Greetings to all,

Callie has finally recovered from the disease she had. Many of our workmen have experienced the same symptoms recently. I think it was just a bad virus that was being passed around. We are really grateful for all you prayers.

Things have been going well, and the work continues on our new church building. I have finished fabricating the main steel roof trusses, and my brother is cutting the steel for the smaller trusses as I write. Dad has found another water source for our side of town. He is working on that right now with our backhoe. It will eventually provide safe drinking water for 1/3 of our community, who are without safe water. The Lord has really blessed Dad’s effort in locating the spring. The spring was under 20’ of top soil. Pray that we can locate a spring closer to our location, so we can provide water to our mission station.

I have been teaching morning devotions to about 20 people for the past month or so. It has really helped my Swahili, and it is great to see the enthusiasm from the locals. They are there from 7:30 to 8:00 every morning during the week. Friday is quiz day and they are quizzed on the books of the Bible, the Ten Commandments, and general Bible knowledge. We also learn memory verses, as we go through a book of the Bible. Right now we are finishing up Matthew. We head down to Nairobi the 20th of August.

We will be dropping off my parents at the airport the 28th and head back to Loyangalani two weeks later. Callie will be learning Swahili, and I will be converting our 8’ x 20’ shipping container into a temporary home, so we have a place to stay while we are in Nairobi getting supplies.

Please pray for us, as we return to Loy by ourselves. Callie will be continuing with Swahili as I do the finish work on the children’s home. Callie and I will also be teaching more, and I will be preaching from time to time. Language learning is still one of our main priorities, because it is hard to be effective without it. Thanks again for standing behind us in the work that is going on out here. We couldn’t do it without you.

In Christ – Paul, Callie, and Annabelle