The team spent a fun day at Shangilia Children’s Home. They met with both their staff and children pray partners to encourage one another. It was a special time of fellowship. Of course everyone got to enjoy some fun football (soccer) too! A special highlight was trip attendee, Alex, getting to connect Samuel. Samuel graduates on Thursday from a 3 year Nursing program after a lot of hard work! He is a Shangilia graduate so everybody is very excited and proud for his successful next step.
The team had a fantastic day today! They got to visit with one of our partners, Pastor Solomon, along with some of his family and children. Addiitonally, they got to go to church and enjoy a powerful message. Finally, they played some soccer with the children at Shangilia before a little rain pushed them to some fun with balloon animals!
The team has moved to Shangilia Children’s Home and is enjoying serving the community. They have connected with the Widows Ministry and enjoyed time of singing, fellowship, and prayer together. Specifically, we want to tell the story of Joyce Agaromba. Last week she wasn’t feeling well and she went down to sleep in her room. As she was sleeping, it started raining and suddenly she had a big bang on her roof top. It was a tree that was going to fall on her so she rose up immediately and started screaming. It was horrific and she is now sleeping in the kitchen with her grand children to avoid all the leaking. The team was able to join the church elder to go inspect the damage and will be partnering with the local construction teams to repair her home. Currently, Kenya is having lots of rain, so please pray for them in this rainy season.
The team has safely arrived in Nairobi and travel went well. They had good flights and good connections wth only one lost piece of luggage! God is already at work giving opportunities to share the Gospel. The team continues to build good chemistry as they look forward to serving together.
Once they arrived, they were able to spend a great day at Kibera. Pastor Timothy and Pastor Samuel welcomed them to the community. They spent quality time learning exploring and serving the community in one of the poorest areas of the world.
We are excited for the team to head to Kenya today! Please join us in praying for safe travels and an amazing trip!
It was a wonderful last day with the widows! We got to share the the love of Jesus with them through singing and dancing plus being able to provide 115 with them with a gift of food. At the end, they circled around our team to pray for us. What a powerful blessing!
The team created hope for the widow Karen by building her a new mud home. Who would have thought we would be having a fun mud fight on a missions trip?
Our president, Randy, shared the following note of encouragement:
“It’s amazing who God leads you to through listening prayer, by hearing God’s voice and allowing him to lead my team and I to people that need hope. I learned this from my friend Seth Barns at Adventures In Mission. God showed up in amazing ways! Ask our team about it when they get back.”
Additionally, work has been on the widow Karen’s new home and a new outhouse.
Wonderful days of ministry serving in the community. The teams visited Rejoice Medical Clinic, supported a local widow building an outhouse, and had fun at the community school! We are thankful for your prayers and support.
Fun day at Shangilia Children’s Home and serving in the community!
Day 2 was a travel day to Shangilia Orphanage and a chance to get settled in. On Day 3, everybody got to spend time loving the widows who are the outcasts of Kenya. They know they are loved by God and by our team too! It was a wonderful day of dancing, sharing life, and laughing!
The team had a wonderful time visiting Pastor Timothy in Kibera Slums!
Surprise! The trip has started! It’s been a crazy adventure with trusting Jesus as our Kenya team heads to Africa. The original plan was to leave at noon on Wednesday, but Delta cancelled the flight’s yesterday (Tuesday) before the snow storm even started in Minnesota! The trip leader and LFK President, Randy, had to rebook 22 flights with our travel agent for a new departure within 6 hours. 6 HOURS! We had to divide our team in half. 11 team members left at 7:30pm and 11 team members at 10:30pm flying to 2 different connecting spots in Europe. It was a scramble as everyone had to get off work or out of school early then totally rearrange their plans to leave one day early! People had to get Covid tests done, pack their 3 bags, get to the airport in 2 1/2 hours, get checked in and ready to fly out! Travel agent did an amazing job of rebooking 22 people in a very short amount of time to make the flights, but not enough seats on one flight, so 2 different flights and different airlines. It was a great day of trusting Jesus, being flexible, and taking on adaptable, flexible leadership. One team went to Paris and the other to Amsterdam for connections. God has incredible things in store for the team plus they now get a bonus day in Kenya!
Happy Thanksgiving from Kenya, Africa.! We celebrated with all the children at the orphanage. We didn’t have traditional turkey, but did enjoy grilled mbuzi (goat). Unleashing Hope on Thanksgiving in Kenya to 2 widows by having the locals build new outhouses for these amazing women, transforming peoples lives through meeting desperate felt needs. We love spending time in this community serving people!
Emotionally hard day today as we went to visit a young girl (Sandra) that that we visited 4 years ago and has been sick and not able to walk or leave her bed for 10 years. Discovered little Sandra passed away in June (last picture). We prayed for the mother and discovered her husband had died 2 years ago and that her 2 year old little boy was very very sick, Brought them to our medical clinic to help the little boy thrive again. Praying for healing.
Today, we received a goat as a gift! The public school gave our Love For Kenya team a goat to take home for dinner as a thank you from the 453 local school children and their teachers. The school principal honored Love For Kenya and Plymouth Covenant Church because we supported 5 classroom renovations, 30 new outhouses, and a renovation of the teacher building. What a wonderful surprise and celebration!
Additionally, we got to spend time specifically honoring each of the staff that work so hard at Shangilia Children’s Home plus had some fun with balloons!
Today was an amazing day spent with the 115 widows of the community! There was singing and dancing with everyone enjoying each other’s company. Stacy and Kendra shared their powerful testimonies. We then celebrated Thanksgiving early to let them know how thankful we are for them and that they are deeply loved. It was a delicious meal and time of fellowship together! Can you guess all the foods that we served?
We had a fantastic time loving on the incredible children at Shangilia orphanage!
We had a wonderful time worshipping with our brothers and sisters at Oasis of Joy Church.
These 6 girls gave there lives to Jesus today! Praise God!
We were at a Kenyan wedding on Saturday. Pastor Kefa and Lonika’s son, Godwill got married! Great celebration!
The rest of our team has made it to Kenya! They had a wonderful time visiting with Pastor Timothy.
What a wonderful day of connecting with the widows! There was dancing, singing, rejoicing, and prayer as it has been almost 3 years since we saw our friends.
Randy, Michelle, & Beth enjoyed quality time with the Kenyan Board, widows, and children at Shangilia Children’s Home. The rest of the team is on the way!
Love for Kenya and unleashing hope from Plymouth Covenant Church I’ll provide 30 new out houses for 600 children at a local public school, Randy was able to visit the school today and see the project firsthand. This made one of the biggest impacts in the community has Love for Kenya w was able to help provide this. Randy was able to point the school officials all back to Jesus, who has provided this for the school.
Love for Kenya, and unleashing hope through Plymouth Covenant Church‘s able to help provide funding for a local public school to renovate five classrooms that were condemned by the government. Because of this great project children are now able to use these five new classrooms. And it’s made a huge impact in the community for Jesus Christ. The public school in the community are giving praise to love for KENYA for this amazing gift, which opens up the opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and salvation.
This garden of hope was created by the children at shangilia orphanage, left for Kenya children. This was done during Covid as a place of refuge, to pray, and to find hope during the midst of the pandemic.
