Bwanabob

1/9/2008

Dear Friends,

We are still doing fine in Eldoret, town is calm but we hear that there are still problems in the outlying villages where there are no police.  Many people are moving back to their “tribal homelands” which gives them safety but the only answer to curing the root of the problem is the Lord Jesus and learning to walk in His way.

So far the money that has come in has gone to buy food, about 1000 pounds, blankets and cooking pots.  The real need now is to try and move families to afe areas where they can start a normal life again.  Today I met a pastor who has been sleeping in a church compound along with many others from the Kikuyu tribe, since Dec 28.  Many there including the Pastor have lost family members to the violence, their church buildings and houses were burned and livestock killed or stolen.  The things that were done to their community were horrible and very similar to what took place in Rawanda. Thankfully, the violence and killing have been isolated to the Eldoret-Kisumu areas, granted there have been problems in other parts of Kenya but not as bad as here.  We hear of many places in Kenya where there were no problems at all and those folks are shocked to hear about what has happened here around Eldoret.

For those of you who have sent money to help please receive our thanks.  I wish you could hear all of the times I have been truly thanked by pastors and their family members.  Because Eldoret has several functioning ATM’s I was able to get some supplies right away to start helping folks as soon as I heard that checks were in the mail to me.  Now we will be working with a very close missionary friend here in Eldoret to get assistance to those who he knows have lost their homes and need assistance to start over.

We feel things are safe enough now for us to travel back to Lodwar and begin a new year in the Bible Institute and the ministry the Lord has put before us.  Please pray for us as we travel, I will be calling ahead to make sure there have been no problems on the road and plan to convoy with busses that drive to Lodwar every day.

God bless you all for your prayers and assistance to Kenyans who have suffered.  I will do my best to keep you posted on how things go with moving Kikuyu pastors and their families safe areas and helping them get started again.

In Christ, Bob Clark