Life in a Third World Country

Thank you again, family & friends, for all your prayers & support! The last couple of weeks have been full, preparing for the US teams arrival. The first team arrived this afternoon. It was exciting to see Pastor Derk, Clay, Montana, Jesaca Gibson & Chase Mills from Discovery + a few new faces. We enjoyed a leisurely dinner with them at their hotel, the Margaritha.

Dennis preached last Sunday, May 27th at the Bunga Bunga Bible Fellowship, the church that meets at the orphanage. It was a big encouragement to Pastor Emiku Dennis & the church as a whole. The message was on sanctification.

God did a miracle for us on Wednesday. We were driving to the orphanage over very rough roads & must have hit a rock at the side of the road as we were meeting an oncoming car. We heard a huge hissing sound & every turn of the wheels we kept hearing it. We kept going and a little farther down the road the hissing sound stopped. We drove about 10 more minutes before reaching the orphanage. When we got to the orphanage we found a tire that was mostly flat with a bent rim. Some way God had sealed up our tire and gotten us safely to the orphanage. We used the spare, had the rim repaired & all is well.

Bananas growing on a banana tree in our backyard.

These are mud bricks, made by hand, laid out to dry with straw over the top. They will dry until they are cured enough to stack. Then they will stack them in a pile with a hollow center so they can build a fire inside to fire them. (See photo below). Everything is done the hard way.

Beautiful but strange!!! This is a worm Dennis saw at the orphanage a couple of weeks ago. There were several on one particular tree, but they are not there now.

We thought our computer had crashed on Friday, but the battery had run down. We are very limited on space, have other issues & are not sure whether we will be able to post again for a couple of weeks. We are getting another computer from the US , with the second team. Thank you for keeping us in your prayers.