Installment 21

Installment 21
And then there were 93. That’s almost a 12% increase in 120 days. Don’t you wish you could get that kind of increase with your investments. J & C went to town to get another baby and possibly 2. I did what I do best, strutting around with keys in my hand, doing absolutely nothing, but looking important. So, while I acted like I ran Instep, J&C were signing another part of their hearts away. Dorcas is about 13 months old and lived in Sabanga, just about 6 or 7 km from here. She lived in the open market with her mother. One of the aunties here knew of this one and asked Carla to look into the situation. So, without going into detail here, Carla met with the mother and Dorcas and the Children’s Services and now she is the proud new mother of a girl. Dorcas is small…I mean small. She looks like a premie. Carla says that Dorcas might be the worse case of malnutrition she has seen here. She thinks food will correct the situation. I asked if that is true, where will Instep get ‘food’. As you know, I sometimes have reason to question the ‘food’ here. But I have to say, looking at all the hordes of snotlockers here, something about what they feed them must work. I think Carla said that Dorcas weighs around 7 lbs……at 13 months.
Tracy came today too. She is about 2 yrs old. She looks like she has eaten ok, but she wears a hat. Not sure of all the history, but when she was smaller, she got a wicked burn on top of her head. Her mother used the baby to solicit sympathy and get money. Another ministry tried to get help for Tracy, but was turned away by her mother who wanted money to let them help. If it had been taken care of right away, Tracy probably would have been ok. But since it wasn’t, she has need skin grafts. I know I don’t have it all straight, but close, and I’ll update you when I get more info. So, 92 and 93 are joining tonight a rather large family….where they will grow up experiencing real love and acceptance…..and ‘food’ too. I’ll try to get some pic’s and upload them asap.
I believe that Dale is just about to land in Nairobi. Lucky for him he took an airplane, as I’m sure that air traffic control wouldn’t have let him land on his own. I’m so excited…he is going to enter into my joy. He will spend the night in a place called Methodist House. It’s kind of a hotel/retreat place for missionaries. I hope that they pick him up…it works better that way. Tomorrow he will take the 1 hr flight to Kitale and we will pick him up. I can’t remember if I told you all about Dale’s coming, but it is filling a gigantic need. We can’t get going on the buildings until we have a topographical map. He’s coming after just one sniveling whining call from me. How about you, would you give up your time to fly 10,000 miles, reverse your time clock and stay for just 4 days to do what you do everyday?? Isn’t our God gracious….He didn’t need to make this happen, but He seems to want to take care of these, His kids.
We haven’t had electricity in ½ of the compound all day. The power comes in on 3 wires and feeds different parts of the compound. One of the wire feeders must have called in sick. Of course, it’s my building section that is out.
Two things…..our contractor actually showed up and has almost finished a little storage pre-project that I gave him….I’m so excited…he came, he came….gives me a glimmer of hope that he might be able to pull off the big project. And, when I was in a shop yesterday in Eldoret, they had flat screen tv’s for sale….right next to them they had kerosene lanterns…..only in Africa…talk about a mixed message.