Update from Kimberly and Bud Huffman in Kenya

Hey everyone,

Its been awhile since we’ve updated.  We’re unable to get onto our blog to update so here’s one…

Please pray for me, I have malaria for the second time in two weeks.  I got it in Nairobi, came to Kitale and got rid of it with medicine then about four days later it shows up again but twice as bad.  I went this morning to the dr. and he gave me different medication that should clear it up in three days.  He thinks it just didn’t go away the first time. 

Here’s some exciting news.  Not sure if you all know about Watoto ministry in Uganda.  They are a huge ministry in the main city of Uganda, Kampala.  They have over 2,000 children in their program and have been around for about 15 years.  They sent some key leaders from their organization last year to meet with us and help mentor us.  They’ve been a key model for us in the Mattaw Children’s Village.  We use the term “why reinvent the wheel” quite often.  Their policies and procedures really helped me out as well.  We basically are doing the same thing as them except they use widows or single moms in a house of 8 children whereas we’re hiring house parents for 8-12 kids in a house.  There is a group from Watoto coming next Friday to interview us and video the progress of the Mattaw Children’s Village!  This is really exciting for us.  They’ll be using this to show at their big conference in September. 

Yesterday we started painting inside the first house.  Almost everything is completed except painting, putting glass in the windows, and moving in furniture.  The first house parents to move in is Isaac and Vivian Rono.  They come from Lemoru where I lived the first year and a half in Kenya.  Isaac was actually one of the cooks at the orphanage i worked in.  We’ve already identified about 6 children that we’ll move in soon.  Also please be praying for a social worker for us.  We were using a social worker from a ministry here in town but was just informed a few days ago that their social worker is completly booked up with work.  Its not the greatest timing to be finding a social worker at this point but we’re trusting God to bring a godly trustworthy person.  There’s a man running a street kid program not far from our project that has really been a great help to us.  I though he put it well with the position of a social worker in saying they’re the “gate  keeper” of the place.  Its so true, they’re the ones we rely on to find the true desperate cases.  You find in a lot of cases, social workers putting in their relatives or picking from a certain tribe. 

There’s a team coming in two weeks.  Most of them are from McAllen but a few from Keller.  We’re excited for them to come.  There will be about 18 total.  They’ll be doing a lot of the ground work out in the village of the children’s home.  They’ll be doing door to door visiting, sunday morning service, family workshops, children vbs, and hopefully the container with the playground will be here.

More to come…

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Kimberly

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