The graduation parade today was a first for me in Kenya. I marched in a parade in Kenya today.As I typed that sentence, I heard Meryl Streep’s voice in the opening line from Out of Africa….”I had a farm in Africa…” I have marched in many parades. But none, that can compare to today. Many of you don’t know I was a musician in my previous life. Band was my life from grade schoolthrough college. I went to college as a music performance major. I would guess I have marched in 15or more parades...

Kakamega is the Kenya town where everything began for me. Jeff Moser (The East Africa Project) tells everyone it is my fault that he is here in Kenya. Jeff’s family connected to me and our Kenyan ministry when his daughter joined me on our very first mission team in Kenya. Katie, Jeff’s daughter, is the “poster-child” for why we bring teams to Kenya. She went home a full-fledged ambassador for the work God is doing in East Africa. So much so, that her family have made multiple trips to...

Kakamega is the Kenya town where everything began for me. Jeff Moser (The East Africa Project) tells everyone it is my fault that he is here in Kenya. Jeff’s family connected to me and our Kenyan ministry when his daughter joined me on our very first mission team in Kenya. Katie, Jeff’s daughter, is the “poster-child” for why we bring teams to Kenya. She went home a full-fledged ambassador for the work God is doing in East Africa. So much so, that her family have made multiple trips to...

With Mt. Elgon ministry, getting there is the most fun. O,K. To all of my fellow hymn lovers, I apologize. I couldn’t resist. I hate it when people mess with the perfect lyrics of great hymns, and now I havedone it. I “pirated” the headline from the great old hymn, He Leads Us Along (G.A. Young, 1903). The hymn actually says, Some through the waters, Some through the flood, Some through the fire, but all throughthe blood… The word mud never appears in the lyrics of the hymn. But, I...

Praise the Lord rings out in church in the native language of 7 tribes. How does God top giving the gift of salvation to over 20 souls on a Sunday morning? By calling out new missionaries from within the slum to reach the toughest and fastest growing people group in the town of Kitale. As the invitation closed, the new believers had been prayed over and escorted to meet with pastorsand counselors for immediate follow-up and Bible distribution, Pastor Richard took the podium onelast...

Faith = believing that a thing is, while it is not, so that it can be. I can tell I am finally maturing in my faith walk with God. For so long I only saw him in the big things—people coming to Christ, pastors being trained, buildings being built. Those things still stir my heart. But today, as I hosted some first time American visitors at the Miracle in Mathare, it was the simplicity of a few minutes of “make believe” that felt like God brushed by. All kids love make believe. Wait a...

I warmed by a fire in the Mathare slum today in Kenya.  My body wasn’t cold.  In fact, the low 70 degree temps were a welcome change from the blast furnace called August in Arkansas.  But, my heart did need some warming.  It’s toasty now.  Come join me.  You know you can’t resist a good fire.Two of the four teams have arrived safely in Kenya and joined me for our first day in the field today.As is true so many ministry days in Kenya, today had...

Time to get your knee pads on.  I’m headed back to Kenya! If Delta and Air France do their part, I will push back from the gate in Little Rock today at noon.  25 1/2 hours later, I am scheduled to land in . If you don’t take praying for safe travel seriously, that probably means you don’t travel a lot.  If it can happen during travel, I have probably had it happen to me over the years and miles.  This trip, I need you to pray this way please: On-time flights and...

The journey home begins tonight (African time).Wednesday, March 6, 2024  – Someplace we really can’t afford Karen, Kenya Neither of us knew how desperately we needed this trip. The ministry time together breathed new life into this ministry couple. We were beaten down and beaten up by the past several years of Teresa’s illness and her subsequent inability to join me on the ministry field. We are better together. Always have been. I pray, we always will be.  Since we...

Sunday, March 3, 2024—Tent Church, Kitale Town, KenyaThe time Teresa spent on the injured reserved list sure didn’t show Sunday morning.As she stood in the tent church in Kitale, Kenya to give her testimony, there was not a sound to be heard except the soothing Southern drawl oozing from the pulpit. The story caught our Kenyan crowd off guard. They have never heard Teresa’s testimony. They only know her as “Momma Teresa”—the sainted woman who puts up with “pastor Mike”. As Teresa told of...