Home from Kenya Trip Update

Back home to California!! Kenya Trip Update

                       

We are home!!! We had a great trip to Kenya. We laid the cornerstone for Shining Star Children’s Home in Kisii. The home will be built in 4 stages with stage one progressing very fast. We have a team of men working for us who are committed to the children working many hours without pay and going above and beyond their duty. This first stage is already full with 24 children waiting for the completion.

After the laying of the cornerstone we had two groups 3 sisters and 2 brothers that actually came to the pastors home by their selves and knocked on the door begging to be included as they are living on the streets right now. So our 24 capacity phase has turned into capacity of 29 as we cannot turn them away.

I have included pictures of them in at the bottom of this update.

We had a unbelievable meeting at Prayer Mt Kenya with the women numbering 150 -200 and crowding inside the small auditorium. God moved and the women stayed from 5 AM till 10 PM at night, worshipping, praying and learning. Several were healed and delivered as we both ministered.

Also had privilege to speak at at Deliverance church in Nairobi where they are maxed out in their makeshift building that holds 3,000 and are having 3 services every Sunday. It was a moving time to see all those people worshipping God.

We fed the street children in Nairobi and spoke at a Pastors conference as well as a church in the Keibera slum area. We stayed busy!

 To complete the 1st phase of the home we need only 7,000 more which will complete it. Since we left there has been such progress and we are believing for the remainder of the money necessary (7,000) to come in before Christmas so the children can move in by then. Only the roof needs to be placed and the plumbing placed for the home to be complete.

Thank you in advance for helping us meet this goal. You can donate on this page by following the link to our ministry Paypal acct.

We will be traveling again hopefully to Kenya in April to visit the children and start the new addition.

There will be three more additions in the complete building of Shining Star that when completed will house 96 children.

Enjoy the pictures and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your love and support.

Pastors Debbi & Rick Milliken

                                   

brothers who showed up at pastors home

Sisters who came to pastors home

the miracle of Feeding the children last year with 1 bucket of porridge and one of potatoes

Kenya in 36 hrs!

We are so excited to be going back to Kenya in less than two days! We will hit the Kenya ground running, with a conference at Prayer My Kenya and then Meetings at various churches in the district. Wednesday will be a special day as we gather with the children of Shining Star School and help Lay the cornerstone for the children's home. The children will be on hand to help as we dedicate the land to The Lord and these precious children Our journeys will take us to a pastors conference, the Kibera slums to minister to the children and Churches in Nairibi. We hope to share some pictures online so keep checking back for updates. Keep us in prayer, as we leave sept. 1-23

My photo book "Gates of Kenya"

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Shining Star Children's Home...New Work on Land

Shining Star Children's Home from Debbi Milliken

Exciting News

Habakkuk 2:3

New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

The message I give you
  waits for the time I have appointed.
It speaks about what is going to happen.
    And all of it will come true.
It might take a while.
    But wait for it.
You can be sure it will come.
    It will happen when I want it to.

Good Friday 2014!! So thankful today for all the blessings I have in this life.  Without Jesus, we would be so lost but with Him in our lives we are so FOUND!  The past few months have been a journey into the Father’s heart and discovering new things about His nature that just astounds me!

On the mission front; we are excited to be planning the laying of the cornerstone for Shining Star Children’s Home in Kisii Kenya the last of August /1st of September this year.

The children of Shining Star Children’s Home in Taita are eagerly awaiting their new rooms and supplies for school.
We have the electric in for the home in Kisii and the church and school there are already benefiting from it.

Our future plan for Shining Star Primary School in Kisii is to acquire new curriculum for them that is technology based. We are in discovery process to see exactly what type of equipment will work and getting the necessary curriculum downloaded. The plan is for each teacher to have an Acer Tablet preloaded with lesson plans that they can refer to with ease while teaching. (The teachers that are employed in most private schools, where the majority of the orphans go, are not accredited and so their own skills are not up to average.) This way the children can get a quality education and the teachers can function at a higher level of excellence while teaching.

If you would like more information on how to get involved in this project, email us at Openheavenmissions@msn.com. We are looking for donations of equipment as well as the programs to load the curriculum onto.

On the home front, we are settling in at Redding Calif. for this season. We sold our homes and most of our possessions, still a work in progress, and have opted for this little town surrounded by beautiful mountains to live.  It is much more inexpensive that the Silicon Valley and although we are sometimes lonely here, we know we are also here to deepen our relationship with the Father.

We are speaking at various meetings in Fresno/Clovis area as well as traveling back to San Jose monthly to meetings there. We will be in the Southern states the month of June, speaking and sharing our vision for missions and hopefully picking up monthly sponsors for the home(s). Back to Kenya in August / September where I (Debbi) will be speaking in a national Women's conference on Prayer Mountain, Kenya as well as our work in the homes and street ministry. Rick will be holding a pastor’s conference and doing several Open Air Crusades with several churches in Kisii and Nairobi.

We will be laying the cornerstone for the Kisii home and helping the church people who are already gathering stones to break up to make our own bricks for the completion of phase one of the home there.

Our budget for the next phase of our homes is $10,000.00  We need to reach our goal before September to be able to do all we have planned when we go this time. 
Keep us in prayer for finances as well as protection, wisdom and favor with officials as we go forward.

We appreciate each one of you who call yourselves our partners and who sow faithfully to the ministry God has placed in our hearts. Many many years ago God spoke to us and told us, “If we would be faithful with another man’s vision, he would give us one of our own.” For 26 + years we did just that and sowed so many seeds into children, youth and adults. Now the vision God has given us is for this “appointed time” (Hab 2:3), is here. We waited for it and it has surely come!! Thank you for helping us fulfill our vision!!!

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Happy New Year 2014

January 1, 2014

Happy New Year everyone!! We are excited as this year promises to be one of the most eventful ones in our 37 years of marriage and 35 years of ministry. As we start toward the future with two properties being developed in Kenya and a school we were honored to inherit with over 100 students, we can truthfully say our cup is running over.

 Shining Star Primary School

Read below about special education project!

Shining Star Primary School
Special project in the works to get e readers for the teachers of our school, loaded with lesson plans for the whole year for the children. Quality education is a must and we have just received word we have the school registered with the country now so the education the children are beig given will now be recognized


At this present time we are running electric to the church in Kisii where the future home for the children will be and then on down the hill to the school, so in the next couple of months we expect to have it completed and in working order. The people of the church and the village in the bush where we are locating Shining Star #2 are running the wires and clearing the ground by hand so the expense will be lower.

We have more opportunities in 2014 looking at us, in India as well as the Philippines where God has been speaking to us about for several months. But our main financial focus will be the two homes in Kenya and as we move forward we are anticipating taking teams over to help with the building and to minister.

I have been asked to be speaker at Kenyan Women's conference at Prayer Mt in northern Kenya in September and we are also going to be holding a outdoor crusade when we go then. 
We want to thank all who have helped us by donating and with your prayers. We could not do this without your help you are valuable to us.

 Land being cleared for Shining Star #2 and roofs of Shining Star Primary School located on land.

We are believing for 60,000 for the 1st phase of Shining Star Kisii and 50,000 for the completion of Shining Star in Taiti Hills in 2014. We need partners who want to join us and make a difference in these children's lives. 

Plans for a trip for medical relief for the school children and the orphans is in the works. Email us if you are a professional and are interested in going.

You may help by donating any amount helps. just hit the donate button and use paypal.