October News

Staff Dorothy at Roo with Children

 

Community Transformation through Christian Environmental Education-

 a catalyst for hope, an effective tool for discipleship and empowerment

“Then the nations round about you will know that I the Lord have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken and will do it.” Ezekiel 36:36

                                                                                                                        October 1, 2011

Dear Friends,

Sincere thanks to you and to God for YOUR ANSWERED PRAYERS!

• SALARIES-Salaries came in so that by the 15^th of September all staff salaries were paid to date. The staff had continued to work hard with faith, showing their commitment but were so grateful to be able to have money to pay rent and grocery debts.
• PROMISED LAND. For 15 years you have prayed with us for the “Promised Land,” that middle piece of land, around 7 ½ acres between the other two pieces of land we own. Although the owner refused to sell it to us, we felt God’s encouragement that it was already ours in the spiritual realm, but now the original owner died and his son is willing to sell it by February. We are excited at the prospect of a nature conservancy for children where they can learn about God and His creation that the purchase will enable us to create with the partnership of Kenya Wildlife Services. We think we can purchase the property for $16,000. Ruma National Park will give us 2 giraffe and a number of antelope!
• Also the motorcycle you prayed to be licensed and in operation is out on the streets now doing much good, constantly in use for many kingdom purposes.

TRAVELS:  We left home (Mbita) the 6^th of September, exhausted though BLESSED IN ABUNDANCE by all God was doing, challenged always by the spiritual warfare.

God gave us 9 wonderful days with Andre Brink at Walking with Maasai in Loita Hills, 7000 feet above sea level, crisscrossed by ancient elephant paths on the border of Tanzania and Kenya. It is an amazing Eco Tour Camp, in true wilderness, where the Maasai conduct their lives as in more ancient times. Wildlife roam through the place as they feel safe there. The Community benefits from the income of the tourists who stay there and thus they protect the land and animals. Don is the overall director of the board for WWM. Andre with his team of Maasai is building this amazing camp, creatively highlighting natural beauty and fiercely adhering to Biblical standards. If you would like to camp there, let us know or check the website: WalkingWithMaasai.com.

We spent over a week of travel with arrangements definitely not going as planned, but still tremendously blessed. A Brititsh visitor returning home from Loita kindly allowed us to travel with him to Nairobi and paid the whole fare. We arrived home to a house well supplied by our son Mark. We have been taking time to rest, and the daze is lifting daily!

All your children will be discipled by the Lord, and great will be the well being of your children.  Isaiah 54:13

This is a great promise from God, expressing His will, something for which Christ paid the price at Calvary, a promise to cling to til we see the children of Africa become not the needy ones, but rather the ones whom the Lord has blessed to be a blessing.

Since the Children’s March for Jesus, it has continued to rain for over six weeks.  Hezron reports that children keep showing up for prayer meetings. Recently on a Sunday afternoon, when youth (18-35 year olds) were scheduled to go up to the hill for an afternoon of prayer, he found over 20 ten year olds with their Bibles, fervently in prayer for several hours.  May God continue to bring in His kingdom in greater Suba through the children. This is God’s doing and it is marvelous.

TELEVISION: Recently Don was on national television, having been interviewed by a free lance journalist concerning the pollution causing algae blooms which are killing the fish population. We are now working on a toilet design for local fishing boats that would prevent the nightly pollution of Lake Victoria by over 40,000 fishermen.

Prayers: Please add your prayers to ours and celebrate the results with us.

“You can ask the Father anything in My Name and I will do it. Jn. 14.14”

• Guidance and success for profitable use of time while in the USA
• Web page of excellence that glorifies God.
• The widows’ pillows business to continue to flourish as it provides for six widows to work 
• Salaries on time and in full..with abundance 
• Outpouring of the Spirit on the children-that they be blessed to be a blessing 

• Release of vehicle from Narok Police Station: No it wasn’t bad. It just broke down there and they have been looking after it for almost a year. Please pray it out of jail and repaired.
• A healed Mbita and Suba District population: environmental degradation and the resulting poverty. corruption, filth, AIDS, malaria, poverty and immorality to become vague memories instead of present realities.
• Nyachebe Beach biogas project to be implemented.
• Recycling, multistory and Arbor Loo businesses to take off and really provide for locals
• Museum completed
• Success of boat toilet project and healing of Lake Victoria’s fish population- “You can give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. You can teach a man to fish, and he can eat as long as fish populations hold out!”

Danny and Michelle Johnson have taken over the accounting for Kenya Islands Missions, Inc. Starting now, please send any checks to KENYA ISLANDS MISSION INC. PO Box 84, Lowell, AR 72745. Or you can still give through Paypal at www.missionwild.org. Thanks to Jeanie Morgan for 12 years of unpaid service to this ministry!  She has been wonderful.

If you would like to participate in this ministry here are some opportunities:

• Provide for a staff’s salary – ranges from $85 to $500 per month.
• Provide a widow a toilet $52
• Provide a widow a sack vegetable garden $17
• An Outreach to Children $25
• Train and license a staff to drive Motor bike $88
• 1 mattress for camp bunks $35 (12 needed)
• Sponsor a Camp for a School Class One day $167. 2 days $334, 3 days $500
• Solar lighting in Acacia House Dormitory $100
• Water catchment off the huge education centre roof $1000
• Dairy Goat Barn $300
• Stopping bat entry points in Education Center $91
• Boma for camp meetings, with camp fire pit    $173
• Solar fridge $1364
• Vehicle repaired $5800
• Generator  $450
• Provide t-shirts for our Children of Destiny 40 of them at $2.50 each

Thanks so very much for caring,

Love and blessings,

Don and Nancy Richards

P.O. Box 349 Mbita 40305 Suba District Kenya

Cell: 254 703 676 760  E-mail:  KenyaSeek@aol.com