In 10 days we embark on our journey to Africa. Over a year ago we started to entertain the thought of going on a missions trip to Kenya as a family. At first we thought it would be in January and were wrestling with how feasible it was to take our kids out of school for two weeks. As we were contemplating that, the trip was changed to the end of March and right over our spring break. Needless to say we felt that was a big green light. In September 2011 we made the final decision to go and on March 28th, Lord willing we will board the plane. We will be headed to Nairobi, Kenya and get a chance to see first hand what God is doing for orphans at two homes called Sanctuary of Hope where 23 kids live. These kids once lived in the slums and are now thriving in a loving home. I hope to share our trip with you to a certain degree. I am not sure how much time or access to the internet I will have so I may have to post after we get home, but would sure appreciate your prayers as we go. The kids are very excited and Pete and I are too. At this point I am done with anticipation and I just want to get on the plane.
We will be doing some construction on a wall at one of the homes, spend some time doing home visits in the slums and some health visits also. We will do some vacation bible school type activities with the kids at the Mathare Valley school. We will be doing things we don't even know yet and hopefully in all of what we do, sharing the love and good news of Jesus Christ. There are nine of us going from Montana and others from across the country. I believe there are around 25 of us going. We have been divided up into small groups for some of our time in Kenya. We have had 3 different conference calls with our small groups up to now and have been able to read each others bios, but I am really looking forward to meeting up with our whole group and continuing the bonding process. We pray that in all we do God will be greatly glorified. More later.
Diane
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