Stolen Camera, Baby Named Teresa & Sunday Services

One of the many things that you grow to appreciate when you live in another country is your home country, the United States of America. As I travel throughout Kenya I see the hand print of the USA everywhere. It is usually in the form of compassion and help from the USA to Kenya. You can see it in the markets, in the villages and in the attire of the Kenyan people. Our country gives more to Africa than all other countries combined. So living here and ministering here makes you proud to be an American. Even though our Nation is daily being eroded and stripped of our Christian heritage and values it is still the greatest nation in the world. And even though we live far from our homeland we had the opportunity to celebrate the fourth of July with some missionary friends who live here in Eldoret. However while visiting their home on Saturday we had our camera stolen from the Land cruiser. It is a sobering reminder that you cannot let your guard down for one minute and that everything must be lockup and accounted for at all times. So we live and learn but we will not make the same mistake twice. Sunday we visited a Church called Namawanga. My only task was to teach Sunday school. I brought a lesson from Psalm 119 & Titus 2 on personal purity. What started out as a 30 minute Sunday school lesson ended up a three hour doctrinal class. The Pastor opened up the end of class for questions and I answered questions on everything from eternal security of the believer to selective rapture vs general rapture. It was great to see people hungry for the knowledge of God’s word for people perish without it. After church services we traveled to the home of young preacher boy that is a member of one our churches in the area whose wife had just had a baby girl at 6am Sunday morning. The baby was beautiful and the momma was not in too good of shape but we were honored when we found out they had named her Teresa.

I can foresee many little Teresa’s running around as we also met a little Eddie yesterday named after Bro. Eddie Williams from his days of working in Western. Before we left I took a picture of Baby Teresa with my phone camera and we gave the husband some Meds for Momma to help her with pain and fever. Please keep Geoffrey, Mary and Baby Teresa in your prayers. They generally travel to Mt. Elgon and Mawe Tatu for evangelism almost every week. We also ask you to pray for next week’s evangelism, #3 to Mt. Elgon. This week while doing the Bible study there Pastor Peter was told of rumors of another clash. That region needs our prayers.
Thanks for allowing us to share our life’s with you.
Chuck & Terry Fernandez
Kenya, East Africa