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Rain! We’ve had huge rains three out of the past four days! Boy did we need it! It has been so dry! The crops have all been wilty and saggy looking, drying up in the fields. I don’t just mean our crops, I mean next year’s food for the entire country and beyond! That first day when the rain started falling, I just stood watching it out the window, thanking God for his provision. I began thinking about all the people who must be doing the same thing at that exact moment. I realized I was weeping. I just stood there thinking about how life changing those drops of water were and how many lives were being changed at that moment! Then I realized that my joy wasn’t really about our own crops being saved from completely withering in the field. After all, even if we lost every bit of our crops, we would still eat. There are enough of you, on the other side of the world, who would make sure that we and our kids could eat. It might get tough. We might have to cut back on this or that. But, somehow, we would eat. For many others who were, at that exact moment, thanking God for the rain, it really did mean the difference between eating or going hungry. God’s provision for his people! Since that day, we have had two more downpours!

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NEW VIDEO!

Here is a link to the new YouTube video about the In Step Children's Home. This nearly 10 minute video shows the 20 acres, the beginning of the chicken coop, a lumber delivery truck (oxen pulling a truck bed), the process of prepairing for bath time, etc.

Project 57 Video

Here is a link to the YouTube video about Project 57 that Carla talks about in the March 18, 2009 Jambo Newsletter.

New Photo's!

15 "Project 57" photo's were added recently. So check out the In Step Foundation - Land album.

Project 57 pictures

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In Step Children's Home

July 24, 2006
God has decided it’s time to start the children’s home!
But we thought it would be after we built a complex and got all set up and ready. WRONG! God’s ways are not our ways and once again, He’s made it clear what He wants us to do.

Brian (Bafo) and Davin **** Rehema **** Jessica and James **** Grace, Peter, Sharlyn and Brian **** Mark Steven **** Robert **** Dennis **** Manny **** Thomas **** Hope Elizabeth **** Moses **** Elvis **** Jeremiah **** Kelvin **** Cynthia Faith **** Amos **** Daniel **** Teresa **** Isaac **** Margaret **** Samuel **** Peris **** Naomi **** Eliza **** Sarah **** Mercy **** Joy **** Eunice **** Teddy **** Joshua **** Paul **** Moses Abednego **** Meshac **** Winnie **** Shadrach **** Abraham **** Brenda **** Susan **** Levis **** Philip **** Ruth **** Betty **** Ronnie **** Churchill and Mode **** Joseph **** Joyce **** Fred **** Jacqueline **** Jenny **** Jackson and Rebecca "Honey" **** Michelle **** Richard **** Sylvia **** Melissa **** Zacchaeus **** George **** Job **** Edith **** David Maziwa **** Musa **** Francis ****Isaiah **** Melisa & Benson **** Jonathon **** Pat & Van **** Ann

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Spring Protection Projects

Just take a moment to imagine life without clean water. It’s hard for Americans to imagine not being able to just go to the tap and get as much clean, safe water as we want.

Most people here have to walk quite a distance to a water source, usually a natural ground spring. The water naturally bubbles up out of the ground, making a little pond or big mud puddle, depending how you look at it. The “mamas” take their five gallon bucket or jeri can to the puddle, fill them carefully – trying not to stir up the water any more than necessary, heave the full buckets onto their heads and walk back home. All day long mamas come and go, taking dirty water home one bucket at a time. At the same time, herds-boys are bringing cattle or sheep or goats to the same water source for a drink. These animals leave behind a thing or two in or near the water….and here comes another mama to scoop up the water and take it home….yuk!

Ok. Everybody knows that all you have to do to make the water safer to drink is boil it, right? But did you ever think about what it takes to boil the water? Fire. And fire requires firewood, which is not so easy to come by. When the mamas aren’t fetching water, you might find them out searching for firewood. When they’ve gathered enough to cook for the day, they take it home. When it was pointed out to me that it takes just as much wood to boil water as it does to cook supper, I understood why they won’t “waste” the wood. It becomes irrelevant that they should boil the water….most simply won’t.

Why Spring Protection?
How is it done?
Why does the community need to provide some of the supplies?
What is the cost above what the community provides?
Summary for 2005.
Summary for 2006.

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Medical Ministry

What's the story behind the child in this picture?
What is the Medical Ministry?
What can I do to help?
Why money and not supplies?
Summary's for 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

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Kenya Time

July 4 2009 9:09