January, 2012 

 

Dear Ministry Partners,

 

Greetings from Lokichoggio, Kenya.  It’s the 2^nd of January and it’s around 100 degrees here in Lokichoggio.

I’m sitting here filtering some water and trying to update gospeltecture’s web site.  The containers for the filtered

water don’t seem to be filling up too fast – I think I’m drinking it about as fast as I can filter it. 

We had a lot of rain in October and November (very unusual for Loki) but now it’s hot, dry and dusty (not unusual for Loki).

I am still hopeful that, one day, we will have electricity in Loki.  The promise is still there and, occasionally, I do see

some work going on.  I'm sure - someday!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you all a most blessed New Year.

Christmas at my church here was a 6 hour event.  The day began with singing and dancing. 

I taught a Bible study in the morning and then there were several events that followed during the next 5 ½ hours. 

The kids sang and recited their Bible verses, our Pastor preached from the book of Isaiah and there was more

singing and dancing and then three or four Bible skits performed by the youth.  At the end of the service we

ate chapati and (everyone except me – I don’t like chai) drank chai.

 

The young men in our discipleship program are; Ewesit Munyes (Emanuel), Ekuyen Lokitaung (Samuel),

Nebo Kapua (Nebo).  These guys are doing fantastic in the program.  They have all memorized the verses so

that they now can use the “Roman Road” as a tool for evangelism.  We also use a series of lessons written by

Mike Story as a training tool. We have translated the “Roman Road” into Turkana so that others in the church

can learn.  Too, we will be translating all of the discipleship lesson so that these first three guys can then take

them to the village.

 

The church has a well but the hand pump has been broken for some time now.  I’m in the process of repairing it. 

So far the women of the church have built a fence around the pump, the men helped me removed the pump and

I have repaired the cylinder.  I have chlorinated the well and now we are ready to install the pump.

 

Take a look at our picture page.  I’ve included pictures of the church and some from when the ladies were

building the fence around the well.  I’ll update our site again when we have completed the well project.

 It’s a joy to serve Him,

Mike

Praises

ALL of the government work is complete.

We have now completely relocated to Loki.

Our discipleship program is off and running.

 

Prayer Requests

Please continue to pray for our men in the discipleship program.

Please pray for my church in Loki.

Pray that our mission and the church will reach the Turkana People for Christ.

 

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