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February Fun

Ava, Emma and Tristan at our new favourite spot in Nairobi

PLANET YOGURT

2012 has already been a challenging year within many of our ministry projects, but we have also enjoyed some great time with our kids and new team mates, the Morgans. Here are just few fun photos from the past month.

Ava ready to ride the little cars at Village Market

Emma showing her new bike to Ava

Tristan on the move

Advent 2011

ADVENT MEMORIES

Some photos from our Advent 2011

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Christmas Concerts

Emma as the Bethlehem Star

Mommy, Emma and Daddy

at the Rosslyn Elementary Christmas Concert

The Bethlehem Stars!

Daddy with Ava at her Christmas Concert

Ava's Christmas Concert

Erica and Tristan on the night of his Choir Concert

Tristan singing in the Middle School choir,

during the Rosslyn Academy Christmas Evening

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S !!!

Labels: advent, Christmas, Family, Kenya

Joys! And Prayer Requests

Ava and Emmanuel

November has been a tumultuous month in Kenya on many fronts, but we are so thankful for the wonderful blessing of friends. One of the surprise blessings in our life is little Emmanuel, who our friend Judy and her daughter Carol have welcomed into their family. Since Judy and Carol live in our home, Ava is convinced that she has finally become a "big sister". After school, she loves to rush off the school bus and look for "Man-well".

In Prayer:

* Please remember our friends in Garissa, who are struggling with fear and forgiveness after last Sunday's grenade attack on a Pentecostal Church that killed two people and injured three others. This is a very tense time in Garissa and throughout Kenya.

* Please pray for our friends in Eastleigh where tension is rising. Pray for safety of the Iftin ladies and the entire community as Kenyan authorities carry out sweeps in their attempt to find members of the Al Shabbab group.

Labels: Ava, Emmanuel, Kenya

Famine Relief

Somali Refugees in the the village of Dhobley, Somalia

The Drought in East Africa is affected over 12,000,000 people but nowhere is the effects more visible than in the refugee camps of Dadaab near the Kenya/Somalia border where now close to half a million Somali Refugees have come for help. In the past two weeks, Erica and I have been travelling to Dadaab with our friend Amanda Lindhout to help her Global Enrichment Foundation and several other small NGOs to get food across the border and into Somalia.

You can read more about the first convoy and our experiences in our new blog at www.fivekennys.blogspot.com . Please continue to pray for the people of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya who are suffering from the famine. Pray especially for small children under the age of 5 who are the most vulnerable. We are hearing that in excess of 29,000 children have died from this famine in the past three months.

We appreciate all of the prayers and letters of encouragement!

To learn more of what Canadian Baptists are doing in Kenya and to donate toward the Famine Relief Efforts, please visit the Canadian Baptist Ministries website at www.cbmin.org

Labels: Amanda Lindhout, Canadian Baptist Ministries, Dadaab, Famine Relief, Global Enrichment Foundation, Kenya, Prayer Requests, Somali Ministry, Somalia

Spring 2011 Adventures in Africa

Spring in Eastleigh

The past few months have been a whirl winds as we've served in Rwanda and Kenya with Guardians of Hope, Eastleigh with the Iftin Women's Empowerment Program, and took part in an international conference on Muslim-Christian relations in Africa, held in Lebanon. We've been blogging on our new site at www.fivekennys.blogspot.com but thought it would be fun to post a few photos here. To read more please check out the fivekennys blog!