and on the side of the road was a dying cow. It’s head was just hanging toward the ground and it was foaming at the mouth and looked like it couldn’t move it was so weak. Africans aren’t know for there kindness and concern for animals and there was a few hundred people going by doing nothing. I thought on my way home that I would go and check at the district vets office and see if Jerry was there to ask him if he could help. He wasn’t there so I called him and he was in town so I went and picked him up and we went to look at the cow. He got out in no hurry and looked at the cow and walked around it and came to my car window and said this cow isn’t going to die. I said what- its about to drop dead now. No he said it has leaches in its nose and mouth and that is why it is bleeding from its nose and mouth and is anemic that is why it is so weak, but it want die. He said I will give it an injection and it will be better in a few days. So we got in the car went back to the district office and came back to where the cow was.
When we drove up where it had been- we said were did it go? There is a river down a bank where it was standing and Jerry went Oh know! its going to take the whole town to get this cow out of the mud! I looked and it looked like it was in thick mud almost covering his head. James got a rope out of the car and was able to get a hook around its horn and pull it towards the bank so they could drag it out. It wasn’t in all mud it was water with slime over the top that looked like mud. James got the horns Jerry the tail and they pulled this rather large cow out of the water. By the time I got down there to take pictures on my phone they had it out but it looked worse and Jerry said it was drowning because it couldn’t keep its head above water it was so weak. They drugg it as far from the water as they could and Jerry gave it the injection and in 2 hours it was up. Of course the owner was not around and would have never sought treatment. I guess when he came through with his heard and collected that one he wondered how it had gotten better. It was because the white women cared and went to get the carrying vet.
Jerry is wanting to raise money and start a animal welfare type organization to help sick animals and rescue them from abusive owners. The donkeys around here need a lot of help. They are the hardest working animals in all of Kenya and this most miss treated.
My african friends that I told this to said they would have just gone on by and never thought anything, but were very glad that I cared enough to help. It was a big seen in town the white women and the little black dog helping the sick cow. We gathered a very large crowd in just a few minutes:)
We are getting excited about the up coming outreach with KMO coming up in May. We are going to a new site called Sakutick that is around the Narok area. We have found 3 children from there to take to Operation Smile for cleft pallets to be repaired. They are to go in April to have this done. There are a lot of orphans that are living with family’s from parents that have had HIV/AIDs and have died. It is a very beautiful place very green and a lot of grass and they grow potatoes up there. We are to do a walk with Jesus also with about 30 people or more that work in churches and christian organizations. Dollie and I are very excited and the group we are working with are beside themselves about us coming. It is the first time they have had a group to come and do a clinic and dental care with bible teaching.
Keep us in your prayers as we try to do what we see the Father doing!
Dollie and Penny
Dollie and I go on a prayer project with our home church from Knoxville, TN on March 13th- March the 23 to Israel. It isn’t a site seeing tour we are going to pray in certain areas over some issues the Lord has made clear to our pastor. We are flying Ethiopian air lines and we have Shebamiles:) We think that is cute the Queen of Sheba came form Ethiopia.
When we get back, we will move to our new home here in Narok. The knew house is smaller, but we feel this is where we are to go. Pray for us to have a smooth transition.
Tabula is here and is being hosted by a Massi family we know and she seems very happy. She can talk and interact better with them than with us. She will be here in Narok about 6 weeks going back and forth to Nairobi for her implant. She looks very good and will look better when she has teeth on the left side of her mouth.
Some of you have seen on my Facebook that I helped save a cow the other day. So I will tell the story. Around September I had a problem with my chickens and went to the district vet office that is about 100 yards from my house. I have been before and have never been impressed with who or what I saw, this day was different. I meet a very funny, large Massi man that was the vet and came to my house and found the problem with my chickens and saved the whole lot. So since then I only call on him. He was on holiday leave and I had a problem with my chickens and I called him and he came and helped me. He is a very nice man! So the other day Valentine needed her rabies shot update so I went to see Jerry. I had mentioned that she had a itching problem and he said she has parasites that is causing this I will give her a injection. We had tried everything and done everything about this problem and he had the answer when I wasn’t even asking.
So the other day James and I were in town and on the side of the road was a dying cow. It’s head was just hanging toward the ground and it was foaming at the mouth and looked like it couldn’t move it was so weak. Africans aren’t know for there kindness and concern for animals and there was a few hundred people going by doing nothing. I thought on my way home that I would go and check at the district vets office and see if Jerry was there to ask him if he could help. He wasn’t there so I called him and he was in town so I went and picked him up and we went to look at the cow. He got out in no hurry and looked at the cow and walked around it and came to my car window and said this cow isn’t going to die. I said what- its about to drop dead now. No he said it has leaches in its nose and mouth and that is why it is bleeding from its nose and mouth and is anemic that is why it is so weak, but it want die. He said I will give it an injection and it will be better in a few days. So we got in the car went back to the district office and came back to where the cow was.
When we drove up where it had been- we said were did it go? There is a river down a bank where it was standing and Jerry went Oh know! its going to take the whole town to get this cow out of the mud! I looked and it looked like it was in thick mud almost covering his head. James got a rope out of the car and was able to get a hook around its horn and pull it towards the bank so they could drag it out. It wasn’t in all mud it was water with slime over the top that looked like mud. James got the horns Jerry the tail and they pulled this rather large cow out of the water. By the time I got down there to take pictures on my phone they had it out but it looked worse and Jerry said it was drowning because it couldn’t keep its head above water it was so weak. They drugg it as far from the water as they could and Jerry gave it the injection and in 2 hours it was up. Of course the owner was not around and would have never sought treatment. I guess when he came through with his heard and collected that one he wondered how it had gotten better. It was because the white women cared and went to get the carrying vet.
Jerry is wanting to raise money and start a animal welfare type organization to help sick animals and rescue them from abusive owners. The donkeys around here need a lot of help. They are the hardest working animals in all of Kenya and this most miss treated.
My african friends that I told this to said they would have just gone on by and never thought anything, but were very glad that I cared enough to help. It was a big seen in town the white women and the little black dog helping the sick cow. We gathered a very large crowd in just a few minutes:)
We are getting excited about the up coming outreach with KMO coming up in May. We are going to a new site called Sakutick that is around the Narok area. We have found 3 children from there to take to Operation Smile for cleft pallets to be repaired. They are to go in April to have this done. There are a lot of orphans that are living with family’s from parents that have had HIV/AIDs and have died. It is a very beautiful place very green and a lot of grass and they grow potatoes up there. We are to do a walk with Jesus also with about 30 people or more that work in churches and christian organizations. Dollie and I are very excited and the group we are working with are beside themselves about us coming. It is the first time they have had a group to come and do a clinic and dental care with bible teaching.
Keep us in your prayers as we try to do what we see the Father doing!
Dollie and Penny
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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
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
Monday, February 2, 2009
A visit with Leonard
Penny and I went to see Leonard at Mercy Clinic in Olmekenyu last Thursday and had a great visit. Leonard is the 12 yr boy who has TB and as a result the disease caused him to suffer an eating a way of his nose and vocal cords. For those of you who don't know his situation, he took a hit to the face by a ball and then came in to contact with Tuberculosis while in a local hospital. His parents had tried for 3 years to get the correct diagnosis and treatment,but failed with the existing health care system in a rural area. So KMO and it's partners combined together with prayer,funds and some determination to finally get a diagnosis for Leonard. Leonard has been on TB medication for 4 months and will continue to take medication for 2 more months. During the visit, Leonard teared up and shared with us he is back in school and has experienced some improvement with his vocal cords. Hopefully Leonard will get a skin graft to make a nose for him after completing the TB drug regime. He had not been in school because of the shame of the disease for 2 years. We can't wait for the team to see him that saw him last year and see how good he looks.
The next day we went to the home of a North Carolina missioner family that we had meet in Narok. They live at the Masi Mara game reserve gate that we go through every year. It is Travis and Laurie Sawyer and there 3 girls Sarah, Summer and Savannah and another on the way. They are with the African Inland Church (AIC). It was good to be around people that sounded like me. Country! They are a very sweet family and he can work on anything and has such a supply of tools like we had never seen. He has a Chevrolet truck that they shipped over with 3 years worth of parts, 2 4 wheelers. They have a big time. There view was unbelievable, they sit on a hill over looking the game reserve and you can see for miles.
There smallest one Savannah is 1 year old and isn't used to seeing white people. She keep running from us and crying. I thought that was so funny we are used to the african children that don't see whites crying but I would have never thought of a white child doing it. There are 3 families that live there on the compound. We meet 1 of the of the other families they had been there for 12 years and had 4 children they seemed to be around the ages of 14 to 6.
It was good to see how they all lived. Travis and Laurie use solar, wind and generators to run there place. They brought all there appliance etc with them from the states. We were advised not to and for us I think we made the right decision. They live in the bush and we live more in town. He helped us with KMO's generators and was a great help. We had lunch with them and ate American food sloppy joe's with homemade rolls, and fried potatoes. That was so good for me. When there families come I think they bring a lot of food items with them.
Travis talked of a medical clinic way back in the bush built by a retired dentist that looked like a dentist office in the states. The man that built it wants 12 dentist to sign up for 1 month a year and come back that same month every year. They had very nice looking places to stay and high tech equipment. He had pictures of it.
We had a very good visit and am sure Dollie and I will be back to see them again and we have invited them to come and see us. We learned a lot more of the cultural every time we run into Americans that have worked here for years. Good information. They have been here 3 years and will go home on the 4th and then be back for 3 home on 4th.
Thanks for all your prayers and taking your time to read our updates.
Blessing to all
Penny and Dollie
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