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VAL’S FATHER HAS GONE HOME: We awoke this morning with some sad news. Valerie’s father, George, has passed away. We were hoping that he would rally and hold on until we returned to the states but the Lord’s timing is always perfect. He died peacefully while his brother, Dick, was […]
First of all I want to thank Melinda Jolly for heading up our prayer covering. She and a group of volunteers have commuted to keeping us in prayer during the next few months. And believe me, we can feel it! For several days Valerie was suffering from and unexplained high […]
CHURCH KENYA STYLE It was off to Church today in the Eastern part of Nairobi with our team of nurses and many of our Worldcomp leadership team. We celebrated with one of our favorite Kenyan churches, The Mwiki Deliverance Church. Valerie stopped by the restroom to wash her hands and […]
WELCOME TO KENYA Went to the airport last night to pick up the nurses. Somehow every trip to the airport is like a “rescue mission”. When you come from a world of order, where A comes after B and 2 comes after 3, you come to expect that things like, […]
ON MY LAST DAY IN KENYA Last night we stood in a circle and sang an old song. “Bind us together Lord, bind us together with cords that cannot be broken”. As we sang I remembered that I was the one who introduced this song to Kenya at the Social […]
DO I HAVE A STORY TO TELL! Many of you know I am a diabetic. Just before we left camp last evening I took an insulin shot because my blood sugar was a bit high. Little did I know that we would be caught in a traffic jam for over […]
GETTING PAST THE CONFUSION Setting up for a large camp is quite a chore. We arrived early to get the rooms ready. Today in our Mwiki Camp we have the largest group of medical professionals we have ever had. I’d say there are 70 or more. There are also a […]
LOVING OUR ORPHANS “Pure religion and undefiled before God is to visit orphans in their affliction” James 1:27 We spent the day today with our orphans at our Worldcomp Home of Grace. I have been privileged to see, first hand, the profound transformation of their lives. They came to us […]
DAY TWO IN THE KAYOLE AREA Kayole is located in the extreme Eastern part of Nairobi. It’s a real chore just to get here. For years it has been a place where people went if they had no other place to go. The majority of the residents are squatters. There […]