Trinity Global

Titus wrote me an email. Joseph is supporting nearly 20 children out of one area. He is ministering to the people remotely because Trinity Global provided him with a motorcycle. There is a baptism every week. Titus would like to see some support or some house for these children. I am praying about it now.

My biggest prayer requests are for donors and provision and resources. We have contacted Medical Bridges and requested a huge shipping crate full of free medical equipment. They have responded and we will begin working on the legalities. We will need Dr. Kennedy's information, I am sure.

We don't have the medical clinic built yet. Work has begun on the TGD facility that will house the computer lab. I am praying that Dell will promote the project. They could even sponsor us and use us as an example of the kind of work employees at Dell are involved in.
They could give us the Dell Connected Classroom equipment---thousands of dollars of savings.

With these two giant donations, it would free up our donors to give directly to PEOPLE which can be very satisfying to the soul. Villages need Wells---and a well directly helps everyone in the area of the well. It reduces the time women and children spend traveling to watering holes which then have putrid water! so many parasites and worms get into the body through contaminated water. so many infectious diseases come from the feces to mouth transfer. Infected children commonly use water sources to relieve themselves and inadvertantly sicken whole villages quickly.

and many of these sickness have CURES but no one has the money to buy them or they are not available in their area.

WE CAN CHANGE THAT!!

WE CAN AFFECT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE'S LIVES DIRECTLY!

and so we will, though God's mighty work. He is doing things I would never imagine. I am going places I thought I would never see.

When I read "Goforth of China" about Jonathan Goforth, I was so deeply stirred to travel to China and serve the people there. I prayed for China for 20 years and India as well. When I traveled to India, I did not feel the heart call I expected. However, China nearly blew me over. The imact spiritually and emotionally was intense.
And so I was sure (and I am still sure) that I am called to China.

However, I have ALWAYS told the Lord, "Here I am, send me." and I have always been willing to go anywhere and do anything. I had even come to the point of willingness to never go! if that was His will, then I wanted to agree with Him completely.

so I am blessed beyond measure to be doing a good work for the Kingdom of God and to minister to humanity in love. I pray that I ALWAYS minister love---however, some critics have told me otherwise.
but I am not daunted. I suppose everyone has a critic. You cannot please everyone---and pleasing man is not the goal---we please GOD. and He sees the motive of our hearts. He sees me typing here right now. and sees you reading right now (hey, thanks for reading!)
and He works it all to His good pleasure and to the culmination of this world and the beginning of the next.

We can't know His full will, but He has revealed His Will in His Word and He reveals His Will by His Spirit. So there is much we CAN know.

and what I do know is this:

God desires that we love others, serve others, forgive others, bless others, and pray for one another.
He commands us to go into the world and preach the gospel, baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and teaching people to OBEY all that He has commanded.
(obedience is a big deal to God but it is terribly out of fashion these days with many who claim to be of Christ.)

He desires that we care for the helpless, the widow, the orphan. He desires that we live with honesty and integrity in all that we do. We should not have even an appearance of evil. if things are questionable, in love we are to live for the conscience of our weaker brother.

We are to be ambassadors for Christ, imploring men, BE RECONCILED TO GOD!

These are just a few of the commands that motivate me. I desire to know His Word and to meditate on it day and night. But the time for study is past. We competent ministers of the Word. We are to be active. as the book of James insists.

we are to have unity with our brothers and sisters. we are to forgive them. we are not to associate with blatent hypocrites, though. if a brother or a sister are in flagrant unrepentant sin, we aren't to eat with them. Jesus was harsh with the pharisees yet tender to the crazy, the possessed, the low life. He was compassionate to the pressures and fears of the common people. He ministered to the poor.

we are to esteem the poor and carry their burdens. we are not to just say, "God bless you!" but we are to help them.

i think around here there is merely much of rich giving to rich. what a waste! or we are giving to ourselves.
we have so much debt that we don't want to give to the kingdom. We want to keep paying down our debt and then OOPS we ran it back up again. Oh, we need to pay it back down again. and so we never give to God because we are always paying ourselves.

buying new cars, new clothes, new foods, new activities, ---when we are already more than amply supplied -----BUT

and this is big.

BUT THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO HAS SO MUCH MORE THAN WE DO SO WE CAN ALWAYS FEEL LIKE WE ARE NOT VERY EXTRAVAGANT.

oh,
but if we compared ourselves to the villagers of Western Kenya.
Hmmmn.
They have ONE cabinet in their house. it holds their pots, pans, dishes, clothes. They have one table and a couple of benches or a couch. Maybe two tables. They might have a goat. their walls are mud, their roof is thatched. They cook over a fire. they draw water from a stream that is dirty. their house has only two rooms. the other is the bedroom with a bed. I did not see anyone with mosquito nets---very dangerous.

Now. compare yourself to that!
how many shoes do you have? they do not all have shoes.
do you wear glasses or contacts? they need those too but don't have them.
do you take any medicine? even tylenol? they dont' have it.
do you have water in your house? electricity? they have to use an outhouse with a hole in the ground that you squat over.
do you have a job? a car? they don't


they really need clean water.
they need sanitary latrines and a way to wash their hands.
they need SHOES
they need healthy gardens with fertilizer and good seeds and a way to water.

supplies needed for Kenya

We've signed up with Medical Bridges hoping to transport a giant packing crate full of medical equipment to Kenya. The building materials arrived and work commenced!

Some of the medical supplies that can be purchased from a drug store or requested from your health care provider include:

Sterile and non-sterile gloves
guaze pads
band aids
chux pads
adult or child disposable diapers
individual alcohol pads
KY Jelly
Neosporin
Bactine
Hydrocortisone
Ointment for burns
Prenatal vitamins
multivitamins
Iron
Quinine


I went to a libraries of love Uganda fund raiser last night. she had pokie joes and people brought desserts. People made Tea and lemonade.



someone had donated several things from one of those home decorator to do silent auction. Then a cool thing was how she had several restaurants donating $25 gift certificates!
Like
Chili's
Red Lobster
Cinemark
Tokyo Steakhouse
Pei Wei

and I was thinking maybe I could also ask
Pappadeaux
Eddie Vs
Trulucks
Treehouse
Macaroni Grill
Olive Garden


and I'd like to make a prewritten thankyou and take it to them. it would work for their tax purposes and I'd fill in the amount of the gift. People could buy raffle tickets to bid on them. then we'd pull from the bag and award the certificates.

I saw it done there and it looks manageable.

I feel so stretched! I'm always doing these odd and weird things.
but I can do it! I can do it for Jesus and his love for those Kenyan children.

we are changing the world!
it is so rewarding.
i praise God every day.
when my mood sinks,
I think about Him and the work He is doing.
i'm grateful to be a part of His Kingdom.

blessing and glory and honor and power forever

Oh God is good. and I am so happy. God is good when I'm unhappy. He satisfies me when life is so painful. but I'm rejoicing today. I'm thankful for what God can do with willing hands. and I pray He enlarge our tents and stretch out our stakes. But let His Kingdom come.

It was so good today to go to Mister's work. it was so good! It was good to get the proceeds from the party. I was so thankful. I know our Kenyan friends are so thankful. Oh to help others who cannot help you back. it is so rewarding. Such the God-life. All that He does for us and what can we do for Him? NOTHING! He owns the cattle on a thousand hills and the heart of the King. He has no need of the blood of goats or cows or anything we could imagine doing for Him. He is sufficient in all things. He created everything! How magnificent.

So much is happening and I forget to blog anything. Thanks to my friend who says, "Hey! why isn't your trinity link on your blog?" well, I don't know. accident. dumb? but okay, i'll fix that. i need to make it a link on here and I'll do that soon.

for now. I'm just awed by God. How He works powerfully in one arena and then in some other arena, it might feel like, "Hello, God? Are you noticing this thingy over here?" and so we are so fickle. As if He should just hop to it when we have a perceived problem.

I'm just so thankful right now. So thankful.

Glory to God!

I am so blessed by the Lord!

We had a party for Bishop Titus and his wife, Rose on Friday. I sent home food with my friends who have large families. After they left, I discovered more food in the oven warming. What to do with all that food?
Today, I was in prayer and I asked the Lord to help me give this food to people who needed it. I was considering making large plastic baggies of food to hand out to people on the street corners. Suddenly, I thought of James Hinojosa who frequently goes down to 6th St. bridge to feed the homeless on Sundays. Immediately, I remembered that he is now going to early services--so he would be at church. But the idea came in such a way.......and the argument came so quickly........I knew I should TRY.
So I jumped up and called James on his cell phone. HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO WORK UNDER THE BRIDGE!! "Are you far? Where are you?" He was CLOSE. He had only gotten to Wells Branch, the street near our homes. "Can you come back and take food to the people?" OF COURSE!
and PRAISE THE LORD! HIS KINGDOM COME AND HIS WILL BE DONE!

Something so simple, yet so profound. I am just rocked to get such a blessing from immediate obedience. To know God spoke to me and that He had a plan. I am so thankful to participate!
Wow!

and that food did not go to waste.

Everyone is happy.

wow!

architectural plans for computer lab are complete

We got the computer lab building plans in the mail and they look great! Walter is doing a great job as an employee and he is training Wycliffe. We have lost contact with Francesca so we may need a new librarian, but it can wait. The building needs to be completed!

I'm having a church "Africa Network" meeting on Wednesday Aug 12. We have a list of about 50 people who have gone on trips to Africa before. Many could be college students who have moved on...we'll see. Lindsay joins us as a leader--she just returned from Tanzania where she was instrumental in the building of a medical clinic in Arusha through Manna Worldwide Ministries. We'll help people who feel called to Africa to find a ministry fit. We'll have monthly meetings for encouragement, prayer, support and networking.

On September 19th, I'll host a fund raiser for Trinity Global Development at headquarters and hopefully people will graciously join us to serve the people in the Kakamega area.

I'm apprenticing with a local midwife, beginning a Texas Midwifery 3 year course and taking nursing school pre-requisites. It's the abundant life!

Laura graduates on August 15th at Baylor and Steve's family will be joining us. I'm not sure who all will be coming. We should have a house full!

WE HAVE TAX EXEMPT STATUS!!!

Trinity Global Development received notice that our application as a 501 (c) 3 organization was approved. Now we are completing the paperwork with Dell to receive matching funds from employee donations. Wow. I'm amazed. What a blessing to our friends in Kakamega! What a blessing to the families out in the bush!

We met with our Minister of International Ministry at Stone. We hope to develop a missional community with those who are already working on the African continent for Jesus. With likemindedness and varieties of ministry, we will prayerfully support one another and network together in the body of Christ. It is an exciting time!

I added a photo of me with Boniface reviewing the recipients of the mosquito nets. He divided the 100 nets purchased by Trinity (with donations! thank you!) between several area leaders so that they went to the pregnant women and nursing mothers with infants first.

Right now we are working towards the computer lab building and equipment. We hope to bring several more computers to the area by December. We'll have a trip in December and bring 1o people. Each of those travelers will use one of their allotted suitcases to carry ministry supplies. We want to get the foundation poured. The Provincial Commissioner of the Western Province spoke with Steve and offered to preside over the ground breaking ceremony and assured him that he will provide security or government clearance as needed. He is equivalent to Rick Perry, but there are only 5 of them and they meet directly with the President of the country regularly.

We want to help the Emusanda Health Centre, but we also know that our friend Jane can re-open her medical clinic in Isongo with a gift of $350. That is as important. Emusanda is a few miles away from Isongo and people have to walk to the clinics, so they serve different clientele. S

We are expanding the school, adding cooks and teachers. We want to sponsor uniforms for the children because all the schools in Kenya require uniforms. The students need two meals a day and school supplies for children like Paul, who is 7 years old attending preschool. Both of his parents were killed in a car accident and his older brother had to drop out of junior high to become the father of his siblings, so Paul did not get to go to school either. Now he is learning English, Swahili, math skills, and even social skills using the national curriculum for Kenya.

God is moving mightily. It is a great time in Kakamega. The country is in a great depression and the few jobs are fleeing away, yet God is graciously providing for our brothers and sisters in Kenya. There is no recession in heaven! God is on His throne reigning over His people. He is bringing prosperity upon His children.