The New Dormitory

This is the beginning,.....the seed of faith sown by the pastor and his wife

into the new dormitory that God spoke to him to begin for the next 

phase of this orphanage.

God is moving on this and bringing other seed and support to build upon this heart that He has given him. These children are God's heart. He sees that there are many more that need help, that need love, that need you and I to be His "Bridge of Love" that brings them in and showers them with His love for a bright future, that pave a way for them to know who they are in Christ and in the Kingdom, and to provide the resources and means to give them the stepping stones into that future. It is a great work of God's heart and it takes support and involvement of His people.

These are 1200 bricks of the 2000 needed for the beginning of the foundation that were able to be purchased with another seed sown. As we sow and pray we see things grow. We sow and water, but it's God that causes the increase. THIS is good ground to sow your seed. 

Here are the list of supplies needed for the new foundation that the Lord spoke to the Pastor to begin. He believes as the foundation is laid that God will bring others to supply and complete the dormitory. Join with us in faith to be a part of what God is doing in these orphans lives.

The total amount needed for the foundation is $700.
1. 2000 bricks plus transportation=$300
2. 25 bags of cement=$200
3. Labor =$200
(the bricks are for elevation on the foundation)

Watch this blog as we post the progression of God's work here.

Bless you!

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 UPDATE: God Provided! and on February 9th the new construction of the dormitory began! God's work is moving forward as we move with Him, and it has created excitement in the children for this new construction as it will allow other orphaned children to come into God's arms of LOVE. Thank you for your support!

 

As you can see the land which the dormitory is being built on is sloped so the foundation is elevated and built higher on the down slope to level it with the upper side of the slope. Inside the foundation walls is filled with dirt and concrete. We are waiting upon the Lord for $200 more to complete the additional supplies needed.

After the foundation is complete the next phase will be the construction of the walls.

Supplies and fees needed are:

1. One lorry of sand = $376

2. 4000 bricks = $500

3. 2 lorries of ballast - $352

4. 40 bags of cement - $376

5. Labor - $400

TOTAL: $2004

From here we will focus on putting on the roof.

UPDATE: 4-3-15 God provided! The one lorry of sand was purchased earlier in the month, and the remaining bricks were purchased with the $516 of funds raised through a garage sale at our house for the new dormitory. It was a great corporate time of support and fellowship with many of our church family in raising this money at the garage sell. And now we are trusting God to multiply these monies and supply all the needed funds for this work. The Pastor has been moved to sacrifice this month's paycheck to help meet half the cost of one lorry of ballast. May God bless and multiply these seeds and continue to provide for this kingdom work. He uses you and I to do this. Please consider making a donation towards this effort. Blessings!

Remaining needs for this phase of the construction is:

1. 1.5 lorries of ballast -  $264

2. 40 bags of cement - $376

3. Labor - $400

TOTAL: $1040

UPDATE: June 5th

God has continued to bless miraculously so we can move forward on this building project of the new dormitory. We have found favor with the builder and supplier to pay the remaining $756 in labor and supplies out at $140/week as he moves on with the construction. The rains there in Kisii have threatened to weaken the established foundation, so it has been important for us to move forward as soon as possible to get the walls up. It's an honor and a privilege to be a part of and to sow into this kingdom work. The poor, the orphan, and the fatherless are on God's heart, and Jesus said, "Whatsoever you do to the least of My brothers you do to Me." When we help these children have a home, protection, covering, food, and education we are doing this to Jesus. We are His hands, His arms, His feet, His mouthpiece. We are His bridge of love to these children.
Please consider being apart, and sowing into this kingdom work to help more children feel His love and have a home.

 June 8th - Walls going up!

 Construction of the walls on the new dormitory

June 12th - More sand!

 Load of sand being unloaded for further construction of new dormitory

August 29th - the completion of the walls of the new dormitory.

The children are happy and proud of this new dormitory that will

house them along with an additional 34 orphans.



God is able to make all grace abound to us

that always having sufficiency in everything, that we would

have an abundance for every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:8

You can make a donation or love gift at:

gofund.me/KisiiOrphanage 

Victory! Fees, Tables & Chairs!

                                                          God is SO GOOD!
                                       He is a FAITHFUL FATHER and PROVIDER!

We rejoice in His provisions for these children and orphanage. Through prayer and the generosity of His Body, God provided the remainder of the school fees needed for this 3 month term AND enough to purchase the tables and chairs that the children had been desiring and praying for. They are thrilled and SO happy to be able to sit and eat now and to use these tables and chairs for their studies as well. This is such a tremendous encouragement and expression of love to them. It may be small things to many of us, but it is grand and large to them. We bless God for this blessing!

The Lord continues to bring children to the orphanage that need help and that have lost parents and hope. Just the other day an elder of the church found a young boy named Samuel crying by the river ready to commit suicide as he had lost his parents, his uncle that he was living with had lost his job and couldn't even provide for his own family so he was unable to go to school anymore, and life was overwhelming for him. This elder brought him to the orphanage and the Lord blessed him with food, some clothes, a place to live and the provision to re-enter school. His life was turned around by God's love that day.

NEWEST NEED:
God has now spoken to the Pastor to begin by faith the construction of another dormitory for other children to come. He believes as they lay the foundation for the dormitory that God will bless it and bring more help. Pst Isaac is giving the plot of land along with one lorry of sand and ballast toward this effort, and as we sow our seed into this as well we are all believing God for the full amount needed to begin this foundation very soon. The total amount needed for the foundation is $700.
1. 2000 bricks plus transportation=$300
2. 25 bags of cement=$200
3. Labour =$200
(the bricks are for elevation on the foundation)

We ask you to pray about sowing into this Kingdom work as God is working with us and moving mightily on these children's behalf.

God is able to make all grace abound to us

that always having sufficiency in all things, that we would have

an abundance for every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:8

You can make a donation or love gift to:

gofund.me/KisiiOrphanage

Samuel - God's Bridge of Transition

                                  "And the boy Samuel grew in stature, and in favor 

                                                both with the Lord and with men."
                                                                   1 Samuel 2:26

This is Samuel......He is a young humble 15 yr old boy that was brought to this Kisii orphanage yesterday by an elder of the church who found him by the river crying and wanting to commit suicide as he had lost both his parents to illness and had been living with his uncle who had been providing for his needs and caring for him. Samuel's uncle had ultimately lost his job and was unable to afford food for even his children and immediate family. Samuel in despair had not been attending school as he did't have the funds and resources for the fees, books and uniforms, and he was in deep depression and hopelessness when the elder found him crying and brought him to the orphanage. The love of Samuel's heavenly Father saw His young son and sent a man, a bridge of His love, a man filled with the love and Spirit of Jesus, to reach out to him and save him from the clutches of the enemy of depresssion, hopelessness and despair. Bringing Samuel to the orphanage the Pastor and his wife and the love in this orphanage is restoring him to new life and hope again. Samuel has been fed, received new clothes, has been given a home to sleep and live in, and a family to love him, and now he will be able to return to school again and look at his bright future through the eyes and heart of His heavenly Father. Samuel's story is similar to many of these orphan children.
Their lives are being turned around by God's LOVE.

                                                    










                Samuel enjoying studies in his new
                    home and with his new family.




      The Pastor & Samuel

This Kisii orphanage is a kingdom orphanage, filled with redeeming love and hope and purpose that brings these children that have lost their parents, their love and security, and any hope for provision or care back into a bright future. This orphanage IS a bridge of LOVE into these children's lives to restore and redeem them back into the loving care and security of their Father's arms.

In the Bible there were direct similarities between the young boy, Samuel, and Jesus. Both were children of promise. Both were dedicated to God before birth. Both were bridges of transition from one stage in the nation's history to another. I believe this young boy Samuel that was brought to this orphanage yesterday represents this "bridge of transition" between his family, his nation, but also a generation of young orphaned children that are lost and hopeless and are being bridged back into their Kingdom future and purpose with their heavenly Father. This is a Kingdom hour, and we need to see through Kingdom eyes into the lives that God brings into our paths. God's Kingdom is coming into this earth through us, His Body. Let's BE His hands, His feet, His arms, AND His Bridge of Love.

You may make a donation or love gift at:

 gofund.me/KisiiOrphanage

Esther and a Generation of Young People

"Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom 
for such a time as this?
Ester 4:14

This is Esther. She is beautiful. She is humble. She is an orphan......and God has brought her to this Kisii kingdom orphanage for such a time as this. Her mom, who was single, died from an illness. Her aged grandmother could no longer care for her, and so she was brought here to the orphanage to get help and to get care.

There are many, many children all over the world just like Esther that have no mother or father, who have lost their parents to AIDS or to some other devastating disease or circumstance. They need our help. Esther represents a generation of young people that are without mothers and fathers, that are without the love and guidance that they need to be nurtured and loved. She represents a generation of orphaned children that need to know, feel and experience the love of God, that need our prayers and our love. These children, like Esther, are a generation that God is gathering under His wings to shelter, care for, protect and raise up. HE is their Father. He has not forsaken them. He has chosen them, and is raising them up to be mighty men and women of God, to be children of the King, to know who they are IN Christ and to change the world. "Love never fails." It's God's love shown and given to them that will fuel their lives to be what He has called them to be.

Love is expressed through each one of us in varied ways. How can He express HIS love to them through YOU?  God has brought this post into your path to ask you this very question. He is challenging you/us in this New Year to be an extension of His hand and heart of LOVE. Won't you answer the call and take the challenge? Esther needs you.....Esther needs us.....Esther needs Jesus manifesting Himself through us. These CHILDREN need US. It's an hour to give of ourselves and make a difference in these children's lives, to show them that God loves them, that they are important, and that they have a future. Let's step out in faith into something NEW this year, and invest our lives in others....in the lives of these children that God deeply loves and has brought together in this hour under His wings of love in this Kisii orphanage. Pray for them. Support them through your love gifts and donations. You are blessed to be a blessing.
Please see the list of needs in the right panel that you might be able to help by a small donation.

God richly bless you and yours as you hear His heart and as you move and obey His leading.

"It's more blessed to give than to receive."
Acts 20:35

Christmas Eve Blessing

These children are full of gratitude for our love and support. We receive a blessing from these children and this Pastor and his family as my 6 yr old grandson, David, enjoyed a Christmas Eve skype visit with them over the computer. The children sang us a song with the words, "We will never be the same" and then sang another song in their native language, and then my grandson and I blessed them with the song, "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." The children lifted up their treat of their Coca Cola bottles from their Christmas meal and waved the clothes in the air that they had been blessed with through the purchases from many of your gifts. God has a way of connecting and networking our hearts together around the world through this computer. God is doing a NEW THING.

Our New Journey

The Lord connected us to this Pastor and this orphanage in Kisii, Kenya in October 2014, using my husband and I to be a bridge of God's love into these children's lives.

By His grace God first used my spiritual blog writings connected to His Word and heart to pour into them spiritually, and then began stretching my husband and I into a new place of giving and support financially for these children to see their needs met in a more physical way. He was making us an extension of His heart and hands.  By God's grace He's used us one month to supply the orphanage with food, and then later to supply them with new mattress to replace old ones that were thorny and thin and make their sleep more comfortable.  We've been able to supply them with mosquito nets to cover their beds and blankets to keep them warm and protected from the elements as the seasons bring these changes.  My prayers through all this were that they would feel God's LOVE, His protection and provision as they grow in their understanding of their identity as children of the King, and that they would experience His presence in their dwelling and abiding in the secret place of the Most High as spoken of in Psalms 91.

The children are excited and happy for the way God is changing their lives through His love and support.  They are truly feeling and seeing His love poured out upon them through this ministry of giving as it is connected to the hand and heart of God. Through the "Go Fund Me" account that the Lord led me to set up He is using the Body of Christ to reach out with their hands and hearts to help in this ministry support as well, and for this I praise God. We ARE His Body, and He receives all the Glory!

This is indeed a calling from God to serve these children. This orphanage has been established for two years and supported by the tithes and offerings of a small congregation of believers in the Kisii church along with other "well wishers".  So as the Lord has brought us alongside to pour into their lives, I ask you to pray about this to see if the Lord would so lead you to donate and support these children and this orphanage as well in a small or large way to help get them education, food, clothing as well as other basic needs that will arise. In doing so I know you will be eternally blessed as they are provided for by your heart of giving.  You can't out give God.  He continues to give back to you in ways that money can't buy.

Also I have found in this new leg of our journey for God's Word to be true, that "Where your treasure is there your heart will be also." (Matt 6:21), for as I sent our first seed of blessing it connected me to these children in a deeper and richer way. My heart truly followed the seed and was enlarged in my love towards them. God is doing a work of LOVE in me/us in many ways, through stretching us in our giving, in enlarging our hearts, and in connecting us to His heart of "helping the weak and the fatherless." (Ps 82:3-4)

I see this as a Kingdom orphanage full of kingdom children that He is raising up and that He has asked us AND you to be a part of.  May God richly bless you as you respond to His call. (Please share with your friends and family.)

                                 "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; 
                                    maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
                                                 Rescue the weak and needy; 
                                      deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
                                                                 (Ps 82:3-4)

                                  "How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
                                    the Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.
                                                                  (Ps 41;1)

The Pastor and the 14 children. Children of the King!

          They were excited about 

        getting netting over 

                   their beds.            

"He who dwells in the secret place 

of the Most High shall abide 

under the shadow of the 

Almighty."

Psalm 91

God will use these shoes to take 

them on their path of 

righteousness with Him.

Smiles on their faces from

getting their new shoes.

Every step that the sole of their

feet shall go He has given

it to them.

Joshua 1:3

The children dancing in

worship in their Kisii church service.

Beautiful young ladies