Happy New Year!!

Many greetings for a very Happy New Year from us all at IcFEM Kimilili.

We had good services on Christmas Day and a family meal in the evening.

We do thank God that Christmas is Christ-centred and that commercialism hasn't yet hit this part of rural Kenya! We do not exchange gifts, but celebrate the Gift to the world, Jesus.

New Year's Day is also celebrated with Church Services.

We are looking forward to what God has in store for us in 2009 and wish all our many friends a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.

At last!! An ATM in Kimilili!!

No photo for this one, but just to let all our visitors know that we now have an ATM (otherwise known as a hole in the wall) at Kenya Commercial Bank in Kimilili. I have used it for a local cash withdrawal, but as yet we haven't succeeded for international, but I'm sure that will come soon and save visitors the trip to Bungoma, Webuye or elsewhere. It started to work on Friday 19th December.

Naitiri Local Transformation Unit leads the way!

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The Local Unit has just launched their very own project - the Naitiri Vulnerable Child Support Project. The Fellowship members have contributed and have raised a good sum of money to help vulnerable and needy children in their midst. The Project was launched yesterday at a colourful meeting, attended by the local Councillor, the Mission Director, two Deputy Directors and other IcFEM HQ staff. You can see part of the crowd in the photos. We reckon there were around 250 people there. The meeting was held in a local Church at Mukuyuni.

We do thank God for this wonderful initiative from the Local Unit members.

Books for Local Transformation Unit Libraries.

We are very grateful to Sovereign World Trust for supplying excellent new books for our Mission library and for Local Transformation Unit Libraries. Boxes of books for LTU libraries have arrived very recently and have been greeted with great excitement. The photos show them being opened and recorded in my Office, with staff very anxious to read before the books go out to the Community next year.

Local Transformation Unit Leaders' Meeting on Monday 15th Dec.

The leaders arrived early - many before 8am - and had so much to share. The meeting was wonderfully lively, with many good testimonies, as the way forward for next year was plotted. There are ten LTUs and more planned for next year as God opens doors.

Ann is back home!!

Hello friends!

I am safely back home, but arrived to find big problems connection to the Internet from here. It has been very unstable.

On Monday we had an amazing meeting with leaders from all ten local transformation units. I hope I can post some testimonies from that meeting very soon - and maybe a photo as well.

We are also very happy to see a number of our Mission staff getting married. This December is the month for so many weddings! On 6th, I was still away, so missed witnessing Mary and Anthony, two of our staff, tying the knot. Last Saturday was the turn of our Deputy from Dreamland Education Centre. Next Saturday it will be our Clinical Officer, Sarah, who becomes Mrs!