January 2026 Newsletter Dear Friends,             In 2026, we plan to build on the foundation we have laid in Western Kenya.  It is a fertile field, where teachers are eager to learn how to lead children to Christ and...

December 2025 Newsletter Dear Friends,             As Serving in Jesus’ Name enters its 10th year of ministry, we are amazed at all the Lord has enabled us to accomplish for His Kingdom.  We are grateful to you and the...

November 2025 Newsletter Dear Friends,      November was a busy month for us in Kenya.  We trained new teachers on leading Bible Clubs, held a Christmas Party Club training session, sent teens to Nairobi for continuing Christian Youth in...

October 2025 Newsletter    

September 2025 Newsletter Dear Friends,       The Lord is moving mightily among His people in Kenya, and we rejoice for the abundant fruit from our investment in Mary Kithuure’s CEF ministry. In December, Mary used our Christmas gift...

July/August 2025 Newsletter Dear Friends,        Recently, I heard the testimony of a couple who had returned to the US after serving as missionaries in an African country for 30 years.  Although the indigenous people were steeped in...

June 2025 Newsletter Dear Friends,           “The best laid plans of mice and men”[1] comes to mind as we reflect on our plans to pack the container destined for Kenya in June.  With record-breaking temperatures we...

May 2025 Dear Friends,             We are well into our second batch of 2025 water and latrine projects.  We had decided to limit these projects to the schools and orphanages within our current network, deepening our relationship and opening the...

March/April 2025 Dear Friends,             March was a month of preparation for the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) training.  Mary Kithuure, CEF Kenyan Training Director, traveled to Western Kenya in April with 3 other instructors for 10 days of training.  The...

February 2025 Dear Friends,           In February, we hosted our second Mother and Daughter Missions Event at Mount Vernon Baptist Church.  With the help of sweet Ashley and Josie Ledford, we set up tables with over 200 hundred dolls...

January 2025 Dear Friends,           We are in awe at what the Lord is doing! Serving in Jesus’ Name, which started in 2016 by sending 800 stuffed animals to Kenyan orphans, is having a spiritual impact in a large...

Dear Friends, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 12:1). Immaculate’s faith never faltered while she and her 4-year old daughter waited three weeks in Mombasa for the container to clear...

Dear Friends, The year began with anticipation of the container we packed in November arriving in Mombasa, Kenya, in mid-January. When we received multiple notifications of the ship’s delayed arrival, however, and read news reports of the Houthi terrorists attacking...

Dear Friends, In 2023, God enabled us “to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” Looking back on our first shipment in 2016, which contained 800 stuffed animals sent to six orphanages in Kenya, we are in awe...

Dear Friends, October was a busy month both at home and in Kenya.  As we prepare to ship a container to Kenya, we, as was the Apostle Paul, are so grateful for the grace the Lord is giving us in...

We watch as the new latrines being built at the Ivugui Orphanage in Western Kenya impress us with humility – we are profoundly aware of the unbounded luxury in which we live, and we are grateful for the privilege of...