Bwana asifiwe! (Praise the Lord!) We hear these words many times a day and truly they are ringing praises to our amazing God. I just don’t have the time to write down every blessing that has been poured upon us during this leg of our trip. We arrived in Ilula on Monday and spent today with the kids camp. It will go from Tuesday – Friday and our team will be doing the teaching Wednesday and Thursday.
When we prepared for this trip, we thought 200-250 children would arrive… possibly 300. We brought supplies for a little over 300 in each of the training centers. You can’t imagine our surprise when 420 children showed up yesterday! What a praise that God has called so many kids to join us. Now they are expecting even more (possibly 500) kids today and the following days.
When we were in Kipkaren, we thought there would be 250 – 300 kids but we ended up only doing a program for the 96 kids in the children’s home. That means we had 200 craft items and tooth brushes left over that we brought to Ilula. That makes 500!! God is SOOOOOO good.
This is just a glimpse of the blessings we are experiencing ministering here with ELI. We’ve had the opportunity to spend time with the kids in the home after dinner as well. Some of the kids have such a sad past, but there is so much love and unity within the homes. You can definitely see the love of Christ! If you haven’t ever been here, you should really pray about coming. I know you will be blessed.
Please pray for our time Wed and Thursday. We will be splitting into 5 groups. (about 100 kids per group). Pray that we will allow the Holy Spirit to direct our time and that we will be able to work in harmony with one another.
God bless you all!!
Linda Endo
For the Orange Coast Free Methodist Church team
(Brenda, Zack, Kaylee, Donna and Linda)
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i hope your kids camp went well!! especially since you each had about 100 kids on your hands!! its amazing how much God shows you through this trip, and through the children!!
say hi to all the kids for me, and tell them i miss them very much!! looking forward to hearing more about your days there, and keeping in touch afterwards too!!
God bless!!
-ashlea dedini
ilula team before you
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