Sunday Baptism

It was a joy to see three of our church attendees get baptized this week. Monica is 20 and has been saved for several years but never baptized. Leah, a teen girl, was recently saved at church. Both girls filled out a detailed lesson on baptism and were interviewed by the deacons. The third girl, Daniella, is 8 years old but clearly understands salvation and the meaning of baptism. Continue to pray that more born-again church attendees will join the church and get involved.

Baptism - Sunday Nov. 5, 2006

 

Our broken sign board

Early on Sunday morning, Nov. 5th, there was a terrible head-on collision with an oil tanker and a small bread truck. As far as we know, everyone died. Paul has posted the accident picture on his blog. It is always a sobering reminder to us of the brevity of life and how we need to use every day God gives us to share the gospel. The wreckage of the accident was in the middle of the Mombasa road, directly in front of our mission property. So two lanes of traffic at a time were diverted to our side of the road to get past it. One large truck evidently hit our sign. It is a $300.00 sign! Fortunately Joel just finished fixing a portable welder on Friday and used that to fix it up today. Praise the Lord! Thanks again Steve Branning for the gift of this very useful welder.

Ladies Missionary Retreat

On Oct. 27 & 28th, the Ind. Baptist missionary ladies had a retreat in Karen, just outside of Nairobi. We met at a nice conference center. Angela Madory organized the retreat and Christina Fulmer helped her with speaking. Several of the missionaries who live outside of Nairobi were able to come. They said they long for this kind of fellowship as loneliness is one of their biggest battles. We are planning now to have at least one retreat a year, possibly two. The theme of the retreat was "If the shoe fits". It was a great time of food, fun and instruction.

Our sign

 

Ladies' Retreat