November 2006 Update
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We’ve been back here at home in the US of A for over a month now – but our hearts are still in Kenya. In mid-November, in Nashville, Tennessee, we met with some wonderful mission-minded folks who also care a lot about the children in Tumaini. They are from Pacific Palisades and Burbank Presbyterian Churches in California, from Faith Presbyterian Church in Emmaus in Pennsylvania, from Mountain View Presbyterian Church in Arizona and First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Connecticut. We also got to know better Rob Weingartner and some of the other great people at The Outreach Foundation – one of whom, Ebralie, is a graduate of Daystar University in Kenya. And we met David, a Kenyan, who is with Church of All Nations in Columbia Heights, Minnesota – and we also spent some time with Rev. Ed Danks,co-founder of Tumaini and Rev. Eve Tolley.
And we had our dress rehearsal for this year’s slide presentation -- “Tumaini Children’s Home as Seen by The Children” -- so now we’re ready to take our show on the road.
Before and after our meeting in Nashville, we drove almost 2000 miles thru this beautiful country of ours – thru 10 states – including New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, where we spent a couple of days visiting John’s relatives and seeing the Amish country. Then thru Kentucky and Tennessee, where we saw The Grand Ole Opry’s special Veterans’ Day concert -- and later visited with one of John’s high school classmates and her husband. And then we went on to Virginia where we stayed with our travel companions from John’s President of ASME days, and we toured the new and fabulous George Washington Museum in Mount Vernon.
Thank you God, Our Father, for traveling mercies -- and for our many friends, both new and old. Thank you for everyone and everything you created – and help us to remember that the world and all that is in it is yours.
Tumaini Network
Amish Horse & Buggy
Little Jimmy Dickens
George Washington