Unexpected travel

Friends and Family,We have travelled back to the US for a time.  We were at the end of our Tourist visas in Kenya and our work permits were not progressing fast enough to allow us to remain in country.  We have been blessed by our family to have a place to land in the Kansas City area.  Our plan during this time is to get immigration paperwork moving ahead in Kenya.

Additionally, we plan to really focus on a few of our children who were not adjusting to all the transitions within the last nine months.  We looked into many schools in the Nakuru area, but just never found the educational support they need.  A few of the older kids found connections during the school break in Kenya when all the neighbors were home, but those friends sadly went away to boarding school.

Please continue to pray for His Cherished Ones, all the staff that are the hands and feet of Jesus.  Washing about 150 nappies (diapers) and outfits daily is no small task by itself.  The staff are all amazing servant hearted individuals working tirelessly everyday to love on the children. We will miss living life day to day with them during this time. We want to name them one by one, they are incredible.

Your prayers for our family have been so powerful, please don’t stop.  The transition was going so well to realize we had bounce for a time has been a turn we did not see coming.  We are and always have been an open book, that has not stopped.  In full disclosure, we have been traveling and supporting our family from the proceeds of the sale of our Texas home.  That will continue during our time in the U.S. Would not want any of you to think otherwise.

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