Tuesday, July 19, 2011

God is on the Move..when is he not


Chasing the Call- Chicken Farming from Caleb Schaubroeck on Vimeo.
Teresa and her self-help group received a charcoal
oven on a micro loan from us to expand their business. 
God is so faithful! I can't tell you enough how amazing he has been for us here in Kenya and especially in the IDP camps. His favor had been with us since the beginning almost a year ago when we began planning. This week has been evidence of all of this as projects are finally well on the move. Plowing for the 2 acre peanut farm is underway and will be complete on Thursday except for a portion that will hold a large tent over this coming weekend for an ILI conference. God provided a way for me to meet the President of the ILI (International Leadership Institute) several months ago in Boone, NC and since then He has opened up doors for an ILI conference to come to the IDP camps to train Christian Leaders of all denominations and backgrounds. What is most exciting of all to me is that the training is done by Kenyan pastors from around this region and the training and teaching will be done in Kiswahili. Praise be to God for going before us and providing ways for his people to better hear the good news here in a place with little hope! Teresa (the woman who is chairman of a baking self-help group) is being hired by us for the weekend to cook lunch and chai for 40+ attendees to this conference. We also are able to hire another group from within the camp to provide the 40 chairs we need for all of the trainers and trainees.


Chairman John Ngotho checking on the chicks hatching from the homemade incubator.

Samuel and Sabina are members of the newly formed Peanut Growers Company
that began plowing last week. Please pray for motivation and hard work for these men and women.

The day after we bought the oven, Teresa began to build a kitchen by her house and within 2 days she had sold 500 biscuits and made significant profit. This group now has pride for their work..Praise God! 
Another guy my age has save the equivalence of $180 from his work planting trees and about $5 a day. God has given us the opportunity to help him pay for a used motor bike that he will use as a piki taxi in a nearby town. Nate is busy at work building some beds for an orphanage that is run by one of our dear friends here.What a week of blessing! Thank you for your prayers. God is answering them; he is answering more than we prayed for. The next video will be up shortly..so stay tuned! ---Henry

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