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Hello all!

As you may know, this is not Laura Gordon…as she is on her way to KENYAAAAAAAAAAAA today! Please keep Laura, Ashley, and Holly in your prayers as they head to Kenya today, and pray for Alaina as well as she heads there next week.

Laura left today a little after noon and will be arriving in Kenya on Thursday around 9 pm Kenya time and around 2 pm Central Time Zone! God has been soo good with providing and helping all these girls get to Kenya this summer! :D

They are bringing to Kenya:

20 quilts for families who are in need of extra comfort
6 proclaimers (audio solar panel bibles for widows who can’t read, faithcomesbyhearing.org)
Toys and craft projects for orphans
Clothing for orphans (Laura was able to fill a whole suitcase to bring over )
A projector to show the Jesus Movie in their tribal language
$9,000 for the projects we will be working on while we are in Kenya.

Examples of some projects that they might be doing:

Sinking a well in the Orphanage, planting trees in the orphanage, hopefully breaking ground on the orphanage, building and repairing huts for the widows, providing the schools and widows with HIV/AIDS awareness and medication, purchasing a solar panel for the village, start a goat dairy project that would provide milk for widows who are HIV positive and whatever God shows us the community is in need of.

They have already sent support for a sewing ministry that has started up this week. About 10 widows are going to be sharing 4 machines and be trained on how to run a business and how to sew. They will eventually be a self sustaining business and will be able to create clienteles in the village, city and in the US. Global Hands Fair Trade in Lake Geneva has agreed to buy some of their products to sell in the US. This ministry is such a unique one because they are able to create business to make money for their family. Laura’s team are interested in starting more ministries similar to this, so the widows can earn a stable income.

Please continue to keep Laura and her team in your prayers, and pray that the team would all grow closer to God and be able to be examples for Christ to the people of Kenya. Please also pray that the community hearts will be open to the support system they want to introduce to them about AIDS, and that the community wouldn’t be so focused on their traditions, but focused on what the word of God has to say about these matters. Please pray that we would be open and aware of Gods presence and leadership over the next couple weeks.