A Prayer Request

Esther & Peter

To all of our friends and followers, 

We humbly ask you to help us with a prayer request. Could you pray for our friend, Esther? We worked with her in Kenya this past spring. We have just received an email from Pastor Brian Thomson of Home of Hope. Esther, who is on staff with Home of Hope in Nairobi, has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. The local doctor has said she will need an operation to remove the affected breast. Thereafter she will need six months of chemotherapy and four months of radiation. The doctors have warned her that because she is so under weight that it might take a toll on her body.

Esther works for the local Word of Life church and is also involved with microloans, feeding desperate children, and the Stella project in Kayole that reaches into the Soweto slum. She and her husband, Peter, are amazing servants and so loving!

I have seen her work first-hand and she is an amazing woman! Please keep her in your prayers and share this message with others. I have written to her and promised her a prayer chain that stretches around the world. Thank you in advance.

All things are possible with God and we are believing for divine healing.

My child, pay attention to what I say.

    Listen carefully to my words.

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Don’t lose sight of them.

    Let them penetrate deep into your heart,

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for they bring life to those who find them,

    and healing to their whole body. 

Proverbs 4:20-22 (NLT)

Love,

Michelle

Mums to Slums

I write to you today at the end of a wonderful day. Have you ever reconnected with old friends, and there is a feeling that you were never apart for long? Such was the case for me today as I re-visted my MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers) group. Due to doing preschool at home, I have been unable to attend this year, but was invited back to speak about our trip to Africa. What a blessing! I have truly missed getting together with other moms in the same life stage to discuss our current struggles and (sometimes) distant dreams. 

We talked a lot about the slum in Nairobi, Kenya that Michelle and I will be visiting.I have been learning a little about the slums there. About how dangerous they can be. About the open sewers. About how many people live in such a crowded area. About the despair.  But I know it is God's will that we go, and I want to be His tool, guided by His hands.  It is for His children that I want to go and not only help, but to learn from the people there. I may have grown up and live in the elite of the world, but I am well aware that these people and babies halfway across the world have much to teach me.

After a whirl wind day of being here and there, I am ready to take some time with my Maker to be still. I ask that you too do the same, and pray for those living in the slums throughout the world. Although this is normally declared at the beginning of the day, I can gladly declare that This is the Day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it.