Sisters On A Mission

With one week underway, Jody has been from Kibera slums to  Machakos (61 km from Nairobi)! Jody arrived in Nairobi Kenya after a 26 hour journey which started in Dayton, Ohio.  She barely made her connecting flight in Zurich, with only 30 minutes to spare!  All her luggage made it and she breezed through customs. Tammy & Jody after a long day in Kibera slum. American missionary, Tammy and Eva, Kenyan ministry partner and Auntie, met Jody with cab driver Benjamin to welcome her back to Kenya.  All three have been good friends with us through out our years spent in Nairobi, so despite the jetlag, it was a good reunion. Arrival at the apartment had a few unexpected surprises.  The previous guests had left the place rather untidy and so Eva and her sister graciously offered there cleaning services.  They literally scrubbed from ceiling to floor and the place is ready for our girls' to come from their village home for discipleship classes this week. Just

Hello Friends!  Jody is returning to Kenya in November and Christy will be continuing the ministry in Ohio.  Here are Jody's thoughts.... Dear friends, On November 13 th  I will be journeying back to Kenya, Africa. You may be asking, “Why now?” or “Aren’t you afraid?” I’ve received hundreds of these questions over the last two weeks. “Why now?”   It is time to continue the work. I talked to one of our precious African daughters last month.  She told me what she was learning in school and how she was growing in her faith. I have watched her and our other girls grow from struggling orphans to beautiful butterflies ready to spread their wings. My goal is to train them up in such a way that they will have confidence to teach and mentor others. They will become the women of Kenya and future leaders of the ministry. They will teach other women how to live in the joy and freedom of Christ. This trip, it will be summertime in Kenya. I will have more time to spend with t

Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Ephesians 6:10 In soccer, Jody and I tend to cheer for the underdogs and the U.S. was not the favored to win last’s night’s game against Ghana, the team that beat them in the last two World Cups. In the second half the cameras kept focusing on a Ghanaian fan that the announcers assumed was high. But we quickly realized he was a witch doctor in a demonic trance! Suddenly what began for us as a fun sporting match became an acute reminder that we live constantly in a Spiritual battle. The US team kept defending attack after attack and they were growing weary, something that happens with all of us in the Spiritual battle. We too grow weary, we think we are too weak to defend against the Enemy anymore and we feel like giving up. Despite suffering injuries, exhaustion, and dehydration, the U.S. team never gave up, even though their opponents were physically stronger. God really used it to show us how the Enemy often gets us to think that