Before I even say anything about my trip to Kenya this year, I have to glorify God for the work that He has done.  Prior to leaving God visibly answered my prayers by providing my visa for entry into the country on a week before I left on the specific day that I prayed for, which was cool.  Additionally, two weeks before I left, I had been blessed with a total amount of $7500 that had been given for the orphanage which was half of my total goal for the children’s home.  One week before I left, I found a check on my desk from several anonymous donors that amounted to another $7500!  Which brought my total to $15,000 the target goal needed for building the orphanage!!  Praise God!  So my goal was reached, but it didn’t feel like it was the end of something, more like the beginning of something big…

Then I left for Kenya, and was thoroughly blessed by my time there.  I spent the first few days in awe of the changes that God had brought about in the previous eleven months.  We had the start of the children’s home, we had six sheep that we didn’t haven’t the year before, a small two-room nursery school, chickens, and our cows (Montana and Gift) were healthy and growing.  It was great.  I was introduced to our fundi (carpenter or expert) Joseph Omuse (another Christian brother), and we went to work continuing the building.  Additionally,  during my time there, I had multiple opportunities to preach in churches and for a couple of youth retreats.  Unfortunately, we had a little trouble transferring the funds over for building and our work was halted for a short while, but we found some other projects to do, like building desks for our school house and building a chicken coop and proper sheep corral with some other money that had been transferred over.  So I praise God for the work that I was able to help accomplish.

So, what’s next for this work and CTM in general?  Well, in Africa, my goal this year is to purchase an adjacent piece of land in order to farm and grow maize and beans and vegetables and so that we have a place to graze our cattle.  The target goal for that is $10,000 which is a bit on the steep side I will admit, but it gives us a platform to be able start ministry in that community.  Additionally, in the future, we would like to be able to expand our school to be able to teach all the children grades K-8, and then set them up with a sponsor who can help pay the school fees for secondary school (high school).  Stateside, though our goals are to establish Certain Truth Ministry as a legitimate non-profit organization to be able to give tax-deductible receipts for the donations that I receive and for financial accountability.  I am currently working on the paperwork part of that, and getting the official language down and then submitting it all.  However, there is a cost involved with starting an organization like this and I am looking a need of about $1000.  But I know that if this is something that God wants to work out, we will do the work of it and make it happen.

Please partner with me in prayer as I continue this adventure and consider the possibility of financial support of this ministry either for a project or on a monthly basis.  Thank you and may God bless you!