Wrote this Nov 19

Praise God! We have arrived at Ah-Gah-Pay Mercy Children’s Centre (AMCC) in Kenya. It is another home to us, and we are with the AMCC staff, our brothers and sisters, and Rev. John’s parents are also our parents here. God has really blessed this place since we were last here, and we are so thankful! A few of the improvements:

- The kitchen has ventilation and a lot of new utensils.

- The location is safe and secure (we have been assured by three different local politicians).

- The children do not have to pull water from the well twice a day but there are holding tanks filled by the rain and a tap/faucet.

- There is electricity that seems to be reliable – no more walking 20 minutes to a friend’s shop to charge phones!

- Now, we have five staff members looking after 29 kids when they are all home. This is a much better ratio than 2:40.

We rejoice to be here and to have this pace of life for a few weeks. An example: at about 11:30, we went to greet our “parents” and we stayed until 2:30. Although we hadn’t made plans with them to visit, they fed us lunch, got and peeled sugar cane for us to chew, and told us about life in Kenya before independence. (We will be here over the 50^th independence celebration Dec 12.)

We slept very well last night and are enjoying our friends here and Kenyan chai. Trying to figure out our plans for heading to Uganda at the end of the week.