I’ve been in Kenya for two weeks and
just wanted to thank you so much for your prayers, your encouragement and your
financial support! I can’t tell how much I have been blessed by all of you! I
got to Kenya Monday afternoon, Nairobi time, after four uneventful flights, my
longest of which was 13 hours. No exciting travel stories and my bag even got
here with me!
Kenya is awesome and I am
absolutely loving being here. Among other things I’ve gotten to do, last Friday
I went to the biggest slum in Africa, Kibera, visiting a school there. I have spent
most of this week in Swahili lessons and am now practically fluent (just
kidding). I’ve also attended lots of Bible studies and have been blessed beyond
words by the Kenyan Christians. It is thrilling to see how God is transforming
lives and raising up a faithful and mature generation of Christians at
Cornerstone Faith Assembly, the church I’m attending with the Coates
family. Also on my list of
accomplishments, I've seen baboons, held a chameleon, eaten arrowroot and
breathed in lots of pollution. Memorable. J
This Saturday I went to a juvenile
detention type center where boys are placed when they are taken off the
streets. It is mind blowing how far it has come in the past year or so thanks
to Tom, a Christian from Kenya who has given up his job to volunteer there. It
has been transformed from a place of despair and boredom to a place of hope,
where God’s Word is made known and where they enable the boys to prepare for
the future. I will be going to teach
English and I know God will use even that to show His great love to those boys.
Tuesday, May 28th I will be going
with the Coates family to the desert, to Turkana. We’ll be gone a little over a
week and will be doing hut to hut evangelism, teaching and preaching. We will
go to a village that has never heard the gospel before. What an incredible
thought, that we will be sharing Bible stories they’ve never before had the
chance to hear.
Please pray:
-for safe travels and good health. It’s a two day drive
and will be extremely hot in the desert, with lots of mosquitos.
-that the villages would be receptive and open to us
coming in and for sensitive hearts in Turkana that would be eager to accept the
gospel.
-that we would be extremely sensitive to the Holy Spirit,
filled with love and sustained by grace, to speak God’s word and boldly
proclaim the salvation found in Christ alone.
Thanks again,
Tabitha
Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be
given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel…
Ephesians 6:19
