November 2007 Update


Christmas in November
It’s winter time. We’ve had our first snowfall, and it’s beginning to look like Christmas. Actually, we already celebrated Christmas, in mid-November, when ABC filmed Christmas Eve Service at Noroton Presbyterian Church. The sanctuary was beautifully decorated and the singing was wonderful. We hope that some of you will stay up to see it very late on Christmas Eve. Go to www.interfaithbroadcasting.com and search for "the Angels Sing". Thanksgiving with Daughters and Friends

The leaves were still very colorful for Thanksgiving. We cooked the turkey for our dinner with two of John’s daughters and Kenyan friends who live in New Jersey.


We have a new addition to our family. Marilyn is a great aunt (once again), this time to little Maya Rose.

John attended the Fall ASME Meeting in Seattle where Jen and John, the Mentors he caught up on the latest happenings in the lives of his engineer friends. He also saw Jen, an engineer, who is the prayer partner for a young woman in Tumaini Children’s Home who wants to be an engineer. If you would like to pray for and mentor a student in Kenya, please contact Marilyn – parkerma@juno.com.

Anne and Frank (parents of Pastor Greg at NPC) visited us one Saturday. They spent the last two weeks of August with the children in Tumaini. Frank, who is a teacher of English as a Second Language, helped the secondary students with their study skills, and Anne taught some of the young women how to bake cookies. We’re all hoping that soon there’ll be a Tumaini Bakery.

Pam and George, from Pacific Palisades, spent an afternoon with us. We met them two years ago in Kenya when they visited Tumaini. We thank God for their gift of the borehole, which has provided lots of water for all the children.

Evelyn, Aspiring Journalist Evelyn is one of the young women in Riamukurwe Parish who helped Marilyn to do the photo project with the children in Tumaini. She enjoys photography, and with the small digital camera we got for her last year, she has become the official church youth group photographer. She wants to go to a college in Nairobi to get a certificate in journalism. Please contact Marilyn – parkerma@juno.com – if you would like to help Evelyn with her college fees.

In this Advent time of peace and goodwill, it’s good to remember that “you can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving” (from Amy Carmichael, who lived from 1867 to 1957, and was a missionary in India).