This year the weather in East Africa has mirrored that of the Pacific Northwest.  Flooding and road slides have taken out bridges and roads.  Flooding continues to keep Domenic and Charles from getting to the village Bible Schools.  The rain has been a great thing for the garden at Ol’Gulului, which supplements the food for the girls in the Technical School.  On the downside, when there are no sunbreaks, the solar batteries don’t recharge.  Even the elephants don’t like the rain and have temporarily moved to higher ground. Esther is loving school. It is good that she can come back to Namonga and be withRead More →

This week, the new Rescue Center, aka Technical School, officially opened in Ol’Gululuie.  The nine girls we rescued in the middle of the night from M’Takooja are the first students. They also brought four more girls with them.  We recognize that the need for a safe place for these girls is so great.  If we had room for one hundred, there would be two hundred with even greater needs.   It has been a busy time for the ministry in both Kenya and Tanzania.   We face the same government regulations as in M’Takooja.  We built the new dorm very large, thinking we would temporarily use halfRead More →

Good morning Everyone,As you are all aware, we are currently building a toilet/shower facility for the girls in Ol’Gulului.If we have 360 people send $25, we will have enough to build this building.Just letting you know. Blessings,Harry or as known in Africa, Bwana BankerRead More →

Mailua is one of our new schools, it is the furthest we go out into the bush, bush.  The last two years, we had a class in Luanot, but there were no longer enough students to justify continuing there.  Several of the students lived over the mountains in Mailua, and they often couldn’t get to school because of the weather and wild animals.  By starting a class in Mailua, we have solved that problem.  There are 43 new students in this school, plus those who hadn’t been able to finish last year.  In the first class Kathy taught, she kept being drawn to a lady sitting near us byRead More →

There are now five satellite schools in Kenya.  Each place we have been this year, including in Tanzania, has had its own “Wow.”  In September, we graduated ninety-six Maasai students from the Bible Schools in Kenya.  The passion they have to know God and to study His Word continues to amaze us.  When we were in Oli’Talk,Talk the pastor, who is one of our graduates,  had met with us because a man in the community had met with him and wanted to give us land to start another school.  As we talked with him, we began to share about the hunger we were experiencing everywhereRead More →

The church in Ol’Gulului, where Domenic had held a Revival almost three years ago, is where everything had started for us in Kenya. This is when they gave us the land we are building on.  The church isn’t right by our compound. Having the elephant fence finished was critical; we couldn’t begin building the dorm for the girls until it would be protected.  One Sunday, Lucas and the others were walking home from church when the elephants came; they were so afraid and had to run hard and fast to find a place of safety.   The elephants come by our compound every night and know not to come near our fence. I think itRead More →

First of all, we apologize for not getting updates to you in October.  Most of the time, we didn’t have internet.  We had planned on catching up when we returned to M’Takooja for the three weeks before we were scheduled to return to the States, but as you already know, we came home early… .”Greatness” is how we would describe our time in Africa this year, and it can only be explained by an ongoing “WOW.”  Week after week, things were developing and changing so quickly that all we could say was,” WOW.”  There aren’t adequate words to describe what was happening and the impact of it all everywhereRead More →

We remain in very close contact with Domenic.  He has been able to hear from Gerrod, his son who is running the school in Tanzania, on a regular bases.  The report today is that the army has taken over in Tanzania and is now going from village to village looking for foreigners.  They feel that foreigners are responsible for the rioting.  If found they are arrested and the women are brutally raped.  We still had ten girls, from Kenya, in the Bible School and Rescue Center.  Harry had left some money hidden in our house when we left.  So Gerrod was able to hire a driver, weRead More →

This is mostly a review of our last few days incase some of you haven’t kept up with us in the last eleven days.  We had returned back to Tz on Oct 24th becasue we hadn’t asked for a longer visa for Kenya and we were out of medication and some personal supplies.  Harry and Domenic had been joking around about going back to-Kenya right away becasue it was so hot in M’Takooja,  ninty-six outside and ninty-one in our house.  We just have three fans and they don’t do much more than blowing around hot air.  As it turned out we did deceide to go back and do some more teaching inRead More →

Hello All,We arrived in Salt Lake one half hour early so had to sit on the runway for that half hour waiting for customs to open.We are now at the gate for Pasco.  Have a two hour layover. We are doing well. Almost.  Just tired after 40 hours of being awake. Talk more later,HarryRead More →