Kenya update

Oh my goodness we are blown away by God's provision. More donations have come from people and I think we're at about 80% of what we need for the Kenya trip.....Praise God!! We have also raised enough money to build 3houses for 3 Maasai widows and there is more money being raised for more houses and cows. We are overwhelmed by God's greatness in this whole trip there are testimonies from quite a few people on the team about how God is really teaching them and providing for them.

Where we're at.......

Well we have 39 days left before we head to Kenya with the team so I thought an update would be good. Just to let you know that we've had two prayer evenings with the team and have been really encouraged by God. We met last tuesday evening and really felt God was leading us to look at the verse "Be still and know that I am God". When we're living in such a hecitc, busy world it's hard sometimes to be still. It's so easy to keep going so for our meeting we all went away on our own to different parts of our house and garden and spent time with God. It was so worthwhile, as when we came back we shared, felt encouraged, felt God was speaking and was recharging us and then we had a lovely time of prayer.

It's so encouraging to hear how many in the team are already growing before they even get out to Kenya. I love God that way he goes beyond what we can imagine and always in ways we don't necessarily see coming ; ) We've really been encouraged ourselves by getting donations from four people (you know who you are) and have so far raised 1250!!!!! so praise God for that. We've been so encouraged by it all but are also aware that we have 1326euro to go. So please do continue to pray for us and those on the team that still have money to raise. I do believe that God provides and look forward to learning and growing more in him.

We also found out that we will def be building houses for the widows and got the price of 460euro per house. This cost will include the transporting of materials etc. So if you would like to donate or pay for a house for a widow please know that that option is there also. It doesn't just have to be about our team going out but can also be towards these widows that have no homes. I know we ourselves feel we have been so blessed with a fab roof over our heads and are so aware that they're are many with no homes so again if you would like to put money towards that instead of us please let us know. Praise God for his provision for all of us and his love which never fails. He is really reminding me of that this week and the importance of remaining in him (John 14&15). Please do keep praying for the team.

Thanks for your support.

Linda & Alex Xo

Is it a shark

We had a great weekend with friends of ours, Heidi and Omar who came down from Dublin for the weekend to hang out with us. We relaxed, drank hot chocolate(the best in Ireland) and went wakeboarding on Sunday. Andrew tried to kill both myself and Omar on a ring but somehow we managed to survive.

I was in the water when linda said something about a fin (Alex out of the water) it turned out to be a dolphin and his mates who entertained us for 30 mins as we chased and watched them put on what only be described as an awesome display of God's creation.

Oh we also saw some dude crash a nice boat into another nice boat moving the boat and it's mooring up the river about 50 meters, wouldn't like to be paying the bill for that. There were a few choice words, some tears and alot of shaking but thankfully no-one was hurt.

Anyway we had a great weekend, photos to follow.

Interesting quote from Mother Theresa

Do it Anyway

People are often unreasonable, illogical
and self- centred.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness
they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway!

Update

Were excited to see what God is doing with the Kenya trip. We had a fundraising evening on sunday and three different churches led a night of worship. The groups all played a few songs and Linda and Phil Walsh spoke about what we would be doing over there. It was so encouraging to see all the churches mixing and worshiping together in unity and we also raised 700 Euro towards costs.

We called Robbie and Elizabeth last night and had a great chat and update last night. They told us about the lodge we would be staying in where there are Baboons and Leopards on the grounds, very exciting!!! We will also be building houses for the Massai Widows on the Land we were able to buy last year, will be great, Praise God.

It's been a hard week ministry wise with alot of niggling problems which need ironing out but we had a great rest in Bali and His timing is always perfect.

College group is exciting and refreshing and we are excited to see what God is going to do in the future, one of our group is off to Ibiza on an outreach trip, so very encouraging.

Hope this finds you all well, be blessed.