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The Edapal Family
Serving God with THATmission

Things you could pray for now - if praying is something you do!!!!

  • Thank God for His faithfulness as the Churches in the area of Napak are growing in number and in faith
  • Thank God for His provision of a vehicle for Keshule to make trips into the villages - rather than having to rely on other people being availible to help him out!!! :-)
  • Praise God for the kind gifts from churches and individuals which enabled us to buy bicycles for the Church!!
  • Thank God for the four local leaders who are able to go to turkana lanuage Bible school each month!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Food relief and Sustainable development

People are hungry, in this village identified after a survey as one of the most desperate places!!!!
They are cracking 'engol' - a palm fruit, as most other food is no longer available.


A child helping his mother to Crack the fruit, to get the 'tasty' flesh to eat.


Maize, beans and Uji (porridge) mix and oil arrive in the village church, ready for giving out.


This Mama has her share, 45kg of Maize, 20kg of beans, 3l of oil and 5kg of Uji mix (mostly for the smaller children)

The relief food was first off loaded to the Church (of CMF - who Keshule worked with to get his food distributed), so that order could be maintained while giving it out!!!


People we really satisfied and thankful for the food they received


Maize in storage, ready for the next distribution trip!!


In Napak Village keshule was able to give out the tools and seed THATmission was able to buy through kind donations - of parteners both local to Kenya and overseas.

Lokuda - one of the Church Elders and a farmer (who was one of the first farmers in the area) receiving seed, millet, spinach, tomatoes, onions, water melon and kale - some for consumption by him and his family, some by other village people, also some of the seeds bought are for produce which will hopefully be sold in Lodwar town!!!!!


An older Mama and her son, receiving and Panga (machete), Jembe (digging tool) and seeds.


Ten sets of tools we bought to give out to people!!! - More needed!!!! for the next four villages!!!!


The variety of seeds that THATmission was able to give out - thanks to all who partnered, more as still needed!


As well as helping to meet people's physical needs, so too are people's Spiritual needs addressed, Keshule gave this older guy his Audio Turkana Bible - New Testament! - even more of these are needed (despite the fact we are doing literacy - the older people especially need these Audio Bibles to hear the word of God!!!!


Traditional drums for the first and second Churches!!!!


Our friends Gene and Melba Morden of CMF (Christian Missionary Fellowship) are working hard to dig wells and get gardens established all over Turkana!!! This is an exapmple of what CAN happen with SUSTAINABLE development!!!!!!!


A girl watering a garden, with water from one of the wells!!!

It was a really good time for Keshule this trip in Turkana. It was very practical, to organise a Lorry full of maize (at an amazing price - God's favor!!!) to get to Turkana, to get beans oil and Uji mix at GOOD prices in Lodwar! To team up with Gene in getting the first load of food out to a very needy area - was great. It was wonderful to be able to give the Church and community seeds and tools in order that they might be able to feed themselves!! ANYONE who wants to partner with THATmission in getting sustainable development rooted into these villages then please drop us and e.mail!!! edapal.turkana@yahoo.co.uk.

THANKS - from Keshule!!!
Posted by THATmission - Turkana, Kenya at 5:29 PM

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 11:19 PM

    Awesome news, Keshule and Ali and really good to see all the photos! God bless, Liz

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For God so loved the world . . . . .

Napak Church (from the first village I went to) has a small group of people who go with me to the other villages. This was our first week to go to the third village.

I left Lodwar around mid day and arrived in Napak around 2:30pm the people were waiting for me at the tree where we do Church. So we left, drove through the second village and arrived at the third village. In this village there is a small school which served as our base for that evening and the next morning.

After arriving we spotted a clusters of people under trees nearby. So we went over to say 'ejok' - 'hello'!!!! They were relaxing and drinking local brew . . selling goat meat, which could be selected from a branch!! Some people were selling maize others just socialising.

We talked with a few of the people and invited them to come to our evening gathering. We planned to show the 'Jesus' film and to share about God's love and to pray for people.

Before I leave home I always check my equipment to check that everything is fine. To my amazement when I was setting up at around 6pm the generator would not start!!!! I checked what all that I thought could be wrong, changing plugs, checking the fuel . . . but the generator would not start. I was quite stressed, loads of people (over 200) were waiting for 'something' to happen.

I asked my friends from Napak to start singing, at least something to occupy people for a while. I kept looking and fiddling with the generator. I checked the oil . . .it was OK . . . so I thought. I really wasn't sure what was wrong. I looked again at the oil and thought to myself maybe I should top it up. Usually I have extra oil in the truck . . but I had just used it on the truck itself!! What was I to do????

I sent a couple of the guys from Napak to cross the river to see if the irrigation projects had any spare oil. However while they gone I had the idea of draining a bit of oil from the engine of my truck!!! This was successful . . I put it in the generator and . . . . it started. I quickly rigged up the PA system and got the Music started!!! The guys could hear the music from the distance they had walked and came rushing back!!!!

People really enjoyed the Jesus film, and after I shared with them. I really believe God wanted those 400 or so people to hear the message of his love. I go to the village because 'God loves the world so much that he gave his one and only son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal live'. (John 3:16)

How will people in these remote places hear about Jesus if we who have heard don't go and tell them. The love of God and the life that Jesus brings is transformational. God loves it when his people connect with Him, I feel privileged to be able to live here and take the message of God's love to people who have not heard it. This weekend Ten people said yes to the following Jesus.

There are now three villages with believers in them who need nurturing in the word of God and discipling. People from the third village where we meet this weekend told us about a fourth village about ten km away that they said also need to hear the message and the stories of Jesus!

Please pray with us about this work and how it is growing. For wisdom as we look for people who can partner with us here on the ground, and as we look that God will show us potential leaders for these groups of new Christians.

God is GOOD!!!

Old Mama, New Skirt

Old Mama, New Skirt
skirt made by Ali for this Mama

Relaxing, selling and drinking at the third village

Relaxing, selling and drinking at the third village
This was one of the groups of people we went to greet when we arrived that the third village!

Please pray for these new Christians

Please pray for these new Christians
A number of people said YES to Jesus this weekend, we need wisdom of follow up!

traditional wedding party

traditional wedding party
on the way home we came across this bunch of people off to a wedding!!!