We all made it safely to Kenya!

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We apologize for the very late blog updates, but we've experienced some difficulties with internet.  We all had some travel difficulties this year, but we made it only by God's grace - thank you for your prayers!  Chase arrived a bit later than expected in Nairobi Saturday night, but was able to hook-up with the Cleft lip team and travel over Kijabe.  The team performed 49 cleft lip surgeries and that equals many, many transformed lives, not just for the children, but for the parents as well!

Jimmy and Hunter arrived in Nairobi Thursday night, October 5th and spent two nights in Nairobi.  We met up with Jimmy and Rose Wambua and connected again for the Sawyer water filters.  We toured the Japmor offices, enjoyed lunch together and went to their home for Chai.  Saturday we left to go pick up Chase and off to Tenwek Hospital.

Chase saw patients on Monday and then woke up Tuesday morning feeling ill.  Looks like she may have had some bad food or water and became dehydrated.  One of the missionary surgeons came down to the apartment with an OR tech and began to give her IV fluids.  Chase felt better, but struggled the next two days and limped along at the hospital.  As usual, she has been seeing some very sick patients and so surgery has started to pick up for her.  Please continue to pray for Chase for strength and health!

Jimmy and Hunter have been working on water filters and as of this post, we have given all of them away (215 filters), but we still have some to deliver.  We purchased 40 of our own buckets to help some of the people out that could not afford a bucket at full price.

Chase will have an update tonight or tomorrow - thanks for your prayers!!
Jimmy, Chase, & Hunter
Good rains mean electricity and water to drink!

Hunter putting together a filter!
Completed buckets ready for a home!

Promoting - "Pure Water for Africa"


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