NEWS ABOUT A TRIP AND UPDATE ON SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION

In about three weeks Vivian and I, along with one guy from our church (Larry), will be leaving for a two week trip to see the people and the work in Kenya. We all are excited to go and see everyone, but I think Vivian is especially excited. She has been preparing little things to give to the kids and even also to the people of the churches.

We will be visiting both Log Churches—one in the village of Matagaro, and the other in Nyakembene. I have never before had the opportunity to visit Nyakembene, since it was just getting going when I was there last. In the two churches together there are almost a thousand people.

And of course we hope to spend as much time with the children as possible. They are still in their school term, but we have some teaching and also activity times planned in the schedule.

I also want to see how our school building is progressing. As you can see by the photos, the bricks have all been laid for the ground floor and they are now putting up the

bracing and forms to pour the floor for the first level. I do not think that they will have enough money yet to pour the concrete itself, but I guess we will see how it is going once we get there.

As I did before, I hope to be blogging every day during this trip, but just yesterday I ran into some malfunctions with my laptop, so we will also see how that will go. I have a couple of options that I think will work.

Thanks for your prayers!

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Here is the report from Pastor Joel:

Greetings from Kenya in the most precious name of Jesus our Lord and Savior. Our prayers are with you all. The church and leadership of the Log orphanage Kenya are humbled for the work you are doing. Thank you for the help sent the children and leaders are happy for the help of food and other needs, may God bless you all.

The food we bought will last till Friday this week, our prayers are with you all, we trust you are well. Below is the expenditures of the help we received.

School fees Ksh. 200000 (Receipts below)

Building materials Ksh. 400000 (Receipt below)

Food report Ksh.300000 (Receipt below)

Rice=320 Kilogram,one kgs=Ksh. 250x320kgs=Ksh.80000

Cooking oil =60litres,one litre cost Ksh. 450x60litres=Ksh27000

Maize =310kilogram, one kg =Ksh.290 x310Kgs=Ksh.90000

Omo  17 kilograms , one kg @ 150=Ksh.2600

Vegetables 160 kgs. 1kgs =Ksh. 160x160kgs=Ksh.25600

Unga ngano/baking flour 164kgs One kilogram =Ksh.160 x164 kgs=Ksh.26,300

Salt 76Kgs=Ksh.7600

Beans 97kgs one kilogram Ksh. X 350=Ksh.33900

Transport cost Ksh.7000

May God bless you all, we keep you in our hearts, keep praying for the needs here as we pray for you too. Humbled we call you blessed. Thank you.

Son Joel and Church Leadership

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If you would like to help the children of the Log Church Orphanage of Kisii, Kenya, you may make your check out to “The Log Church” and write “Orphans” on the memo line.

Send it to:

 The Log Church

PO  Box 68

Tripoli Wisconsin 54564

We now need to pay a wire transfer fee with every payment, which amounts to $50 each time, but other than that, your donated money will be used only for purchasing food, clothing, schooling, and other necessities of living. We wait until we have $4000-$5000 before we make the bank transfer to make each transfer more economical. Nothing is held back or diverted for any other purpose. Thanks!

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