We pray all is well back home in America! We hope and trust that your celebration of our Lord’s birth was also wonderful!

​This month began with us taking a trip to Nairobi (Dec 8 – 12) for the express purpose of seeing off our older interns who were returning to Minnesota to finish up their last semester before graduating from Bethany Global University (BGU). ​

What a month it has been! In the midst of continued language learning, we have had many unexpected events come our way.
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​Life has been moving along here in Kenya this last month. Our primary priority at the moment is still language acquisition - as it will be for many more months to come. I am reminded of a line in the poem “Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats in which it begins, “That is no country for old men.” We have much work to do! If God calls you to it, He will bring you through it.  

We hope and pray that this month you are doing well in the Lord. University classes are going well. We just crossed the halfway point in this class. One thing that stood out to me from my Church Planting reading today (June 24) is from David Hesselgrave’s book Planting Churches Cross-Culturally. He writes,
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"But prayer is more than the starting point. It is the continuing force behind the entire program of outreach. Over and over the apostle Paul exhorted believers in the churches to pray not just for their personal needs, but for him and for the work of Christ among the lost. And pray they did. And pray we should. After all, they and we are servants who minister to the Lord of the Church. We are children who should be communicating with our Father about the family business. We are solders – in an army that goes forward only on its knees!"