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Embracing God in the Wilderness

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Hello Friends! While agonizing with the Lord over something difficult in my life, I was reminded to re-read my blog posts.  This particular one reminded me that even though the storms come, God has been faithful in the past and He will continue to be faithful in the current circumstance. I hope you too recall God's faithfulness in your life.  I am now on the brink of seeing my business launched called Welcome Services, which will be coaching individuals through the stress of culture shock and training company employees on how to transition well cross-culturally. But this dream did not happen overnight.  I felt I needed to share with you how God has used Waiting as like an old friend to shape and mold me. I entered the Waiting Wilderness, when 16 years ago, doctors discovered I had a life long illness.  Young, passionate, and a burden to serve God as a missionary, I remember lying in bed, my body racked with pain. I felt trapped in my body and cheated

Hapa Kenya, Here in Kenya...

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I am writing from my room, overlooking the nature reserve. Hello praying friends!  In the three weeks since my arrival in Kenya God has lead me to some extraordinary people. Theresa, the director of a local HIV/AIDS clinic, shared with me her story of tragedy to triumph.  Years ago she found out she was HIV/AIDS positive after her unfaithful husband had abused her.  Not only did she find herself deathly ill but suffered from anger and bitterness from the injustice. As with most AIDS patients, she contracted tuberculosis.  No longer able to care for her only child it broke her heart to have to give him to an orphanage.  When she went into town to buy food, the local vendors would shout, “Here comes that woman with AIDS!”  As a result, everyone shunned her and she could no longer buy food.  She believes it was God’s mercy that lead her to an American Missionary Hospital where they nursed her back to health with antivirals. Now Theresa has dedicated her life to rebuilding the lives of