My dear friends,I am blessed and humbled to report to you what God has sent me to do for my three week ministry assignment in Kenya. My good friend, Sarah Griner (who I met previously through Students Training in Missions) and I will be ministering to the slum community of Kibera. We will be quite busy most of our days- caring for disabled people in the morning (we are partnering with Sisters of Charity), teaching small children in the afternoon, and establishing contacts with pastors (fervent men and women of God we had met on our visit last week) for future Global Projects. This is the first time there has been an IV global project in this area and Sarah and I are pioneers. Like many men and women God called in the Bible I feel completely ill-equipped and inadequate for this mission, but all I can do is trust in God, knowing that he will take care of Sarah and I as we build relationships with people we'll daily come in contact with. Please, please keep us in your prayers. This place is definitely battleground, and I want to love and identify with the people I encounter, rather than look on them with pity or guilt. Most importantly, it is by faith that we go on this mission, so please pray that we will be strengthened through Christ's power and we will continually see his faithfulness to us. I will try to send out updates continually as I will be living in a residential community but will be on very little. Thanks for your prayers and continued encouragement. Bwana Asifiwe!

yours in Christ,
Janelle