It’s another warm day here in Kipkaren, next to the equator we’re all learning that sunscreen truly is a must! But we’re still moving right along on all of our projects and we have been blessed to have a lot of interest and participation in all of our workshops. The First Aid course brought in 60 people for the first day. The class was full of high school students, Ag students, clinic staff, community members, and children’s home parents. Today our instructor Jenn focused on recognizing emergencies and providing care quickly, a very important aspect of care from such a rural area. Most importantly helping them realize that they don’t have to be a doctor or a nurse to provide care and help save a life. Topics today included breathing emergencies, providing CPR, and a very fun hands on activity using a choking vest, basically shooting food across the room.
Tim and Brenda headed out this morning with Issac Mwebi to go and see some actual “Farming God’s Way” field trials. We were quite pleased to see a number of small farmers applying the principles and seeing very nice results. Our first stop was at a Missions training university, where we had a chance to visit with the president of the school, tour the plot with him and explain some of the principles of FGW. They were very excited about sharing this with their missionary teams as they go to drier parts of the country to minister. Issac also welcomed into his shamba (farm) to show us his very successful maize crop being grown out of the normal season. Farmers who applied the FGW concepts have shown to get 2 to 3 crops instead of 1, this is Isaac’s third crop this year on dryland. It’s exciting when the instructor sees such potential as he shares this training with new growers! The good news is spreading!!!
Tonight was the first night of the Women’s conference. 24 women so far are in attendance, and expecting more tomorrow! Trish, Vickie and Tonya introduced themselves, and got a chance to hear about all the women so far at the conference. They ended the evening with praise and worship and a devotion from Pastor Helen focusing on the verse for the conference, Joshua 1:9.
We’re in to our 4th Alpha video session with the Ag students. They seem to be genuinely interested and have been asking a lot of good questions. We’re grateful for the opportunity to share our Christian faith even though we come from different parts of the world.
The team is all doing good and staying safe, well fed, and blessed. Ps…the Zebra is in the car!
Tim and Brenda headed out this morning with Issac Mwebi to go and see some actual “Farming God’s Way” field trials. We were quite pleased to see a number of small farmers applying the principles and seeing very nice results. Our first stop was at a Missions training university, where we had a chance to visit with the president of the school, tour the plot with him and explain some of the principles of FGW. They were very excited about sharing this with their missionary teams as they go to drier parts of the country to minister. Issac also welcomed into his shamba (farm) to show us his very successful maize crop being grown out of the normal season. Farmers who applied the FGW concepts have shown to get 2 to 3 crops instead of 1, this is Isaac’s third crop this year on dryland. It’s exciting when the instructor sees such potential as he shares this training with new growers! The good news is spreading!!!
Tonight was the first night of the Women’s conference. 24 women so far are in attendance, and expecting more tomorrow! Trish, Vickie and Tonya introduced themselves, and got a chance to hear about all the women so far at the conference. They ended the evening with praise and worship and a devotion from Pastor Helen focusing on the verse for the conference, Joshua 1:9.
We’re in to our 4th Alpha video session with the Ag students. They seem to be genuinely interested and have been asking a lot of good questions. We’re grateful for the opportunity to share our Christian faith even though we come from different parts of the world.
The team is all doing good and staying safe, well fed, and blessed. Ps…the Zebra is in the car!
Woo Hoo !!!! Praying mightily for you all. So glad for the updates and news of the zebra!
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