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It is good to back home in Connecticut. Thank you so much Merrideth and John, for taking such good care of our home – and thank you God, that the huge tree that came down during the tropical storm did not hit our bedroom, where Merrideth and John were sleeping. And thank you Starr Landscaping for cutting up that tree – we now have at least a three year supply of firewood.
We enjoyed visiting with our friends, Terry and Ty, at their friends’ beautiful home overlooking the Norwalk
Islands and Long Island Sound. Marilyn is back into jogging again, and she is refreshed three or four times
during the week by these same views and the softly lapping waves. 
At a very special memorial service, we, along with several hundred others, said goodbye to Rev. Ed Danks,
a former pastor of Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien, Ct. He was a co-founder of Tumaini Children’s Home
in Nyeri, Kenya – and at the family's request, a memorial fund has been opened at The Outreach Foundation.
If you would like to remember Ed for his passion for vulnerable children, you may send a gift in his memory to:
The Outreach Foundation
381 Riverside Drive, Suite 110
Franklin, TN 37064
Please earmark the gift as "Ed Danks Memorial for Tumaini Children's Home".
One Saturday morning, at the NPC Mission Team Retreat, we brought everyone up to date on the church’s mission
projects in Kenya – Nambale Magnet School, Bob and Jennifer Chedester at Rift Valley Academy, Caroline King’ori
with Life Ministry at Kenyatta University and Alice Nganga and Margaret Ngure at Presbyterian University of
East Africa. Please see www.norotonchurch.com/mission
to learn about other misssion projects.
That same Saturday, in the afternoon, we met with Sister Mary at St. Mary’s Church in Greenwich. She is a
Co-founder and the Director of Nyumbani Children’s Home in Karen, Nyumbani Village in Kitui and Lea Toto
in Nairobi. She had been to Ireland and Italy - and several cities here in the US to raise funds for medicine
for 2,000 thousand poor children. Please see
www.nyumbani.org.We must join our prayer with work.
How is it possible to change one’s work into a prayer?
Work cannot substitute for prayer.
Nevertheless, we can learn to make work a prayer.
How can we do this?
By doing our work with Jesus and for Jesus.
That is the way to make our work a prayer.
It is possible that we may not be able to keep our attention
fully on God while we work,
but God doesn’t demand that we do.
Yet we can fully desire and intend that our work
be done with Jesus and for Jesus.
This is beautiful and that is what God wants
our will and desire to be for him,
for our families, for our children, for our brethren and for the poor.
~Mother Teresa/Maryknoll
Friends at the Beach
We Will Remember
NPC Mission Team
Sr. Mary at St. Mary Church