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Thanksgiving is a special time everywhere and we make it so here.  At 5pm yesterday we were 13 people to our house for a wonderful meal plus time of giving thanks and singing.  We were not lacking for food as …

The Lycce Vanette girls school opened in this September.  The CEUM wants to empower girls to be future leaders in their community and in the church. Too often girls have not had the same opportunities to go to school as …

Pastors John Kiruga and Nahashon Ngoima of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Kenya (ECCK) are doing well in their seminary studies at the Africa International University (AIU) in Nairobi. We had a wonderful visit with them back in September. They …

The Paul Carlson Partnership (PCP) blog entry “What is a Sustainable Community?” got me thinking about what do we mean by sustainability? In the PCP blog, the question of sustainability is directed to the local community context. After …

We saw a creative chick brooder when we visited JITOKEZE, a women’s empowerment initiative partially supported by Covenant World Relief. In order to provide the heat needed for a brooder for very young chicks, this model combines the women’s cook …

The Morpus Primary School and Rescue Center we visited in the Chepuraria area of Kenya is a key institution in Kenya’s efforts to end early marriage (under age 18) and female genital mutilation (FGM).

The JITOKEZE women’s empowerment NGO in …

We had a good time two weeks ago leading a short vision seminar about CHE in South Sudan. Attending were 30 leaders of the two Covenant churches in Juba, South Sudan. We started with the story of the river crossing …

I was very impressed with the work that Phillipine Kidulah is doing through JITOKEZE, www.jitokeze.org, in the Kapenguria area of Kenya. Jitokeze, a partner with Covenant World Relief, is a grassroots community-based organization that seeks to improve food security …

Wednesday we visited Simon Kamau’s farm of 9 acres of French beans near Mwea, Kenya. Beautiful! We tasted a couple and they were nice and tender. Yesterday, Friday, they were to harvest again. Simon will hire up to 100 local …

Yes, we all scream for ice cream, especially when the motor on the new ice cream freezer we brought out in June burned out the first time we used it.  Sadness.  But then I finally asked the local electrician …