Report from Asia III - David & Amy J

We met some people from the family [fellow Christians] here.  This brother and sister are so incredible.  They have writings from our book [Bible verses] right on their business sign and they often talk to people about our home [witness] from their store and even give out good books [Bibles] to customers.  We gave them some good news DVD’s so they can give those as gifts too.  They are so wonderful and the light of our adopted brother shines so brightly from them.  Sister, however, has pretty bad diabetes so we ask everyone to please remember her.  I call her auntie.

There is much darkness here, and many things and people to remember [pray for], but we have had 22 people so far that we know of who have been adopted into our family.  Father is definitely working here and we are so happy to be a part of it.  Tonight I got to be a part of our newest brother joining the family.  Please remember Andrew for us as well.  This was one of the most powerful experiences of my life with Andrew and I am thankful father let me be a part of it.

We also met a homeless lady and her child here that really touched our heart.  She was begging at tables in the night market for scraps of food for her and her 3 year old child.  We fed them but her story was so sad.  We asked her name and she said she was too poor and had no name (not unusual for older women from here who come from poor families).  So we asked her what her parents called her and my heart nearly broke in two when she told us her parents called her “a-ben” which means “stupid”.  She did have trouble comprehending and could not even grasp the things we told her about father.  It was doubly crushing to only be able to meet her physical needs but not be able to do anything about any other needs.  Her daughter’s name is Star.  I don’t want to refer to her by what her parents called her so I will call her Precious.  Her daughter’s name is Star.  Please remember Precious and Star and ask father to make a way to reach her with good news.

That is all for now.  This is probably my last note as email access is difficult to arrange and we will be returning on the 12th so please remember us and our travels and we look forward to seeing the whole family again soon.

Love,

David and Amy

Update from the Huffmans & Mattaw Children’s Village

RECEIVED January 02, 2009 3:39 AM

We still continue to have our home felloship on Sundays which is still about 15 adults and anywhere from 20-30 children.  This month we had a visitor from San Angelo, Jim Farmer.  He went all around Kenya but did house to house ministry with our house dad Isaac.  They reached many people during this time.  Maybe around 25-30.  There was a lot of restoration and salvations.

Also our house dad and mom continue to reach out into the surrounding village and minister to people.  A lot of drunk people are coming to the Lord.  There was a mother that died a few weeks ago and we were able to go and rescue her baby.  There were also three other children that we’ll take into house #2 when it opens.  Our social worker is going into the village and finding the most desperate cases for house #2 now.

we now have a borehole!  praise the Lord!  we also finished house #2 and a strip of bathrooms.  we’ve had a lot of car problems this month and are now looking to trade it in for a newer one.  our next fund raising for the project will be for a school house.  now that we’ll be adding more children, our two school huts that are one room, wont be enough.  But God is so faithful to bring the funding as we need it!

what were our major acomplishments this month?  getting our borehole dug.  having christmas with our children.  getting house two finished.  getting house #1 finishing touches with construction finished.  many salvations in our area.

our vehicle had a lot of problems.  i cant say the exact problem because I dont remember the language.  Bud was talking about it but something about having to weld a hole back in the block on the engine.

we are now in Texas and will return the end of February.  We will have a team lead by the Dempsey’s during the first week of March.  We hope to welcome children into house #2 with them. 

please pray for the project to run well while we are away.  a lot of our children and house mom has malaria.  many of them keep getting so pray that would stop!  also for our time here in Texas.  We have a lot of places to visit so we ask that the Lord would make it a restful time and a good time of reuniting with our supporters.

thanks so much fbc keller family!  we are so greatful for your support and prayers!

the huffmans (http://huffmansinkenya.blogspot.com/)

Report from Asia II - David & Amy J

UPDATE RECEIVED Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:47 AM

Anyway of the folks we told you about earlier, Lily is doing fine, Mr. John we hope to talk to again tonight, and the other gentleman is getting plugged in to a local club.

We have met several other people as well.  There are four people I would like you all to please remember for us.  They are all motorcycle cabbies which is a very dangerous job here.  They all welcomed us to drink tea with them and we made friends quickly.  We did get to share about our home and tell them all about Father [shared the plan of salvation].  They had never heard much about him before.  The leader, Fonzie, is a very smart man, but when we told him about our father’s rules, he seemed to understand that this was impossible to obey.  Another friend there was very eager to hear about our home and our father.  His name is Pumpkin.  He has been trying to have a child for a while so we all told him we would tell father about his situation.

The other two are Dow, he wasn’t very interested but he took a movie we gave him to watch about the whole of history to help him understand [this is probably the Jesus Film].  The last one, Greg, was very very friendly and listened intently to what we had to say.  He said he would like to come to our home and really wanted to talk to our father, but was not sure he could in the tea shop.  We told him he could go home and talk to our father whenever he was ready.  We gave him something that talked about the road to Rome and directions how to reach father if he wanted to talk to him and join the family [a salvation tract using the Roman Road].  We will follow up with these guys soon and hopefully can meet them for tea again and answer any questions they have.

I would ask you and all our friends at home to please diligently remember our four friends, Fonzie, Pumpkin, Dow and Greg.

Also we went yesterday to a big temple here and got to tell several of the monks about our home and our father.  Not sure they were truly interested but we met and shared with the oldest, most venerable monk there, who was 97 years old.  He climbed the 108 steps up to the temple to reach us and shared his secrets for long life and we shared with him the secrets to true life.  We will call him Grandfather.  Please also have everyone remember Grandfather and that the things we shared with him will have a hope to reach him.  We also shared with two guides who took us around and they were more receptive.  We left them with movies and information and hopefully they also will reach these young folks.

I will try to get another message out in a few days as opportunity is available but please do continue to think of us and remember the new friends we have told you about as well.  It is the deepest desire of our hearts that these new friends might one day come to our home and visit father.  Amy has already had the opportunity to talk to someone who is now adopted into the family [accepted Christ].  It was a precious moment for her and I am so pround of how well she is doing here.  They have split us up and Amy is translating for others with us and she had that great opportunity.

We miss you all and hope to see you very soon.

Love,

David and Amy

Report from Asia I - David & Amy J