Somali Ministry Prayer Update

We want to thank all of you who have been regularly praying for Somali ministry and for our family. Here are a few updates for prayer that we wanted to share with you:

* Eastleigh Community Centre.
Please pray for the remaining 30 children who continue to live at the centre while they await their parents to rebuild. We are so thankful for the PCEA church in Eastleigh who celebrated Easter this past Sunday with these kids.

Please pray for Lucy (name changed) a twenty year old Kenyan woman whom Erica has been helping through the centre. Please pray for Lucy's spiritual, emotional, and physical health as she is facing a pregnancy resulting from a sexual assault which occurred in the election violence. Please pray for the thousands of women like Lucy who have been victims of such assaults over the past few months.

Please pray for a new initiative we are beginning with the ECC to mobilize Somali women within Eastleigh. We will be working with the centre's social workers to draw Somali mothers together into a network of community groups. Together we hope to find ways of over coming poverty and barriers to health and sustainable livelihoods within Somali households. We pray for wisdom and discernment as we journey together in the Somali community.

* Northeastern Province
We are thankful for developments in Dadaab, the three teachers serving there are doing much better. They are all looking forward to the April break in the Kenyan school system, which will give them a month off to return to Nairobi and visit with friends and family. Please pray for the primary school as it seeks improve its administration and to become more financially self sustaining. Pray for more teachers willing to come and serve both in Dadaab and Eastleigh.

Also be in prayer for for an opportunity for our friend Yatanni to serve with a medical clinic in the IFO refugee camp. The ongoing medical needs for Kenyans and especially the refugee populations is very great. Please also be in pray for Yatanni as he prepares for his upcoming wedding, this December. He and his bride are already praying about their future and the possibility of coming to live and serve with us as a couple -- potentially moving into our Dadaab compound.