First couple weeks back in Kenya

Coming home to Kenya has been quite wonderful. We arrived on Sunday February 8th to our base in Butere, Kenya. Our place was in desperate need of cleansing as it had remained empty for a couple months. Renee worked & fussed over it until she deemed it acceptable.
We had to make a run into the city, Kisumu to have my infected foot examined at the hospital & to get groceries. I got blood tests, x-rays & an examination. The conclusion was a bad infection caused by me pricking my foot on 'something'. It had gone into my heal & made its way up to my knee swelling my calf up like a balloon & eliminating any sign of bones in my foot like ankles & joints. I was put on the strongest antibiotics & cough medicine.
While in Uganda, I had received an email from a pastor from Winnipeg, Manitoba; someone (Pastor Vince Rattai) who had been on missions to Romania in the 90's with Rev. Mike Jones. He was coming on mission with a team from Canada & the US. We spoke briefly on the phone & made plans for him to hook up with us after arriving in Kenya.
Pastor Vince spent the first week with his team in Eldoret, a city over 4 hours from us in Butere. They did non-stop ministry from the moment they arrived without catching their breath from jet-lag. The team is
Christian International (CI) & they are in Canada & the US.
What was interesting is the leader, Alex Florence is a guy Renee & I met while camping at his campground in Edmonton 4 years ago & for him to be here & connected with Vince was a divine connection.
Full on ministry began on the Thursday. Vince & I went to a village called Shitsitswi, just up the road from Sabatia, the next town from Butere where we live. We began with an afternoon open air crusade in the marketplace where over 30 came forward at the call for salvation. We continued like that for 3 days netting over 150+ souls for Jesus! It was an amazing move of God. Sunday, we planted a new church with Pst. Peter who has been a friend for many years. He was so excited at what God had done in this area as he's been praying over it for some time. He's got a lot of follow up work to do now.
Tuesday, February 17th we met with some pastors & leaders we are working with to lay a good foundation for moving ahead in ministry. I spoke first & then Vince; I pulled some statistics from the internet regarding the religious demographics for Kenya. It says there is 88.5% Christians in Kenya & my view was that if that were true, there wouldn't be the corruption, poverty & problems that there are in this nation. I shared more that once people are saved, foundations of character need to be built into each & every one. I carried on in that vein; Vince added to it with laying good foundations for apostolic ministry teams. We met for lunch & shared for about 3 hours. We heard back from the leaders that it was the most positive & effective leaders' meeting they've been to. We will be continuing to build on that.
On Thursday the 19th we went to Masaba where IMS has planted a church & have been doing more crusades & evening revival meetings. It's been extremely fruitful & enjoyable. There is something really special about this area & we look forward to our continued relationship there.
Tomorrow is Sunday the 22nd & we'll be busy with a service at Butere Boy's school, which is almost next door with a service beginning at 7am. Next is Butere Girls' school at 8am, then Masaba church at 10am with a teaching, then a preach finishing off around 1pm. Then we're darting back to our home in Butere to pick up our suitcases & bus it to Kisumu overnight so Vince Rattai can fly to Nairobi, then back to Canada.
It's very busy here but extremely rewarding. God is utilizing us in a variety of ways & is speaking to us about our focus in ministry.
Things are becoming clearer & always more exciting. We continue to be grateful for all the prayer support we've had & ask that all who pray would continue asking the Lord for protection for us, good health, provision & clear direction. God bless you all so much.