In Country

*This was sent out by email newsletter on April 28th.  Update coming later today.

Greetings from Kenya!

We thank God for a safe trip to Kenya, where all of us enjoyed smooth plane rides and recovered all of our 16 pieces of luggage at the airport!

After a short night sleep and a trip to the money machines as they are called here, (ATM) to get Kenyan cash, we arrived at Wildebeest Camp where the children were already busy playing and having fun with thanks to  Al Reinken who had spent the previous night there.  What a great camp leader!

The morning was spent getting organized, reconnecting with the children and taking all kinds of pictures.  Jim Stratakos,our retired photographer is in paradise and already ran out of batteries!!!

In the afternoon we split the teams and tackled the serious work with children evaluations and introduction of a Kenyan youth advisor who will help us guide our kids to the right school after their secondary studies.

Kelli Dawkins, who has spent hours and hours preparing for this, made it look very easy and got the kids attention and then their questions once they started to open up.

The elementary kids found themselves involved with Jenni Dugan, and from all over the place you could hear giggles and good hearty laughs!  Not sure who is having the most fun here!!!  I will admit that I dropped what I was doing and joined them for a session of "goofy pictures" that we will share with you soon.

Tim Klund, Ramona Havas and Bob Boekhout are all over, giving a hand where needed - three great mission trip buddies!

Now if you wonder what I AM doing??? Enjoying myself and as usual cracking the whip on others' backs!!!  I tell you, this ministry is really special.  Sure I am prejudiced but  believe me, God is watching over this every single minute of the day and distributing blessings to each one of us, one after the other.  If you do not believe me, wait until you ask the others!

Hopefully by tomorrow we will get the blog going and we will try to put in some pictures for you to see.

Thanks for keeping us in your prayers: it works!

The children are sending their love and best regards to their sponsors!

Blessings

Monique

Return to Kenya!

KOP is conducting a Mission Trip to  Kenya for the first time since 2009!

Eight of us will be spending time with “the children”, visiting the boarding schools they attend and having fun activities such as a trip to a local public swimming pool!  And of course, it is our intention to bring back tons of pictures to show you what your support and prayers are accomplishing in Kenya.