Photoministry

I've been blessed with a wonderful camera and I love taking pictures with it. I've decided that I want to begin a picture ministry. So many of these people may never have the chance to own a picture of themselves or their children. I plan on blessing everyone with a foto that would like one (which is everyone). The pictures cost me about 25 cents to print a 3x5. Small price to pay for something that's pricless. If this goes the way I think it will, I should probably look into printing my own cuz it will work out cheaper in the long run. What's 25 cents times 100,000 pictures?

Ahhhhhhmazing

Yesterday, just after 4am, Anisia gave birth to a 3 1/2 kg (close to 8 lbs) healthy baby boy. His name is Joshua. He was born with a small nub on each hand like an the beginning of an extra finger. 12 fingers...Joshua...Phophetic I'd say. I'm seeing a future government leader here.

Cassandra came to pick up her things that she left here and talked me into going back to Kitale with her. I'm glad she did because I needed to get away more than realized. We all went out to eat at a favorite spot. I had a pizza (not like home but it was good) and a cold Guinness (just like home). It was wonderful. It was great hanging out with my wazungu (white people) friends and watching a movie. We really treasure the little things that remind us of home.

I accompanied Cassandra to the Uganda border today. We hired a taxi because we were tight on time. The corruption with the police here is horrible. There are a lot of police checkpoints but if...no, when they find something wrong with your vehicle it only takes a small bribe to get through. Well, we got stopped and our taxi driver "forgot" his license. He wanted us to pay for the bribe but we said, "no". We don't want to feed coruption, that and the Spirit said "no". It was a little tense because we were very tight on time and I wasn't sure if they were going to detain our driver or not. He eventually paid the "fine" out of his own pocket and we were back on our way. All these events really opened up the oportunity for some good "God talk", so it was "pretty cool" (yeah, ok, so now I'm just "abusing" my "quotation privalages").

I've been having trouble uploading pictures but I hope to have some up very soon.
G'nite!

Events of the day

Today Noah, Anisia and I headed off in the morning to run some errands in town. On the way we passed a semi truck that had a tire blowout and flipped on its side. This is a common scene along the highway where we live. It’s the main road between the port at Mombasa and our neighboring country, Uganda. On a warm day we hear a number of blowouts just near our compound. Kenya doesn’t have the standards for their trucks that we have in the States (or if they do they aren’t enforced which seems to be the case in many areas here). The tires that these trucks run on are usually old worn retreads. Not only that, but they drive way too fast. The speed limit for trucks here is 80kph (55mph) and 40kph through town. Many of the trucks blow by our place at 120kph even though they should be slowing to 40kph. The drivers just honk to let you know they’re coming and you better get out of their way.

When we got back home we found surveyors from a gasoline company that is running a pipeline from Mombasa, Kenya to Kampala, Uganda. One good thing about this line is it will reduce the number trucks hauling gas passed our place but the down side is the pipe is going right through our property. There is a 25 meter no build easement that we will have to maintain. This causes a problem because we will have to move the guest house that we’ve already began building. There should be an assessor here within the week that will evaluate the damages we will incur so we can be reimbursed. Please pray that this works out in our favor since it is causing some problems with the layout of the buildings on our site.