Saturday, February 05, 2011 – Being family and bidding farewell

In our morning devotion today Ken asked us to wrestle with a great question: Now that we have had this great, profound experience will we act any different when we get home? It was a great question and one that each of us will think about as we wrap up our trip. You can ask us in person when you see us how we feel about this after we are home and what difference this trip will have made in our lives!

There were powerful emotions and many tears today as we bid farewell to the children and staff at HOREC. We began the day by completing a few small projects and then we spent time with the children giving them their backpacks and small gifts we brought for them. Each of us had fun playing games with the kids and a highlight was Millie leading the kids in some Zoomba complete with tutus! I’ll try and get some video up so you can enjoy it like the rest of us did! Thomas and I taught a few of the boys to play football and there were relays races that the kids loved.

I also took some time in the morning to do an extensive interview with Christine in the boy’s dorm so she could share her story via video that we will try and get on You Tube sometime in the near future. In that interview we also were able to present Christine with enough of our trip money to put electricity in the boy's dorm (courtesy of the Miller Middle School 7th grade Puma class), repair the electricity in the girl's dorm, and connect the boy's dorm to the septic system. All three of these projects should be completed in the next few weeks.

The pinnacle of the day was the community bar-b-q complete with hot dogs, potato chips and a cake to celebrate HOREC’s 6^th Anniversary. One of the persons present was Hannah, the chair of the board for HOREC who also works at Barclay’s Bank and arranged for the first gift to build the girl’s dorm. She was actually named woman of the year by the Bank for her work with HOREC and traveled to New York and London to receive her award. There were many other volunteers and neighbors present to enjoy the celebration.

The party ended with a treat that I did not expect. First, a group of women came into the gathering dancing and singing as they seated, Thomas, Paul, Marty and I in four seats of honor. After the dance, the boys of HOREC presented Thomas with a ceremonial spear and shield as a thank you gift to share with his classmates at home for putting electricity in their dorm. The boys were very excited to that they won’t always have to use flashlights to do homework! Two elders then presented Paul and Marty Sheppard with Kenyan robes and headdresses and made them Kenyan elders! The community at HOREC is so grateful for Marty and Paul and all they have done to server them and they did this wonderful ceremony to celebrate that connection. They then presented me with a beautiful Kenyan leather and wood stool that I am to use to sit on when I teach the children Bible stories back home.

Finally, the children sang us a song as a parting gift. We spent some time giving hugs and shedding some tears of joy and sorrow that our time was drawing to a close, but we could not leave without one last song of Zoomba! It took us a while to get the courage up to actually get in the vans to leave and as we drove off the kids sang us one final song of goodbye.

It’s hard to imagine that in just a few days we would become so close to the children at HOREC but there is something special about the Spirit within them that is beautiful, rich and joyful. They long for connection like any of us and they are unafraid to reach out even though their losses in life have been deep. The children care for each other and they very easily extend that sense of family to anyone willing to enter into their lives, even if it is for a brief moment. Jesus said, “Where two or three are gathered there I am also,” and at HOREC you get a clear sense of what he meant. I pray that I might be worthy of the love the children have shared with me and that I would treat it with the respect it deserves. I know that each of us has been changed by our experience and I can only encourage you to prayerfully consider entering the world of your brothers and sisters in Nairobi.

As we headed to our hotel for the night we took a tour through the tourist part of Nairobi that most people visiting this country experience. It was quite the contrast to what we have lived the past week, complete with high rises and a beautiful city park. I felt God nudging me as I thought about the question Ken began our day with regarding whether anything will be different for me after this trip when I get home. I realized that while the gulf seemed far from this scene in Nairobi to the slum of Spring Valley and the HOREC orphanage, it was not really that far at all. And while the distance between Durango and Nairobi seems far (at least it feels that way with a 30 plus our plane ride), it really is not that far at all when you consider that each of us struggles with the same human desire to connect with something greater than ourselves and with each other.

Being a follower of Jesus is really this simple and profound: Love God, love your neighbor (the one next door and the one on the other side of the world) and know that when two or three are gathered, there is Christ and in doing those things his love is made known. I just pray I can remember this and not take it for granted in the days and weeks ahead.

We head tomorrow for a few days of safari and then home. I’ll try and write one more time before we get back and put some more pictures up this week. Thanks again for all your prayers. Peace, Jeff

Friday, February 04, 2011 – Good work if you can get it

Today was really a work day to finally get most of our projects done. We finished up repairs on the playground which included fixing the monkey bars, replacing the teeter-totter boards, building a sandbox and replacing the rope ladder on the swing set. Another crew put together the new bunk beds for the boy’s dorm and got it ready for the boys to move into, which they did that night! We also put up coat hooks in both dorms for the kids to hang their new backpacks up as well as shower curtains in both bathrooms, while another crew finished getting the new kitchen painted and ready for use. The last crew put together the new desks and study tables for the new pre-school classroom. All of the projects should be finished by tomorrow morning.

Our group was treated to a late lunch by Salome who is Christine’s niece. Salome’s mother was Christine’s sister who died of AIDS and in many ways inspired Christine to start HOREC. Salome has finished college and is currently trying to figure out how to get into medical school as she would like to become a doctor and do AIDS research. She dreams of finding a cure that is ravaging her country, especially its children. We had a wonderful lunch together at Christine’s house and then headed back to our hotel for the night.

We concluded the evening with an affirmation circle (sharing with each person how they had blessed us on the trip) and a time of Communion. We all agreed this has been a life changing week in many ways and we have been blessed by each other and by those we have had the privilege of serving. Each of us is grateful for all of you back home who have encouraged us to come and have prayed for us on our journey. Tomorrow we end our time at HOREC and we know that will be both sad and joyful.

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Here's a video of the HOREC Kids eating Ice Cream Wednesday courtesy of the 7th grade pumas from Miller Middle School.

Thursday, February 03, 2011 – Gaining Perspective

After morning devotional, our first stop was the Spring Valley Church, where we worshipped together on Sunday. It is located in the Spring Valley Slum area and it exists because a large group of poor people were relocated to this location by a government official many years ago. The people in this community used to live in the Spring Valley area on the other side of town because a wealthy British Kenyan couple had a heart for the poor of Nairobi and invited them to live on their land. They even deeded the land to the poor when they died, but a government official decided it was too nice to give to them so they were relocated to the area we visited and there now are more than 20,000 people living in one square mile. They kept the name “Spring Valley” kind of as a way of getting back the government and so now there are two Spring Valleys in Nairobi but they are worlds apart in terms of living conditions.

We learned today that in 1999 418 children died in the Spring Valley slum. The next year no children died. This is because of Pastor Stanley and his wife Alice who felt called to minister in this community that year. Pastor Stanley was a successful engineer and Alice was a banker and they both cashed in their pensions to start a church and ministry for the children of Spring Valley. What began as a calling from God to serve the people of Spring Valley has turned into a seven day a week ministry that includes a school and a feeding program. Over 300 children are currently enrolled in the school (pre-school to 8^th grade) most of whom would not get an education if it were not for Pastor Stanley and Alice and the other dedicated staff of the Spring Valley Church, but there are 1200 on the wait list. The school provides 2 meals a day to the children, which is often the only nourishment they receive during a day. The church has also built the only restroom facility in the slum and as a result there is no more cholera or other contagious disease outbreaks in the community. Much of this ministry is funded by generous churches in the U.S.

Pastor Stanley shared many powerful stories about life in the slum. One of them was about a visitor who was carrying a donut through an area of slum and it fell out of their pocket. A little boy and a little girl and a dog all went for the donut at the same time. The girl got the donut, but she lost an eye in the process. This experience and many others have propelled Stanley to care for the “widows and orphans and the poor”. Unemployment is 65 percent in Kenya and so most of the adults cannot find work even if they would like to get some.

We did two things in the slum as part of our visit. First, we visited the school. Thomas and I spent time with the 7^th and 8^th grade classes who had received letters from Miller Middle School students in Durango. We had delivered those letters on Sunday. We had time with the kids to answer questions and the kids presented us with letters they had written back to the students in Durango that we will deliver upon our return. We also visited each of the other classes and saw overcrowded rooms and kids with rags for school uniforms. We met a young girl who has graduated from the school but was unable to have good enough grades to go to high school (you have to have good grades AND pay school fees to attend high school in Kenya.) She has learned the trade of sowing and she helps make new uniforms for kids who don’t have any.

Our time at the school also included helping to serve breakfast, which was basically a cup of porridge. This meal, served at 11 a.m., was the first food most of the kids had that day. The food for all 30 kids is prepared in a kitchen with no water and only using wood for cooking. The kitchen is about 15 feet by 10 feet and only has one window for ventilation. The convert the church sanctuary, made with tin walls and ceiling and a dirt floor, into a dining hall for breakfast and lunch.

After helping to serve breakfast we then delivered 16 baskets of food and supplies our team brought with us to 16 families chosen by Pastor Stanley and Alice to receive them. We split into two teams and children from the school whose houses we were delivering to led us through the streets of Spring Valley. At each home we heard their family’s story and then one member of our team prayed for the family and their home based upon their prayer request. It was a humbling experience to sit with a family of 6 living in a tin room that was the size of most of our bathrooms with no windows, beds and old furniture which had been repaired many times. The temperature in each home was probably 100 degrees or more. Their best worldly possessions were usually laid out on a table or night stand and these consisted mostly of cell phones that did not work and old calendars, all of which had been pulled from the trash.

The amazing part of each home was the deep faith exhibited by each family. In one home I asked a single mother of 4 (her husband had died the year before) what I could pray for her and her children. Her response was, “Please pray the Lord will bless us so we can give to others who have less than we do.” It was hard to fathom anyone who had less than this woman and her children, yet you could clearly feel the heart of God in this woman’s life. As we left their house, her youngest child held my hand and escorted me out. She said to me as we left, “This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad! Thank you for coming. We will be praying for you.” (This is why I renamed the blog.)

It was a very humbling morning, and all this happened before noon. We headed to HOREC in the afternoon to work on our projects at the orphanage and while it was good work to do, the morning had changed us as a group to re-think our priorities in life.

The best part of the afternoon was getting a phone call from a man in Nairobi who sells well parts telling us he was planning on donating a high end, submersible pump to the well at HOREC. I thought that was nice until I learned that is worth about $10,000! Marty Sheppard, one of the leaders of our team, had made contact with this gentlemen about making a donation and he replied this week. We put him in contact with Living Waters, who will be putting in the well, and they were ecstatic to work with him and lower the cost of the well. It most likely will allow us to provide water for another orphanage nearby in which the children cannot go to school because they have to walk 3 miles each day one way just to get water.

Well, that’s probably enough for today. Please continue your prayers as we wrap up our week of work and then celebrate HOREC’s 6^th Anniversary on Saturday with a part and our last time with the children before we leave. Peace, Jeff

February 3, 20011 - Videos

Hey all, here are some videos from yesterday. Hope they work! Peace, Jeff

Wednesday, February 02, 2011 – Elephants and Giraffes and Medusa, oh my!

We began today with a great devotional by Thomas, who shared what it feels like to be an orphan and have people come and visit you. You don’t feel so alone. He read from John 14 where Jesus said to his disciples, “I will not leave orphaned. Do not fear, for I will be with you always.” Thomas also read Psalm 23 for us and we were reminded that God is present when we feel most alone. This was a great introduction to the day because our first stop was the Kenyan National Elephant Orphanage. (We also had a “small world” moment at breakfast when we met a couple staying at our hotel who are good friends with a couple who are part of First United Methodist Church in Durango!)

Two of our vans picked up the children at HOREC and then we met them at the Elephant Orphanage. We arrived early and enjoyed some lollipops we had purchased the day before. Just sitting around it’s amazing the connections that happen as a woman saw our t-shirts and inquired about HOREC. We shared the story of the orphans and she was moved by what she heard. She actually is a journalist from Denmark on vacation and she took a few pictures with the kids and Christine and said she hoped she could write a story that might help get funding for HOREC from other places in Europe. I thought that was pretty cool!

Our time at the Elephant Orphanage was awesome. We stood behind a roped off area while the caretakers paraded in two different groups of baby elephants. Most had been abandoned by parents or had a mother who died or could not care for them. They range in age from a few days old to 3 years old, when they are reintroduced into the wild. We watched the elephants drink from baby bottles as they were fed, then play in a big mud puddle with soccer balls! They also liked to have dirt shoveled onto them by their handlers. We learned that elephants are extremely dependent on being in a “family” and when isolated they get severely depressed and sometimes die.

We had an interesting experience at the orphanage that moved many of us to tears, and made some of us angry. As they started the speaking part of the program they had us move to one end of the roped off area where someone speaking English would give us the program, while our kids stayed where they were to hear the person speaking in Swahili. We got there early so the kids could be right down front and about 30 minutes into the presentation (it’s only 1 hour long and when it’s done you have to leave) another group of well-dressed school kids showed up. We watched as they literally shoved our kids out of the way into the back! There was clearly some discrimination going on as our kids because they are orphans and seen as second class. The HOREC kids were so polite and they quietly sat in the back, now unable to see because most of the kids from the other school were bigger and they were noisy and rude to boot. The presenter from the Elephant Orphanage told the new group to please be quiet because they were disturbing the Elephants, and when they refused to listen to him he chastised them for being rude and pushing these other polite kids (the ones from HOREC) at and told them there were dismissed from the program. He literally kicked them out and then let our kids back in front. Then he proceeded to bring the elephants over and they began stroking our kids with their trunks and ears and our kids were allowed to pet them. It was a special and a bit surreal moment.






We then headed to a great little ice cream parlor where my son Thomas treated the kids to ice cream courtesy of the 7^th grade Puma class at Miller Middle School. The raised money to treat the kids to something special and the looks on their faces said it all as they downed their swirled cones and got ice cream all over their faces.

After the great ice cream stop we traveled down the road 15 minutes to the Giraffe center where we all got to pet and feed the giraffes. It was fun to see the look on their faces when the big giraffe tongue engulfed their hands. They also got to pet some tortoises and we met some warthogs just like Poomba from the Lion King.

Our day ended with a great meal at Medusa’s. Medusa’s is a very nice restaurant owned by the sister of one of our members at FUMC in Durango. This was a five star kind of restaurant and the staff went out of their way to make the kids feel like honored guests. They provide balloons, party favors, hats and tons of great food. They presented a cake made by the head chef and they sang their own version of “Hakuna Matata” that the kids joined in singing. As we left the restaurant the kids then broke in a song of, “Thank you very much,” that moved the staff of the restaurant, and all of us standing around, to tears. They even gave 12 pounds of frozen meat to take back to HOREC for the cook to use in the days ahead for the kids.

We headed back to our hotel and the kids back to the orphanage. I am amazed at how humble and grateful and full of life the children are—they have touched our hearts and I hope each one of you can experience some of that magic through this trip. Before we retired from the night we spent some time with Jennifer Phillips Lawrence, the missionary here in Kenya who helps coordinate our trips. She share some history about her role in Kenya and also talked about how we can help HOREC and other ministries in Kenya become more self-sustaining, which is her ultimate goal. It was a good conversation to have and I am grateful for her leadership here and hope to share more of that with our congregations when we return.

Until tomorrow, peace be with you. Jeff

Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - Planning for Water at HOREC

Today was a busy day of working on our several projects, interrupted only by a visit from the staff of Living Waters International (pictured at left). It was exciting to hear John and Mindy talk with us about a kiosk and cistern water tower that would be built by the entrance to HOREC. The two would be about 3-4 meters in the air and include a submersed pump that would pump water into the cistern then gravity would carry the water through pipes to the boy’s dorm, the girl’s dorm, the kitchen as well as be used for irrigation. Living Waters can build all of these as well as drill the well that would most likely need to go 100-150 meters deep. They then provide health and hygiene training for the staff and children at the orphanage. This setup will also allow HOREC to sell waters to the neighbors (the reason for the kiosk being by the road and security guard shack—so people don’t have to come inside the orphanage grounds) and provide a much needed source of income. We agreed to have First United Methodist Church in Durango send a check to Living Waters this week and that they would then begin the process by getting a geological survey and applying for the permit from the Kenyan government. John Baker is the main contact here in Kenya with Living Waters and he has a long history in the country, having started an orphanage himself in Nairobi more than 15 years ago which continues to serve children.

Our day of work included finishing painting the boy’s dorm in preparation for putting the beds and dressers in the rooms Thursday and blessing the room so they can begin to use it by Friday. My son Thomas’ class at Miller Middle School raised some money before we left that we hope to use to get electricity run into the boy’s dorm as right now they have none. We’ll find out tomorrow if that can be done at a reasonable cost. Part of our team went through all the dressers in the girl’s dorm and found most of the drawers broke and in need of repair so we are looking into purchasing new ones that we hope can be delivered on Thursday before we leave. Each child gets just one drawer to keep all of their earthly belongings so you can imagine they get full and stuffed to the brim. Another part of our team painted the new kitchen that was recently added and we’ll be helping the staff at HOREC move in and stock the cabinets. Currently, all cooking is done in a small wood and tin shack outside the walls of the main building so it will be nice to have this kitchen usable which is directly next to the dining hall. Our last work crew continued making tables and storage boxes and repairing playground equipment.

At the end our work time we spent 30 minutes with Philip, one of our drivers, who shared how blessed he has felt to get to work with us. Both of our drivers don’t just sit in the vehicles while we work but join us in our efforts, even though they are not paid to do so. Philip was grateful that we did not just come and leave money but that we spent time with the kids and actually got our hands and clothes dirty. He said something profound that I really appreciated, and that is that the kids at HOREC don’t seem like orphans when you compare them to other kids in Kenya. It’s as though they have parents because they have us and each other. They are clearly loved and it shows. What a great testimony about the power of HOREC and its impact of the lives of these children.

Well, I think that sums up the day pretty well. Tomorrow we have a fun day as we take the children to the Kenyan National Elephant Orphanage and then the Giraffe Center where they can feed the giraffes. We will have a wonderful late lunch together at Medusa’s, a restaurant owned and operated by the sister of a church member at First United Methodist Church in Durango…small work, hey!

We greatly appreciate your prayers and know that all of you are with us in spirit. Grace and Peace, Jeff

Sunday, January 30, 2011 – Projects and People

Today we spent the day actually getting to work. I kind of forgot we were going to work while we are here as the last couple of days we got to just be with kids and each other and God.

Our projects include painting the boys’ dorm so the boys can move in before we leave on Saturday; fixing the playground equipment that has been well used since our team put it in November of 2009; building some new desks, tables and storage boxes; putting up hooks for school packs; and getting the new kitchen ready to be used. We got a good start on each project even though our power tools arrived late and then the power went out! We got a good lesson in Kenyan time as we tried to get lumber and other parts needed for the projects. I was assigned to help with playground repair so we began the work of putting new bars on the monkey bars; new teeters on the teeter totters; fixing the climbing wall and swings; and building a new sand box from the old teeter totter boards.

It was a bit strange being at HOREC without many kids around (the pre-schoolers were there in the one room school house that has been build next to the boys’ dorm and it includes kids at HOREC and few from the community.) The highlight was hearing Christine share her story that really is a calling to love kids that her country has labeled unworthy of love. We finished work up an hour early so she could share with us and as she finished Carol arrived!

Carol is 11 and has been at HOREC for three years. She came to HOREC just a few months before our last team came in November of 2009. C.J. was on that team as well and she remembers placing Carol on the swing and having to hold her up because she was so weak she could not hold herself on the swing. Carol has been at the hospital the last two weeks recovering from TB which is a result of being HIV positive. But she arrived home today at HOREC and her smile was contagious. It was especially fun when she pulled back her pink hoodie of her head to display a cute set of curls (all of the kids have shaved heads, including the girls, for hygiene reasons.) This was first head of hair we had seen and it was beautiful. The best part was watch Carol and C.J. head to the swings and seeing Carol being able to swing on her own! Oh the joy in the little things in life. Here is a little girl the doctors said would not live so why bother treating her, and now she is running and playing. It was a real life resurrection being lived out before our eyes. I found myself being grateful that God is good and people like Christine are willing to listen to God’s call and serve so faithfully as instruments of His grace and love.

Sunday, January 30, 2011 – Worship that Makes Your Spirit Move

Our team woke up groggy and emotionally drained from yesterday’s powerful God moments. I did not sleep much as I was asked to preach for Rev. Stanley at his Spring Valley slum church this morning and was a bit nervous about how any message I could preach would connect with those in such a different community and world in which most of my life takes place. I forgot that God can work no matter who we think we are or are not.

We had a great morning of Sunday School with adults, teens and youth and then some great praise and worship music that included a youth choir and dance group. The place was alive with the Holy Spirit and when it came time to preach I was blessed with a great translator and we had a great time reflecting on God’s word from the Gospel of Luke about the enemies of Jesus. We talked about how we all are recovering Pharisees and the message seemed to resonate in both the cultures of Durango and Nairobi. Our team was so welcomed and we were encouraged as we worshipped to experience the power of God in this wonderful new place.

After worship we headed back to HOREC where we had some lunch and then got some more great time with the children. We sang some songs together and then spent time with the kids we had been praying for the past few months, getting to know them better and hearing about their favorite things in life. Thomas and I interviewed a few of the older kids to take those back to his school and then we all gathered in the dining hall for a brief worship time together. Several of the kids read some bible stories about the Pharisees that we had read in the morning, then I taught them a few fun songs that we sang with gusto.

WE ended our time at HOREC by handing out letters from some of the students in Thomas’ class at Miller Middle school. They especially like the gum in the letters, then they went off to read every word in every letter…some read their letters twice over. We headed back to our hotels to rest up for the next day in which we would begin our projects. It was a great and exhausting day.

Saturday, January 29, 2011 – It’s All About the Children

Today we experienced why we travel all this way and what it truly means to be the body of Christ half way across the world. We were blessed as the children of HOREC greeted us with song and dance and Scripture and testimony. Alice is a young girl that will leave HOREC this week to head to high school and she summed things up well in her greeting to us when she said, “We are a success story. We are a miracle. We are not orphans because you have loved us.” It was very humbling and we felt like we were the ones being blessed as they took turns speaking our names as they had been praying for us and our trip. We also realized that many of these children know their Bible better than we do!

After the children sang to us, we simply spent some time meeting one another. We presented the children with two guitars from people back in Durango and they were so excited to strum them. Thomas presented the laptop to HOREC that was purchased by the students at Escalante Middle School for the children at HOREC so they could get familiar with computers.

Then came one of the most awesome things I have ever gotten to do. We had challenged the congregation at First United Methodist Church in Durango to do Christmas differently this year by reminding them that it’s not our birthday, it’s Jesus’ birthday. We encouraged them to spend as much on helping to provide clean water for the children at HOREC as they would spend on their own Christmas. The well at HOREC is hand dug and mostly dry, providing little water that is not fit for human consumption. The congregation gave more than enough to put a well in and today we got to share that with Christine, who is the founder director of HOREC. She did not know that this was coming and she literally was speechless. The only words she could say was that, “God is so good. It’s a miracle.”

HOREC is a miracle, with Christine having a vision of a home for those thousands of kids each year who are “throw-aways.” They have no parents and many of them are sick (HIV/AIDS is most common) and the Kenyan government and medical system does not believe it is worth caring for them because, “they are going to die anyway.” Then you see these kids thriving and loving one another and it is truly God’s hand at work. Just over three years ago Christine started with 20 kids in a two bedroom house against the wished of her husband. She then got the acre of land which only had one building on it that was usable. Now there are more than thirty kids, a boy’s dorm, a girl’s dorm, a dining hall, a kitchen, a small classroom, a chicken coop which now has more than 100 chickens, a few goats and another acre of land to grow food.

Finally, before we left for the day, the children received letters from each of the students at Escalante and the kids had a wonderful time reading their letters and hearing from children in Durango, CO how they are loved a half a world away. We headed back to our hotel with a new perspective on life and love and how God works in the world. Grace and Peace, Jeff

Friday, January 28, 2011 – What day is it?

We arrived in Nairobi safely and on time after 36 hours of travel and a 10 hour time change. We are 10 hours ahead here and so while it is 11 p.m. it feels like 1 p.m. It’s just strange! We all are VERY grateful for the Customer Service folks at United Airlines in Denver. Thomas and I were on the 1 p.m. flight out of Denver into Chicago and the rest of our team was on a 2:30 flight. That meant that Thomas and I would have around 2 hours in Chicago but the rest of the team only would have 40 minutes before our flight to Brussels. Their flight was then delayed 40 minutes which meant they would miss that flight overseas and would be stuck in Chicago for an extra day because there is only one flight to Brussels. The United staff worked hard to get all of our bags switched to the early flight so all of us could get to Chicago earlier and make the international flight. Not only did we all make it, but so did our bags! That, my friends, is a minor miracle! The people at our hotel in Nairobi had a wonderful late night meal for us and now we are off to bed. Keep your prayers coming as they worked today! Grace and Peace, Jeff

HOREC - Kenya - January 27, 2011

Well, I am off on another Journey! We head out today at 10 a.m. from Durango to Nairobi, Kenya to work at HOREC (Hope for Orphans Rescue Center.) For a history you can go to this blog: http://horecmission2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/history-of-horec.html. I will try and post on the blog every other day or so, as well as list some photos and videos. Look for more in the next couple of days. Peace, Jeff