Quick Updates While we have Internet

We've arrived in Machakos! We have moved into our lovely 3+ bedroom ranch-style home in Machakos, Kenya on the Scott Campus. We have most of our boxes unpacked and are enjoying our lovely home. The missionaries who lived here last put a lot of work into this home and we appreciate their hard work. We love this house. We will try to post a photo or two later this week.

We've been out of communication for the past few days for two reasons. 1) We haven't had power every day. Kenya gets most of it's power through hydro-electric means and because of the drought, we experience about two days a week without power. - This will take some getting used to. 2) We haven't had the access code to get online on Scott's wireless network. But we have that now so I thought I'd take a few minutes this afternoon to give you updates.

We got everything we needed - at excellent prices - and we got it all in our home. Thanks for the prayers. The highlight was buying the refrigerator. We could not buy one in Nairobi because we did not have a big enough vehicle to move it upright to Machakos. So we trusted the Lord to provide us a refrigerator once we arrived in Machakos. Not only did he provide one, he provided one that was larger and the same price and free delivery of the ones we could get in Nairobi. God does answer prayers - even for small things.

However, God's answers to prayers are often puzzling. We asked you to pray for the AIM AIR community after the crash last week. We received news on Friday that Ryan - the engineer who was riding next to the pilot - died early Friday morning. They evacuated him to South Africa to more properly care for his burns and upon arrival they discovered the burns were more severe than they initially thought. His Kidneys shut down and he never recovered. His wife and mother were preparing to leave from Kenya but didn't make it to South Africa before he died. Sadly he leaves behind a young family and a newly adopted Kenyan daughter. Pray for their family. Mercifully Ryan will not have the months/years long battle recovering from severe burns.

God truly is mysterious. He answers our prayers for material items - refrigerators/ stoves/ ovens/ yet answers prayers differently for a young father who dies in a hospital in South Africa - thousands of miles away from his family. We do trust our loving father and continue to see His hand all around us, even if we don't totally understand him.

More later.