Kenya news

The team (except for Kevin & Danica) went on a safari Friday (Kenya time).

It was eye opening for sure! They got to see lions and were actually charged by a RHINO! Their guide, Victor, was great and kept them all safe but how exciting.

Please pray for the team as they prepare to leave. It will very emotional as they leave the children they have come to love and the people working in Kenya that have welcomed them into their lives.

The team leaves for the airport in Nairobi late Saturday night/early Sunday morning Fremont, CA time. Thank you all for your prayers!

We hope to post many more pictures when the team returns since the internet access has been difficult for the team. Many of these posts have been done by phone calls. So, check back in next week to see pictures!

Uh it's danicA And how do you work this thing?!? waah I guess I have to type it all in this little title box. this week has been absolutely amazing

My favoritest place in the world Okay Im in the car on a very bumpy road using dads iPhone aNd it won'tlet me type in the blog box, juz

Cassandra posts about Ngala Deaf School

Jambo

Today was a great day. We went to Ngala school for the deaf. They are the sweetest children and even with little they are so joyful. My heart will be there and I will be in contact with the teachers so I can come back and work with them more. I have many pictures to show you all. Also I took a video of the class one giving the team all sign names. It it so sweet. Right now we are off to dinner with dear friends. It will be good to see them all. It has been over a year from the time we saw each other last, God is so good and giving us many blessings.Tomorrow we are taking a day of rest in town. Saturday we are leadinga workshop for the staff at Rohi. All of them are excited and so is the team. Please pray for our time together. This will be my last email so keep us all in your prayers. Thank you for your prayers and know God is moving! I may never come home!

Hugs and much love,
Cassandra

Danica and the Mural

Cassandra asked Danica to draw a heart and hands for her. She happened to show the drawing to the team in Kenya that is working at the deaf school. They really liked it and asked (commissioned?) Danica to do a mural at the school.

Thursday the team will be going to the deaf school to do a project there and we look forward to seeing the mural Danica does!

Wednesday in Kenya

Kevin called in to report on a day full of activity in Kenya. The team typically starts out at 6 am and returns to the hotel at 9 pm at night. With a schedule like that, they are especially thankful everyone is staying healthy.

Prayer requests:
- Continued good health
- Contiued team unity
- Pray ahead for the team to know how to share their experiences with others.

And now on with the story about Wednesday!

The weather has been good with highs in the high 70's to low 80's. At night when it drops to the 60's the Kenyans all put on ski jackets while the team is in light pullovers at most. Weird mental picture of ski jackets in Kenya!

On Wednesday morning the team took over (by invitation) the classes for about 3 hours at ROHI. Sarah & Danica took over the 1st & 2nd grade class of 30 kids and the rest of the team each took one grade each. Hopefully there will be pictures to post soon!

In the afternoon the team worked on the Guardian project. They were able to come alongside two families. The project involved helping the legal guardians of a ROHI student in a tangible way.

The first student is not an orphan, but he and his family are under stress. Both parents are living and there are 8 children in the family and they cannot even afford the $15/month rent.

The second student lost his father 3 years ago and his mother is left caring for 5 children and her mother-in-law. Because of the father died, they were not able to stay in their home and were evicted.

Through the giving of our FCC family and others, the team was able to help both families start businessess selling food & cool at roadside stands. They helped by providing the start up inventory and space to sell them.

Tired yet? In the evening the team enjoyed dinner with Mama & Papa Mathua, the founders of ROHI. Get some rest team....

Thank you to everyone supporting the team in prayer!

Cassandra sends greetings

Jambo
We are all doing well. We had a great day at Rohi church and at street church. Ministered with a lot of great people at street church with God's perspective on loving others. Tomorrow is an exciting day of being with the students of Rohi before they go on break. I was blessed to meet my sponsor child Faith. She has such a sweet spirit and I enjoyed spending time with her. Some time this week Iwill be giving her the bible that I used in high school. I am praying that this bible will bless her school years as it did mine.

Thank you for your prayers and love. Please be praying for...
The team
the children and staff at Rohi
adjusting to the new time zone
seeing things as the Lord sees them

Hugs and love,
Cassandra

Picture of Rohi

This is a picture of worship at Rohi

Posts sent Via email

Here are some emails I got from the team on their way:

Kevin: Picture from the plane of Greenland...covered in ice and snow. I am sure the team will be thinking of all the cool snow soon!

Cassandra: Just landed in Daubi. Please pray we all make it through the health check. They are checking all flights for the H1N1 (of course you know they made it okay from later posts!)

Glad everyone made it okay and hope Danica is feeling better!

Hey, this is Sarah Hardin!

My first time blogging! yay. So the flight was very interesting! it was long...but all in all, danica and i watched like 5 movies and we played GOLF! I think i got about 45 minutes tops sleep on the plane! i felt ok though...but went to sleep soon after. As you have already seen in Cassandra's post, we had some interesting things happen to us. Another is when we were comming up from dinner and got on the wrong elevator. It turned out to be the service elevator for the janitorial people...so when the doors opened, we were in a janitor room. We quickly left that room and went to the hotel.

When we were walking around the hotel, we saw a group of people that looked like a missions team. They were from SoCal, and were also doing some missions work in Kenya! We talked with them some and made friends.

got to got on plane!!

--Sarah

I miss my chickens

Hi this is Danica!

We are in the Dubai airport and we are going to be in Kenya in about 5+ hours. I am more anxious than anything else (of course, this could be just the side affects of the malaria pills). I'm finally going home, after 1.5 years. =). I still can't believe I'm going back. I had a nightmare last night that I had to go back to the States because I was sick. WAAH. But fortunately, it was just a dream.

Please pray for me, because although this sounds a little cheesy and borderline Christianese, Satan is attacking me! I threw up on the plane yesterday and I never get sick on flights. Then I was feeling quite nauseous for the last 5 hours of the flight. Later on that night, while half-conscious, I read James (just like Bromley told us to!) and the second verse really spoke to me. It was James 1:2 (don't quote me on this, I'm just paraphrasing). It said "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds. . .uh. . .well, it said something about this helping my faith grow and persevere because of this. Well, I know the word perseverance was in there somewhere. Anyway, it really spoke to me because even though I underwent this unpleasant experience, I knew that it was good.

-Danica!

Here is a picture of us in the Dubai airport, where a Grande Starbucks drink is $5 (in US)!

Is it 3am yet?

Well....jet lag is something that makes you tired RIGHT? Well not if you are Sarah and I! We slept for a few hours, got up, and went to get food. The only problem was it was only 3am! So back to bed we went for a few hours and then got up and finally ate. That is just the first adventure of many to come.

As I am now sitting in the airport waiting to get on the flight I am so excited. I have been praying for my friends in Kenya and can not wait to see them. God has blessed me with the chance to go back and see friends and partner in ministry with them. I am so using this time to seek where the Lord has me in the future. My heart has been sold for Africa for a long time and I feel the Lord calling me to full-time ministry in the future. Just in prayer about the when and the where. Please also be in prayer as well. Thanks for all your love and prayers!

Kiss On Cheeks, (I am bringing it back!!!!)

Cassandra Marie

29 hours to go!

Hi all!

Please keep the team in your prayers. We leave in 29 hours(ish)! Some of the team is working today and others are getting last minute things done but pray for safety tomorrow. We will be taking 16 suitcases, pray they all get to Nairobi and everything we brought is still there. We trust the Lord is paving the way for us and each step will be lead by His loving hand. Thanks for your love, prayers, and support!

Hugs,

Cassandra Marie

Heading to Kenya on July 23!

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