Bancy Hospital Bill is clearly on our shoulders (Nov. 4, 2006)
	Christen Endures Three Days in the Hospital (Nov. 1,, 2006)
	Our Old Faithful gets a New Engine (Oct. 17, 2006)
	Up and Running again... Complete with Updates (Oct. 3, 2006)
	US Team of 22 people: Ten days of fun, sweat and tears of joy (Aug. 19, 2005)
	Vehicle Update: God is good in the middle of challenges (Aug. 19, 2005)
	US Team of 22 visits us from 6 th – 16 th August (Aug 1, 2005)
	Vehicle Challenges (Aug. 1, 2005)
	The search for house parents continues (Aug. 1, 2005)
	Registering as a "Company" (July 13th, 2005)
	III Phase Meters installed (July 8th, 2005)
	Our Bus is up and running (July 13th 2005)

Bancy Hospital Bill is clearly on our shoulders (Nov. 4, 2006)

Bancy now - Healed and happy at Kings Kids Village

The Bancy story is turning out to be a real Kings Kids Village saga. It could well be a defining moment in our development as a Christian children's home. In short, the Lord gave me the privilege of saving someone's life in May of this year. Bancy had been beaten, raped and left for dead by five men. I (together with police) rushed her to the best hospital in Nairobi and put her under the care of our family doctor. She has fully recovered after nearly two weeks in ICU and almost a month in hospital. The children's home she worked for was in dire need financially and ended up shutting down. We now have the five children from that home and Bancy now works as one of our aunti's at Kings Kids Village. The hospital bill is nearly $22, 000 including the private doctors bills. It was originally due to be paid by December 15th of 2006. Yesterday we made a new arrangement with Aga Khan Hosptal to pay just under $10,000 of the hospital part of the bill by July 3, 2007 (They have waived nearly $2,000 of the $12,000 as their contribution to the cause) Then they have broken with their normal policy and are allowing us to settle with the doctors individually. So we are starting the Bancy Recovery Fund, which will receive money for three things... 1. The $10,000 Aga Khan bill. 2. The close to $10,000 in private doctor bills 3. We are considering hiring the services of a lawyer ($400) to put the purpetrators behind bars and out of harm for good. See the Bancy page for more details...

Christen Endures Three Days in the Hospital (Nov. 1,, 2006)

It all started with a bad cut on her left arm when she accidentally tripped and put her arm through a glass door. We saw the hand of the Lord from the first moment, as the glass cut deep, but missed all nerves and all major blood vessels in her arm. But, someone slipped up somewhere and the arm ended up infected. Finally, last week we got her a letter of reference from the children's hospital where we had been treating her to our family doctor, who immediately admitted her to a major hospital. After 30 hours of strong IV administered anti-biotics, she went into surgery and got the wound properly taken care of. She came home last thursday and has been the princess around here ever since. Thank God for His care over our kids...

Our Old Faithful gets a New Engine (Oct. 17, 2006)

Our old 1989 model van finally blew its engine after 275,000 Km (165,000 Miles). We had the choice of selling it for next to nothing, rebuilding its gasoline engine for about $1,200 and third, switching it for a slightly used Diesel engine... We chose the latter option and we are up and running in style... We now are now paying less per gallon and getting better fuel efficiency; a big deal in Kenya where diesel is only $4.00 a gallon and gasoline is about $4.20 a gallon. God is faithful in all of this and has already provided the money for the switch...

Up and Running again... Complete with Updates (Oct. 3, 2006)

Halelujah!!! We are finally up and running and I am also learning to update the website. From now on, if there is any break in communication, I will be totally responsible myself... Of course, there are always a few other things I could blame my negligence on, but we won't go into those unforseen factors right now... If, for any reason, you need to know more than what I update on this site, you can also check out our new blog at news-from-nairobi.blogspot.com.

US Team of 22 people:
Ten days of fun, sweat and tears of joy (Aug. 19, 2005)

How do you take care of 22 people and cater for their needs as you get them from meeting to meeting and keep them all happy at the same time... Well, it was much easier than we had thought it might be. The team from Spenserport Assembly in a suberb of Rochester, NY was well prepared and ready to tough out conditions much harder than we threw at them. We housed them in our upper Faith House apartments and they fit in like they belonged. In the 7 days they ministered with us, we did 5 mornings of Vactation Bible School to over 300 kids from Huruma. Three afternoons, we visited a different orphanage where we played, sang and loved on kids. We also joined a team from Huruma Church to paint our meeting hall. The teens on the team also got to participate in a teens outreach extravaganza called X-Treme weekend with our main church's youth.  Before they came, I had my doubts as to whether we could handle a team of that size, and now I know we can. Although I would still rather have a smaller team, groups of all sizes are welcome to come minister along side of us...

Vehicle Update:
God is good in the middle of challenges (Aug. 19, 2005)

We have continued to have challenges in the area of transport around here. Last time we told you about the accident that left our older van in the shop for up to three weeks. Well, the mechanic did his best and were able to get that back to us early so we could use it for the time of our 22 person team. We have use it and it has been a God send. Dad and Mom's van had developed engine problems as well and we thought we had that taken care of. The day the team arrived, they had an accident with that van, which has kept it in the shop the whole time the team was here. Our bus was a great help transporting the team around, but even that was a challenge, due to a major water leak somewhere in the radiator or engine. We had to carry around a 2 gallon jerry can of water with us and fill the radiator everytime we started the bus. Once I forgot to do it and made a silly blunder of not vacating the bus before checking the radiator. The result was bad. Hot water spewed out of the radiator and burned at least three of the team members. Thank God, they were not serious burns and we had no repeats of that again. So, now we should get my dad's van back tomorrow and then will be able to put my old van in to finish its body work. Then the bus will get its water problem fixed. The one vehicle that has been there for us throughout this time has been our new van, which was provided by many of our supporters through the efforts of my brother, ,Phil, last year... Thanks Phil and Thanks to God, who knows exactly what we need and when we need it. (Mat. 6:33).

US Team of 22 visits us from 6 th – 16 th August (Aug 1, 2005)

We are making final preparations for a team coming to visit us this weekend… They are from Rochester, NY USA and are going to be volunteering in several ways. One way is going to join with the children's church of our Huruma church and facilitate a Vacation Bibleschool for up to 300 children in Huruma and neighboring areas. That will be in the mornings of next week. During the afternoons, they will be volunteering at various orphanages around the city, including Kings Kids Village and Joy Divine Rehab Centre. They will be staying with us at Kings Kids and have donated furnishings for the upper two apartments including beds, matresses and a fridge and stove for one of the apartments. We are really looking forward to their visit and ask for your prayers as they are here…

Vehicle Challenges (Aug. 1, 2005)

Two years ago, a local tour company gave Kings Kids Village a bus from their fleet. Getting it ready to use for our guests has been quite a long story, but we should have it registered by Tuesday of this week. It has been a challenge to get it registered. Adding to that, the van we just gave over to Kings Kids Village was involved in an accident two weeks ago. It has major body damage, but should be on the road by the time the team gets here. Then this past week, Paul and Eleanor's van overheated. It is now in the shop to access the damage (if any) to the cylinders. It should be ready to drive this Wednesday. In the mean time we are very thankful for Phil Stern, who had the insight to help raise funds for a new van for Jon and Molly. That new (1997) van has been the only operational vehical at KKV for the last week and has kept us going along with a few scheduling miracles. Thank God for His grace…

The search for house parents continues (Aug. 1, 2005)

We ask for your prayers as we continue to search for parents for our expanding orphange. We have six children at present, but have the facilities in place to multiply that to 32 children by the end of this year. The real bottle-neck in the works is getting three sets of parents who will bond with the vision of KKV. This is a real challenge since there are so many people in Kenya at large who are fatherless. Single parenthood is one of the underlying social delemas interconnected with Kenya's growning number of orphans. We need three miracles. Please pray.

Registering as a "Company" (July 13th, 2005)

We have been trying to register as a trust with the Kenya Government since November 2002. Since trusts are not being issued since before that time, we are now going a different route. We are registering as a Company of limited guarentee for the operation as a charitable organization. This will allow us to own the orphanage land in the name of Kings Kids Village, which is a requirement to be registered as an orphanage by the Department of Children's Services of the Kenya Government.

III Phase Meters installed (July 8th, 2005)

Our Three Phase electrical supply wait is over after over a year. We are presently getting Faith House connected to the new board, which will allow us to set up our solar powered invertors and hot water heater boosters.

Our Bus is up and running (July 13th 2005)

In 2002, we were given an 18 passenger bus by a tour coumpany here in Nairobi. Since then, we have struggled getting it ready for use for the orphanage. At one point, the starter was stollen out of it. We have been looking for another one for about 6 months, We now have it installed and are ready to finalize it for road use by getting it inspected and a speed governor installed. We will be using it heavily next month when we host a 22 member mission team.