The needs are overwhelming at times – God is good all the time, all the time God is Good!

 The past few days have been especially hard with the hospital packed with patients and even more deaths than we have seen since we have been here. Kyle has be on call and goes in all hours of the night. One patient passed away as he was working on him, another was brought into the hospital with her twins, one already passed away and then the mother passed away, one young 13 year old girl tried to poison herself and passed away right after getting here. It is a great reminder of the fact that life is short and we do not know when our time will be when we pass into eternity.

Each day I have had the opportunity to visit with groups of people and individuals. I spoke to the Nursing School students one morning and spoke to them on The Character of Jesus as seen in His own words from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and then His final words in Revelation 22 – “Surely I am coming quickly”. I visited the girls school and spoke to the teachers and a classroom of students, and then took a tour of the future AIC Kapsowar School of Theology, visited with Robert the pastor of the main Church at the hospital where they have a Christian school for about 300 students and quite an outreach in the community with church planting, outreach to other schools and training young people and others to understand their faith. The thing that came out in each visit was needs that they made available for us to consider. The needs were from $350 to over $20,000 to meet the immediate needs. Then there had been the ones coming to us and Kyle and Vanessa's home daily with needs from just small amounts of shillings to meet their needs to larger amounts. The requests are never ending. I trust that God gives wisdom and that He loves a cheerful giver. What a great opportunity we have had to be here these past few weeks in Kapsowar and see what God has been doing though these saints here in Kenya.

I had a most exciting experience on Friday as I got to experience a surgery of a man who had lost most of his left hand in a grinder. It was a two hour reconstructive surgery in what some have said is the 2^nd worst surgery room in the world. Thankfully `Kapsowar has received a gift to build a new double surgery room which should be open within a few months. I visited with the patient later about 4 in the afternoon and he was one of the most gracious people I have met. He was so thankful for the surgery and even my follow up and prayer with him. I took many pictures during the surgery as many years ago I had two employees working for a company I worked for that were de gloved just like this man. I find the patients at Kapsowar so thankful and also so needy. Each day I have had the opportunity to share Christ with patients and have seen not only the patients that have prayed to receive Christ but also some of their family members. We have loved the whole body ministry that Kyle and Vanessa have here in Kenya

Saturday was Hudson's 6^th birthday and 29 African children came over for the party. It was a wonderful time and Hudson said it was the best birthday ever. The gifts were few and a few homemade including a stick with a couple of lids nailed on the end of the stick to roll around. The kids loved the games, the cake was wonderful and it was a delight to see them enjoying the simple things of the day. We were reminded that gifts are not what birthdays are all about. Little Hudson gathered all the kids at the end of the day and thanked them for coming and invited them to stay as long as they wanted.

As Kyle and I went into Center (which is the main street in town) we were approached by the Pastor of the main church in town to tell me that I am preaching on Sunday morning at one of their sister churches. We leave for a few days of vacation with Kyle and Vanessa and the boys Sunday afternoon. Kyle has been on call for the past three days and worked lots of hours. Pray for his strength and ongoing ministry to these precious people.