As many of you might know if you are receiving our email updates, we had a meeting concerning community grievances at our center in Ewaso Ng'iro. The community feels we have not done anything to support them in return for granting us the roughly 11 acres of land for the center and clinic that are now present in Ewaso Ng'iro. While we were hoping to work with the community representatives once again to come up with ways that we could partner with them in community development, the group we met with was not interested in "partnership." Instead, they feel entitled to many things from CMF for the gift of land representatives bestowed on us 20+ years ago. Needless to say, the meeting didn't go as planned. Please continue to pray for God's breakthrough in this area.
I know that clean water became a hot topic over the holiday season. I saw many adds for the Advent Conspiracy especially on facebook. Kenya is not immune to this concern. Below is a picture of a vehicle that can be seen often around Nairobi delivering water from boreholes (wells) to places that don't have running water.
Yesterday Joe had a conference call with one of our teammates and a support in the States who are working on the beginnings of a new project - Water for Kenya (WFK). The aim of WFK would be to establish water treatment regimes in Maasailand and beyond in connection with the ministry of Community Christian Church (CCC). We are excited to see where this project takes us in the next couple months. Please be in pray concerning the details of this ambitious project and all who are involved.
On a personal note, I (Kim) just finished reading "The Shack." A friend had actually just mentioned it to me in an email earlier this week, and I happened to see it at our teammates' house when we were there briefly. She just finished reading it and let me borrow it. I have to confess that I read it all in one day. I was going to write some insights from it, but think I need a bit more time to process. Look for those thoughts in an upcoming post...
Please remember to pray for us this week as we travel out to Kajiado for the Community Health Evangelism (CHE) Training of Trainers (TOT) 2 course. Gotta love all those acronyms!
