This update serves two purposes: 1.  News on Kenya 2.  News from Eburru   1.  Kenya: CNN reported today, “Kenya’s opposition party says it will embark on a “mass civil disobedience campaign next week” if its demands aren’t met in…

As I sit at home this evening I feel almost guilty for having a normal day when my friends in Kenya are hoping that they will make it through another long night. We have been trying to keep up with…

My first time in a town called Eburru was in 2005.  Eburru is a town in the mountains, filled with Kikuyus, with no running water and electricity.  We helped put up a church which really just consisted of tarps tied together. …

As you have read Dominic Mutua was seriously injured in the violence in Kibera and was taken to Kenyatta Hospital.  I called to check on him and was able to get a hold of Francis Anubi who assured me he…

  An MP (Member of Parliament), Were, belonging to the ODM party and Luo which is Raila Odinga’s tribe was killed earlier this week as he was entering his home near Kibera. This caused riots in the city and many other…

Violence continues to reign in Kenya.  I wish with all my heart that I could give you an update of a peaceful weekend.  But life in Kenya seems to have gone from worse to horrible.   Just today around 2,000…

It looks like President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga met for the first time since the election with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.     I just spoke with Pastor Simon, being the realist he is, said that he had…

    Quoting Martin Luther King, Raila (the opposition leader) said: “I have a dream that one day the people of this county shall not be judged by their tribe but by the content of their character”.   Violence in…

I wanted to give you an update on how the money you have sent in to help Kenya is being used and to ask you to continue to pray. Currently we have sent funds to two different locations both of…