We just visited the CWR sponsored poultry project in Kitengala,\u00a0Kenya. Pastor Simon explained all of the difficulties they had\u00a0encountered implementing the project during the past year. Due to\u00a0inexperience they tried to raise too many broiler chickens in the\u00a0available space.\u00a0As a result they lost many chickens and the ones\u00a0that did survive were quite small. They eventually cut the number of chicks in half and had a 97% survival rate and much larger chickens\u00a0after the five week growing cycle. Then the price of feed sky\u00a0rocketed and they were not able to provide enough feed to the\u00a0chickens. Both the egg laying chickens and the broilers started dying.\u00a0They sent an emergency appeal to the CWR Commission and additional\u00a0funds were approved. In the meantime several neighbors in the\u00a0community heard about the dying chickens and loaned funds to the\u00a0Kitengala Covenant Church to buy more feed. The additional CWR funds\u00a0were enough to pay off the loans and buy adequate feed. For the past\u00a0several months the business has been making enough off of the sales of\u00a0broilers and eggs to buy enough feed, improve infrastructure, and have\u00a0a healthy profit left over.\u00a0In July the church found out about some Congolese refugees who\u00a0were living in the area and in desperate need of food and basic supplies. The church decided to use most of the profits to care for\u00a0the refugees.\u00a0 Some of the Congolese people shared their stories\u00a0today. Because of the war in Congo these people fled north with a\u00a0large number of orphaned children whose parents had been killed in the\u00a0war. This group struggled to survive and many died on the journey. But\u00a0after three years 243 refugees arrived in the Kitengala area.\u00a0 Most of\u00a0these folks have become a part of the Kitengala Covenant Church, some\u00a0of them walking more than five miles one way to the church from where\u00a0they live. In addition to food and basic supplies the church is\u00a0providing English classes so that the chiildren can enter the Kenya\u00a0school system and so that the adults will be able to get jobs. We met\u00a0a nurse, a young man with a law degree, and a social worker who speak\u00a0French. HOwever they will have to learn English to work in Kenya. In\u00a0the meantime several of the Congolese refugees have been hired by the\u00a0poultry project leaders to sell eggs in the market and this is\u00a0providing them with much needed income.\u00a0Several months into the poultry project, Pastor Simon and the other\u00a0leaders were in great distress thinking that the poultry project would\u00a0fail. However they now marvel at how God saved the project and enabled\u00a0them to reach out to the desperate Congolese refugees who appeared on\u00a0the scene just in time to become the unexpected beneficiaries of this\u00a0project.<\/p>\n