We thank God for each of you as you pray for and encourage our work here in Africa!  You are a blessing to us and the world as we partner together to empower lives!

Just a few minutes ago I was with a dozen people who traveled 14 hours across Kenya to come to our training center here in Kenya.  2 hours of that journey was on foot and as we finished our session of training they all gave thanks. When you come from a village where clean water is a luxury and hope is being drained by the challenges for adequate food and resources – you hold onto those relationships that can pull you through and give you hope for tomorrow. These 12 people from the  same church in Mochongoi, Kenya have told me to please express appreciation to all of our staff and ministry family who have helped make this time possible for their lives. It has been only three and  a half days and they finish tomorrow but they are not the same as when they came. Today they are filled with thanksgiving to God. 

Ideas are now filling their minds and our fellowship together in God’s Word has renewed their spirits. It is this momentum that launches needy lives onto new paths of hope and practical steps to break the chokehold of poverty. As each of our ministry areas here in Africa communicates the results for the year –  it is amazing to see that we have reached and impacted 13,860 people so far in 2010. This does not include the 1,750 people that we purchased milk from yesterday (and every day) in Kipkaren through the dairy plant. For this and the changed lives these numbers represents we give thanks!

Recently I visited with Pastor Wesley on the other side of the Kerio Valley.  His life has been changed over the past year because of the trainings he received. A gentleman named Timothy on this side of the valley was so impacted by the training that he has over the past two years connected almost 1,000 other people with ELI and our extension program (Farmer Field Trainings). These are exciting days.