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.
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!!!Checks to Open Heaven Missions
