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I'm from the Pacific Northwest. Rain used to comfort me. Now it wakes me from sleep to check on the flooding.
Josiah asked if he cld do more chores in exchange for money. He wants to save up 700Shillings ($7) for "good cereal" (which is $7-$8 a box)!
Further explanation: Apparently Josiah found his wallet and counted what he had - 270 Shillings - which isn't enough for Fruit Loops or Frosted Flakes unless you go for the brands that taste like stale cardboard. We can get Kellogs and other "American" cereal (what Josiah rightly refers to as "good cereal") in Nairobi from time to time. Prices for actual American cereal (which is usually from the UK) range from $7 a box to $9 a box. We have JUST started getting Malt-o-Meal boxes here at significants savings ($5-$6 a box)! Believe it or not, I actually bring cereal from the United States when I travel for work and we save it for a special occasion! "It's our anniversary! Let's have Honey Bunches of Oats for our special dinner!"
You might think this article by National Geographic which was published on April 1st is an April Fool's Joke, but it's not. We live about one mile from the Nairobi National Park which is a 45 square mile wilderness area that is currently home to about 35 lions. They do, of course, wander...
"I’m looking for my new, orange sandals. They don’t appear anywhere for me these days." -Josiah, age 6
Today's Swahili Proverb (I'm at language school): "A fish can be bent while it is still fresh." (You can't teach an old dog new tricks)
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An abstract by Dr. Jacque Breman, who will be working with the Meyers on this year's Agricultural Consultancy Project:
Delano and Linda Meyers, from Chokio, Minnesota, have spent most of their 17 years as LCMS missionaries in Western African countries. They are now responding to Lutheran church requests for the subjects they are teaching, in East African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi).
The Meyer husband-wife team teach the following subjects at Lutheran churches from the scriptural perspective of stewardship:
The Meyers have been invited by Reverend Wowa, Excecutive Chairman, Confessional Lutheran Church, Malawi Synod (CLC); to teach these 7 subjects, at as many CLC churches possible, during the month of February.
In order to maximize the agricultural teaching and farm visits the Meyers recruited Jacque as a short-term LCMS missionary with experience in tropical agriculture and third world experiences. The vision is to expand the agricultural lessons portion in February and train Jacque for future short-term work. To quote from Reverend Wowa’s letter “We hope, by God’s Grace, he [Jacque] will touch the soil of Malawi and serve us with agricultural lessons.”
A permanent LCMS project in Africa has been established for this work: Project #61007 Agricultural Consultancy in East Africa. If you would like to support this continuing project, funding is routed to LCMS through Mission Central by sending a check to:
Mission Central
Gary Thies, Mission Development Counselor
40718 Hwy. E-16
Mapleton, IA 51034-7105
Agricultural Consultancy in East Africa is a continuing LCMS short-term missionary effort, during the Chokio, Minnesota winter months, as the Meyers taper their missionary efforts towards their retirement. Opportunities for prayer and financial support will continue.
Prayer requests for January 31 through March 2, 2016 for Malawi:
Where is Malawi?
What are the major religions in Malawi?
Languages?
Project24 is an initiative that was started between the LCMS Office of International Mission and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya. This initiative provides school boarding facilities in Kenya that give vulnerable children the opportunity successfully to complete primary or secondary school education while living at a site, a home away from home. Each site provides a Christ-centered, loving, caring and safe environment. Every pupil is afforded daily opportunities for Scripture engagement, catechesis and worship. The goal is for him or her to grow in faith and celebrate Christ’s claim on his or her life in joyful recognition of God’s forgiveness worked by grace through faith.
The boarding facilities provide several services such as adequate lodging, meals, school fees and related school expenses, medical care, an appropriate play area, adult oversight, scholastic tutoring, emotional support and spiritual care. This is provided free of cost to the children and their families during the school year. On school holidays, children are expected to return to their families, extended families or clans to foster family connections and to help develop their ancestral identities. There are four operational sites and the hope for 24 in the future.
Christ’s Care for Children: Kenya is a child sponsorship program, initiated by the LCMS Office of International Mission. It is directly linked to the Project 24 sites in Kenya. It is through care and compassion for these children that they receive safe housing, food, education and spiritual care. Each site is strategically located near an Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya church and school so that the children can receive academic as well as spiritual teaching and care.
Currently the four operational sites have 140 children who are in need of sponsorship. The number is expected to increase in 2016. This is purely a child sponsorship program. Each child will have his or her own digital packet that will contain a one-page description of the project/site where the child comes from, information about the child along with his/her picture and then any continuous updates. The child’s digital packet will be sent to the donor when the match is confirmed as well as in the months of January and May of every year. The child’s reports, which will include their welfare, spiritual engagement, school grades and performance, will be made available quarterly.
The program welcomes donors to visit their sponsor child and the place where they stay in the months of February, June or October of every year.
Read the recent Lutherans Engage the World article: https://blogs.lcms.org/2016/christs-care-for-childrens-bodies-and-souls-in-kenya
View the photo gallery: lcms.org/photo/christs-care-kenya
Sponsor a child: Visit lcms.org/givenow/christs-care-for-children-kenya, or contact LCMS Mission Advancement at 888-930-4438 or by emailing mission.advancement@lcms.org
(Heading to the grocery store) Josiah:"You should take us to the play area so you enjoy yourself & don't have to yell at us while you shop!"
CHRISTMAS IN MOZAMBIQUE (written by the pastors of the Lutheran Church in Mozambique)
There is no Christmas Tree in Mozambique. They don’t have this tradition and this kind of tree is not cultivated there.
There are no lights all over inside and outside the houses, shops and streets. They don’t even have electricity in most of their villages.
There are no sweets and homemade cookies and cakes for children and adults to enjoy. If they have a plate of rice or something more, that’s all. Their daily food is chima (ugali), made from white corn flour. Rice is only for special occasions.
There are neither gifts to share nor toys for the children. There is no money to buy any gift.
There is no Christmas dinner with a table full of nuts, dry and fresh fruits, and a special tender/gammon or any other kind of meat. They don’t even have tables in their straw huts.
St. Claus sleigh doesn’t have Mozambique on his route. Father Christmas: “What is that?”
There is no last minute rush to the malls and shopping. There are no malls and their needs are straight related to their stomach.
BUT THERE IS STILL CHRISTMAS IN MOZAMBIQUE:
A Christmas full of songs and joy when the Christians gather together in the church to celebrate the coming of the Saviour;
A Christmas full of thanksgiving prayers that the true Light is shining upon them now, because they were wandering in darkness in the recent past;
A Christmas full of hope when the Gospel is read and the promises of God are renewed;
A Christmas full of love when the extended family come together after the church service to celebrate and to share a pot of rice and maybe a piece of meat if they can afford it;
A Christmas centered on Christ, and not focused on other kinds of traditions, that are good and that I enjoy a lot; but for some people the traditions are more important than Christ…
“Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people” – also for the people in Mozambique! “Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you” – also for the people in Mozambique! “He is the Christ the Lord!” – Luke 2: 10-11.
*Translated by President Emeritus Rev. Carlos Walter Winterle
If you are interested in supporting the church’s work in Mozambique, please send your gift designated for "60606 - Mozambique" to:
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
PO Box 66861
St. Louis, MO 63166-6861
Or to:
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Mission Central
40718 Hwy. E16
Mapleton, IA 51034
"American" chocolate chip cookies at Nakumatt. Taste okay, cashews and all, but they look like the tops of muffins!
View Missionary's lives through the eyes of Rev. Billy Brath of RevCreative (http://revcreative.org/) while he visits and documents his experience in a series "Kenya With the Trumps: A Reporting Series on Visiting Missionaries":
View Missionary's lives through the eyes of Rev. Billy Brath of RevCreative (http://revcreative.org/) while he visits and documents his experience in a series "Kenya With the Trumps: A Reporting Series on Visiting Missionaries":
View Missionary's lives through the eyes of Rev. Billy Brath of RevCreative (http://revcreative.org/) while he visits and documents his experience in a series "Kenya With the Trumps: A Reporting Series on Visiting Missionaries":
View Missionary's lives through the eyes of Rev. Billy Brath of RevCreative (http://revcreative.org/) while he visits and documents his experience in a series "Kenya With the Trumps: A Reporting Series on Visiting Missionaries":
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