LIVESTOCK PROJECTS FOR THE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

Among the ways that we are working to produce food for the orphanage is by our small beginnings of a livestock program. We currently have three cows at the orphanage, one that is due to have a calf in a few weeks. As we see things right now, these will be milk cows.

I have also mentioned before our chicken program. Two of the hens recently hatched 14 eggs. Our prayer is that we can obtain an incubator so that numerous chicks can be hatched, with a plan to give at least two chickens to some members of the church to help them begin their own small flocks.

These projects serve the dual purpose of helping provide food for the children and also as a training in our vocational school for raising livestock. Besides that, with the chickens, it is our intention to help lessen the level of poverty among some of the church members.

Of course, we are also going ahead with the other aspects of the vocational school. More on those courses as time continues.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. God is good!

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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!

RECEIPTS BELOW:

NEW COMPUTER FOR OUR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL!

The vocational school that we are beginning at the orphanage has been born out of necessity. Paying jobs are very difficult to find in our part of Kenya, and without some training of some kind, there is very little opportunity to progress in life.

Working for a dollar a day picking tea leaves is about the only thing.

The beginnings of our school may seem rudimentary to some, but we do what God has given us to do with what he has supplied. I have written about the carpentry tools and the tailoring machine that we have purchased. These will be helpful to some of the kids who have an interest and ability in these.

We are so thankful that God has also provided for us to purchase a computer. I was surprised to learn that the kids receive no computer training or even typing, even up through high school.

This new computer will be vital to training for everyone since there are many teaching programs can be accessed without having to purchase expensive books and other materials.

Plus, it will teach the kids how to type! Of course, it is a different culture in Kenya, especially in these frontier regions, but I think that we all can understand that in the years to come, computer skills and typing skills will be essential.

We have no internet access at the orphanage, but we are now checking on available educational DVDs that can be purchased. When our family lived in Venezuela years ago, our own boys learned to type using a DVD, “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.” As I looked online to see if that DVD is still available, I see that there is a free download of this same program!

That’s great! As I said—no internet at the orphanage, but I am thinking that they can take the computer into a cyber café and download it on to the computer from there. There also may be other similar programs of educational material. They are checking on all of that now.

Thank you for your prayers in this, and to all who have given to make this possible. It is an exciting new phase for us!

Praise God!

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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!

OUR SMALL BEGINNINGS OF AN ORPHANAGE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

Several of our kids in the orphanage are now in the upper grades in school, with four
graduating from their secondary education earlier this year. Since these kids are without family and with no land to inherit as is customary within families in that culture, the Lord has given it to us to provide a way in which these children can earn some income to help them progress in their lives.

One of the ways that we are doing this is by making a small beginning at a vocational school. It is a small start, but significant nonetheless.

We are beginning by purchasing some carpentry tools, as some of the graduates expressed an interest in learning that skill. With the construction projects that God has given us to do in the orphanage, these kids have grown up observing how buildings are made.

We also have purchased a sewing machine, or as it is called there, a tailoring machine. As in most developing countries, the most economical clothes are not those bought off the rack in the store, but what the people make themselves. This is also a skill that will be useful for some to learn.

Please pray with us as we thank God and look to Him for guidance. I will be writing more on this in the upcoming weeks.

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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!

NEW DORMITORY FOR THE BOYS!

 We praise God that he has provided a safe and healthy place for the boys to sleep. It is temporary, but it will be where they will be for some extended time.

It is actually a room of the new school that we are building, but that will come some time in the future.

We have also purchased some of the new equipment for the vocational school that we are beginning. These are some beginning welding equipment, tailoring supplies, and one computer so that the kids can begin learning keyboarding and basic computing skills. They did not receive any of these instructions in school.

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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!

MEET OUR GRADUATES - IBRAHIM ONDUSO

Please read about another of our graduates - Ibrahim Onduso

In the early part of his life, Ibrahim was raised up by a single mother. They lived near to where the mother had some work. But when the post-election violence took place in 2007, his mother was killed. Ibrahim was 3-years-old at the time.

A neighbor was kind to take him into his home, but after some time in that home, the neighbor left and abandoned the boy. Now Ibrahim did not know what to do. Because his mother had been single and did not own any property or land to help Ibrahim settle there, this boy was really lacking a place to belong. He had no family, and his background was not known by anyone.

Since he had no one who could help him, Ibrahim then went to the street and became a street boy. That is where he was living until the day that the people of the church found this now 10-year-old boy and took him into the orphanage.

Ibrahim is now thankful that he belongs to Log Church Orphanage family by the mercy of God. He testifies that he sees a bright future that God has prepared for him through the good care in the orphanage.

He is a young evangelist, and he wants to reach more souls after school in the near future. God bless every hand that gives to help us continue with life in the orphanage.

Ibrahim’s favorite subjects in school were English, Biology, Chemistry, Christian Religious
Education and Agriculture. He loves working with animals and in the garden. He would like also to learn carpentry work, and is good in athletics.

Like the other graduates, Ibrahim enjoys helping the little ones in many aspects like caring them, coaching them, teaching them the Bible truths, training them new songs and teaching them about prayer.

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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!