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THINGS ARE FINALLY FALL INTO PLACE

Wednesday, May 1   KENYAN LABOR DAY - public holiday We had the meeting for people interested in working as volunteers with the pregnancy crises center today. It was a good turn out for a public holiday and we have some very key people that came and we are looking forward to getting the trainings going.  Good turn out and very engaging discussion on how to approach the prevention issues and other things. Got a chance to look through Jane Jalani's paperwork and talk with here about how to structure the paperwork for this venture and that went very well.  I forgot to mention on Sunday, we got a chance to meet someone that has the same vision of building a pregnancy crises center in Bamburi, an area just outside Mombasa.  It is in the same county as Mombasa. She already has a start of a building. She has the first floor just about finished and we would like to add two more floors. She also has a preschool started on the property though it meets under a tin roof that has a lot of holes
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Kenya, Adoption, Carrie and You: Hospitals are so sad Pray for cooperation from ...

Kenya, Adoption, Carrie and You: Hospitals are so sad Pray for cooperation from ... : Tuesday, april 30, 2013 Today was exhausting but when we look back, we did not do a whole lot.  We started off going into the public hos...
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Hospitals are so sad Pray for cooperation from US EMbassy on Visa information

Tuesday, april 30, 2013 Today was exhausting but when we look back, we did not do a whole lot.  We started off going into the public hospital here in Mombasa, Coast General.  I hate hospitals even at home so this was outside my comfort zone totally. Judy was kind enough to get us into the Children's Ward and the Children's Cancer ward. She works with an organization called PACK that goes into the community to find kids that need the cancer treatments they focus on and brings them to the hospitals and pays for all the drugs.  The parents only need to pay for the bed in the hospitals and they work with them to try to reduce the rate for that. There was one little boy in there and he had a tumor in his right checks so bad that his eye was turned inside and you could only see white. It was 10X the size of the other check when he started treatment and he was through a few weeks of treatment already and it was reduced to maybe 4X the other check now. The ward beds were very dirty
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FINALLY SOME SUCCESS AND MORE BABIES!

Saturday, April 27, 2013 It is the day of the run/walk.  If I was nervous in the US you can imagine how nervous I was here, not have any control over the situation really except for motivation. Our ride was late which was not a great start. I was nervous already and Rashid had a punctured tire so he was late. That makes me anxious. When we arrived all of the tables were ready at the correct positions so that was good and then we each just took a table and started setting it up. It went off without a hitch at all.  A little disagreement about exact time to start, but it worked out very well. The Deputy Governor of Mombasa Hazel Catana was present to cut the ribbon at the start line. She was pulled away on other official business (the president of Somalia came into town that morning), but she arrived to at least do the cutting and wish us well. She was a very welcomed guest of honor and she showed up on time. We had about 40-50 running and lots more that donated to the Pregnancy C
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Kenya, Adoption, Carrie and You: HOPE FOR BOMANI!!!!

Kenya, Adoption, Carrie and You: HOPE FOR BOMANI!!!! : Friday, April 26, 2013 WANTED-ANY BIBLE STUDY WORKBOOKS, especially the kind that are titled with just the name of a book of the bible.  ...
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HOPE FOR BOMANI!!!!

Friday, April 26, 2013 WANTED-ANY BIBLE STUDY WORKBOOKS, especially the kind that are titled with just the name of a book of the bible.  Tthose are the most relatable from western to african culture.  I would love to bring those to the ladies in June to continue their bible studies.  Watch Goodwills they will only be .89 cents for a book like that.  Thanks from the woman bible studies here ------------------------------ We had a later start for the morning with a few errands to run.  It feels like we go to the grocery store 2 or 3 times a day!!   Today we needed items for the run walk and we are on a mission to find a ribbon for the Deputy Governor of Mombasa to cut to start the race. We hit a few stores and could not find anything. We headed to the Shanzu place to finish paying for my bags and tablet/bible covers so we could sell them at the event on Saturday.  We also dropped some flyers off by Allan for the run/walk. Then we picked up Rose and Joy and headed out to Barani.  
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TIME AT THE BOYS HOMES - ALWAYS ONE OF OUR FAVORITES

Thursday, April 25, 2013 - Reconnecting First went to visit with Tami and Patrick and their baby orphanage. WE had been texting back and forth for a day. We showed up at their place and where told by the guide that they moved. And they moved down by Peter and Selpher (way down in lots of traffic)  We will have to reschedule that one. Then we headed to Wanna Wa Mola. Wanna Wa Mola is a boys home.  A place where they find boys on the street and bring them.  Teach them about God and they all love music. They had a few boys that just came in the day before.  We had such a great time making paper plate tambourines with them. We gave them cazoos and then we talked with them about how God loves them and he loves knows each of their names. We gave them each a cross necklace and we wrote their names on it.  The boys were so patient and were so well behaved. It was such a good time. Car troubles.   Then we were about the leave and the car wouldn't start.  That was the second time that h
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