Bwanabob

11/2/2007
Dear Friends,

This past Sunday I had a good visit to one of the churches we work with in a village called Namoruputh, Joseph is the pastor there. We had planned to have seminar lessons for the church members Thurs -Sat, but when we arrived on Thurs. we found that everyone in the community was waiting at the local baraza “square” to have their names written down to receive relief food. It’s hard for us westerners to comprehend how important 20 pounds of corn is to folks living in the bush here in Kenya, but let me tell you that when the chance comes around to get your name on a list to receive free corn everything else and I mean everything comes to a screaching halt. The list was supposed to be made on Thursday, but names didn’t actually get taken till Saturday afternoon. So, most of our time there was spent waiting for the listing to commence. Africans are very paitent, I tried, but had a bad attitude most of Thurs and Friday. I got over it. On Saturday morning pastor Joseph asked everyone to come to the church for lessons and planned to have one of the youth wait at the baraza to bring word if the list was actually being drawn up. We were able to teach lessons till 12:30 and then word came that things were actually moving on making the list.

Each evening we showed Christian videos, The Jesus Film and had a time of preaching. There were more people in the village because they wanted to get on the relief list and I believe that many came out to see the films and hear the preaching who wouldn’t have otherwise been around. All things work together for good.

On Sunday we had good services with two hours of Sunday School and then a preaching service followed by a baptism service. It was a real blessing to see folks ready to hear the Word and we were able to baptize 12. The service started at 8 AM and we didn’t finish with the baptism service till about 12:30.

Please keep praying for us and the work here in Turkana. The pastors who are involved with the Bible Institute have agreed to take over complete opperation and funding starting next year. I have agreed to teach them how to print lessons, use computers and finish all the buildings that will be needed in the future. Pray for all of us to have strength and courage in the Lords ability to do things above what we can ask or think.

Things are really starting to turn hot, dry and dusty here in Turkana but we are healthy and thankful for that.

God bless you all and thank you for praying for us.

In Christ, Bob Clark