December is here!

Here are our Team from Hope Chapel Lewiston! Jeph, Sean, Savanah, James and Jason! We are so appreciative of their Love, Laughter and help! We had such a blessed 9 days with them!



We had so much fun with wigs and all the great gifts the team brought us!



James was a natural! The help that was done on the inside of the house with the children was great!



Savanah, was amazing with the children too!



This was the day they tried Ugali and Sucuma! They were surprised they liked it better than exspected!



One project the team Helped with was completing both sides of facia!



So much was accomplished while the team was here! While Horace and Jeph & Sean were working here on closing in the gables, others were working on the roof of the other house and several more projects were completed! Thank you Lewiston Team! Your help saved Horace weeks of work!



These are parents and students out in the front of the small rural school we have become friends with!



The benches you see were very much appreciated, Dad Horace made them so that the children in the school would not have to do their studies sitting on the dirt floor!



Here The team with Horace and our girls, got to be part of the schools closing day!



I was so blessed that the team got to celebrate Mom Phyllis' Birthday! It was a great day and we had Chinees for Dinner!



Here is our Dad with all the tools the team brought him! He was so happy and work goes so much faster because of these tools!


God has so blessed us here at Tumaini Children's Center with great fiends and family that come and put their hands to the work He is doing here in Kenya! We pray that you our blog family are all blessed for the prayers and support you give in everyway! May God return it 100 fold! Love the Leister Family here in Kenya

November Update!

This is our new door that access the play yard!




This is our play yard at the exicting house! A access door was just completed this week so the children can go in and out from the play room! We are so grateful to our Daddy for taking the time out of his busy work on the new house to complete this for us before it gets very hot!




Here is the new house! It is coming right along! The windows are in and the plastering will begin in a week or so! This is when it will really change! It will be plastered inside and out and then we can begin to paint! We have a team from the US coming this month and next to help! Yea!




Ruth is our newest! She is now 7 months old and she is so beautiful! She came with a huge swollon belly from malnutrition! She had s sever lung infection that we were able to get medication for. She was resqued by a children's center and we picked her up there. She is now growing so well and is so happy, as long as we keep her fed!!!





Enoch was born December 7th last year, 8 weeks early, they are estimating! The first time I saw him he weighed less than 2lbs! "He is dying" I was told ,when I inquired of him! He was refusing to eat because he could not keep down the amount that was being fed to him! I said " not on my watch" we were so blessed because God litteraly turned my face to see Enoch that day and then He provided the perfect person to step in and take care of him at the hospital until we could get him released to us! He is God's man and you can see it by the huge grin he always has on his face!




Brenda Boop! came last year about this time too! She is a miracle child just like the others! She was abandoned in a outdoor tolet at birth! She was found a few days later still alive and fighting, after the rats had taken her for dead and eaten part of her arm away! Everyone was so amazed that she survied this ordeal but that was before we got to know the personality that God had blessed her with! She is a fighter and there is no doubt about that. She has a Godly purpose and she will see it done!




Here is Dema sitting beside all the wonderful goodies we have just recieved from our " Shamba " kiswahili for farm! Children With Hope own a 6 arce plot of land about 25 minuets from Eldoret town. We plan to build there someday soon but for now it gives us bounty like this!




This is Joyce whom we brought back from the US with us. She went to the US earlier this year in May to have surgery done on her heart and mouth ( cleft lip & palet). She is growing so fast and has such a will to keep up with the other chidlren. We have a hard time keeping weight on her because of the energy she spends but she eats like a horse! In this picture she has decided that she will make it to the top of this mountain and not give up and she did! When she got to the top, she sat down and clapped her hands saying " yea Joyce "! And we agreed, she is trying to walk, she will soon!




Reuben is now 16 months and as been with us 1 year. Reuben also has made a incredable transformation. He was so small with a very large tummy from sever malnutrition when we resqued him. Now he is our Big Boy and out weighs all the other children! He is so sweet and can be so shy!



Here is our Dema, she is 3 years now and we can hardly imagine her as the same unruly little girl that we resqued form the hospital just a year ago after she had been abandoned on the highway!

Thank you so much Blog Family for all your prayers and supoort. The work here at Tumaini continues! We just passed our 2 year mark here in Kenya, the time has gone by so swiftly! We are so blessed that everything continues to go forward in the work God has given us here! Troyana & Dannon our 2 youngest daughters are growing as fast as all the Kenyan children! I will up date next tie on the remaining 6 children. Until then here are pictures of the 1st 5. We are all looking forward to the team that is coming this month! We pray that all of you will be blessed for all that you do to make this possible! In the mighty name of Jesus! Horace & Phyllis Leister and everyone at Tumaini Children's Center

oops! What happened to the Leisters!

Joyce & Luken

Jake & Randi & kids

Dad Horace & Jess ready for the wedding!

Great day at the NorthFork with the Schmidt family.



Shealyn & Becca our newist grandaughters.

Troy, Dannon, Jess & Jeremy's girls & Luken our newest grandson, Jake & Randi's Caedman & Addi.

Hello to all our Blog family! We are really still around,I can not tell you how excitedly busy we have been 1st on our trip to the US and then when we returned to Kenya!

1st I want to catch you up on our trip to the US! We had a great time with all our family and fiends, wow , it was fantastic! Visiting with many friends, sharing about what God is doing in Kenya at Tumaini Children's Center, holding & loving on our children and grandchildren exc... Thank God we can carry so many memories in our minds because we could never afford to pack them in anything else and bring them home to kenya!
The 1st week-end we were in town we shared at the Healing Room's Worship Center and shared with many friends & family about our life in Kenya. We had a great time and great food! Thank you everyone, it is always so important to us to share our experiences.
We then got to attend our newest grandson's ( Tekoa & Luken ) dedication at RiverCity Church again a great time of meet up with so many people we love there in the Lewiston Valley!
Horace and I decided that we would spend a couple of days just the two of us, so we went to one of our favorite spots in Idaho, Winchester Lake! We stayed in one of their " Yurts", if you do not know what this is I posted a picture. We had a great time mostly just sitting around and floating on the lake in a canoe! It was truly a gift and we are so happy we did it. Thank you Jessie & Bill for watching our girls and lending us a canoe!
The day before the wedding we decided to have a great adventure with our whole family! We had our family pictures taken! Wow what a adventure, there are 22 of us now and several 5 and under! The day began with rain and continued with pouring rain! I know I have already said this but Ange Movius took our pictures and she did such a fantastic job with what she had to work with! The day could not be changed because of every ones schedules! Thanks again Ange, you are truly a photographer!
Our daughter Brittney got married to Justin Derting on August 8th, 2009! It was an incredibly time! The ceremony and reception were held at our dear friends, the Holben's beautiful farm house!! What a glorious setting!
We want to put in a great big thank you to all that helped make this wedding so beautiful and run so smoothly! I do not know everyone so thank you those who were involved!
We are so proud of both Justin & Brittney, they are a wonderful Godly couple. What made the ceremony even more special was the officiating Pastor was none other than our son Joshua Leister all the way from kenya Africa. He did a great job and we all felt the presences of God the father looking over all, thank you Lord for being this close to us!
We were so blessed to see so many friends at the wedding that we would never have gotten to see other wise! Thank you everyone who came, so many from out of town even, our fiends Val Boyce and family and my sister Mariah and her son Brian and his family!
Our son Jacob Leister & his wife Randi, son Caedman & daughter Addison who we have not seen since she was 8 months old, came in from Kansas ( they moved there after we left in 2008) right before the wedding and we got to catch up on what God has been doing in their lives. They are doing so well where God has planted them we are very proud of them too!
We flew to Colorado and spent time eating!!! and speaking with our family there, the Seagrens! We had a great meeting with the board of Children With Hope and spoke one Sunday at River Of Life Church where we have been made to feel so much at home. We had a great meal with all our friends from the team who came in May & June to help with putting up the trusses and roof on the new house! Yea team hope to see you again here in kenya!
We got to pick up a very special someone and bring her back to Lewiston and then on to kenya with us! Joyce was waiting in Colorado at the Seagren's home for us! We were so happy to see her and witness for ourselves the miracles results of the surgeries that had been done while she was staying in the US since May 1st 2009. She is a changed girl, so full of life and her face is amazingly beautiful. We are so appreciative and blessed by those who were involved in all the care that she received during this time! Thank you again Rotary members, Doctors, Nurses, Crystal & Don Zimmer,everyone we love you and we will never let her forget who you are and what you have done in her life!
When we got back from Colorado we had only 10 days left to get ready to come home to Kenya! It was a fast and sometimes difficult time! Leaving is never easy! One of the funnest days that we had was with the Schmidt family at their family's favorite camping spot up the northfork of the clearwater river, it was so awsome!
Then there's the shopping then the packing and deciding what has to stay because of all the shopping!
We were so blessed by all the generosity that we received from all!! "Thank you' just never seems like enough! We love you all so much!
We spent as many hrs as we could with all our children & grandchildren but it is never enough!
We had time with our Marvin who we miss so much now that he is staying in the states to finish his last year of school and get ready for college! We got to visit a bit with our daughter Brandi and her two girls whom we had never met. They were both born while we were in Kenya, Shaelyn 13 months and Becca just 1 month old.
Our daughter Jessica & her husband Jeremy live there in Lewiston so we got to spend some great times swimming, shopping and catching up with their family! They are such a help to us here at Tumaini, Jess does all our personal states side financial work and a whole lot more! We are always tyring to get Jeremy over here so he can see how much he and his computer skills are needed here!
Well definately I will write again soon and fill you in on how it has been here in kenya since we have returned! Be so bless all of you and if you would like to see many pictures please visit us on Phyllis' Facebook account! Love you all the Leisters in kenya!

Adventure USA 2009

Dear friends and hopeful visitors to Tumaini Children's Center Dave & Kerry Sinner and children.


Tekoa all the way from Kenya with His grandfather Bill.


Dannon & our newest grandaughter Becca , our grandaughter Bailee, myself & grandaughter Shaelyn.


Here he is our newest Grand son
Luken Robert Ray Movius

We got to see Troy & Dannon's Aunt Dawn in Wenatchee WA


Troy & Dannon at our favorite family camping spot " Bowman Bay " up at the tip of Washington.


Dustin & Angela Cook in Eldoret Kenya at Tumaini Children's Center


Us with my sister Mariah and her family, Aburn WA


This is the Cook's home in Clarkston where we are staying!

Our daughters Home on the Palouse

Lewiston - Clarkston Valley Home!

Hello Blog family, we are in the US! We left Eldoret in the late afternoon on the 21st of July, saying a difficult "see you soon" to our sweet gifts from Heaven and the wonderfully brave young couple ( Dustin & Angela Cook from Clarkston Wa )
We arrived in Portland OR at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday the 22ND of July,picked up our rental car and headed to the motel for a good night sleep. 22 hrs in flights is brutal, after stopping at Burger king for an American burger!!! yum, of course!

The next morning we got up early to start the road trip part of our adventure.
We love to drive in the US, smooth highways are not available in Kenya!! As soon as we were on the road we saw Horace's face light up like a spot light had just hit him. We drove several hundred miles in the next 2 days stopping and visiting family and friends on our way! If you have never drove through the Pacific North West you have never lived, it is so beautiful, green and lush!!!

By Friday we had drove through the upper coastal part of Oregon and Washington state and then over and down to the bottom cornor of Washington where it meets Idaho along the snake river. Lewiston & Clarkston Valley is where we call home here in the US.

It was incredible to look down off the Palouse into the valley after being gone for the 16months we have just spent in Eldoret Kenya. God is so good all the time, which I know you have heard form me before but He is and never more obvious than when he gives you your hearts desire over and over again.


We so love what we do in Kenya with God's children there, it is the fulfillment of a hearts desire God placed in me long ago but between then and now God has also filled our hearts with our own children and many experiences and people that we love so much. He has not forgotten that our hearts cry out to see them and love on them too, Thank you Father you are a Great, Great loving Father!!!!!


I will continue to let you know how our adventure is going!! We still have Jake's family to see, Family Pictures to take,wow, we are getting to be a big Family, Brittney & Justin's Wedding and much more!


Please pray for our on going safety here and for the safety and well being of our babies and the wonderful young couple Dustin & Angela Cook taking our place in Eldoret Kenya! We Pray for all of God's constant blessings flowing your way! Loving with the Love God gives us, Horace & Phyllis Leister on an adventure in the US

It is June already!

Aunt Shari is here!

Marvin & Chelan arive in Eldoret.

The team visiting Bea & Francis'( our houskeeper & husband) church.

The team, looking good at Kerio View Lodge.

Great job well done!

Taking a break on a job well done.

Makaylah turned 16 in Kenya.

Gideon & Reuben, buds.

An inside look at the work!

Here is our Brenda crawling, look at that hand.

Team and children!

Here is another project done by the team enjoyed by all, a great new sandbox!

Here is our big boy Reuben.

Enoch in his new Chair brought by the team.


This picture has Sarah our nurse from Germany in it with all the children before she went home!


Dear Blog family, can you believe it is June 2009 already, Praise God for each and every day! Here at Tumaini Children’s Center we are busier than ever! This post will be an update adventure so buckle up and read away!
April 30th our little Joyce ( baby with cleft pallet and cleft lip along with a heart problem) flew to the US with a nurse friend to have open heart surgery just 5 days later. She came through the surgery amazingly and is now growing happily waiting for her next surgery that is to be done on her face. If all goes well she should be done with all and ready to return with us when we come back from our visit to the US in August.

She is staying with a young couple who visited Kenya in 2008 for his short residency. They met Joyce and decided they would go back to the States and find money to bring her there for what she needed. We want to thank the Zimmer’s again for all they have done along with the Rotary for Joyce.
In May we saw the exterior and interior walls go up on the new children’s home. We also were blessed with a brand new grand daughter in the Us. May 25th our daughter Brandi gave birth to Becca Capri Green. We are so happy, this makes 8 and the 2nd grandchild born while we were in Kenya so we are very excited to go and visit our growing family.

May 29th landed our first Children With Hope work team in Kenya. A team of 9 led by Shari Seagren the wife of Children with Hope’s President Thom Seagren and a board member herself arrived at Tumanini on Friday after taking a fast tour of Nakuru Game Park.

They had 12 days with us and they accomplished so much. Their objective was constructing the new house’s roof.
Trusses were measured, cut, treated, nailed together and lifted into place across the whole 75ft length of the house. Then came the blocking and nailings to screw the tin rood pieces to. There was tin roofing to be drilled for eventual screws and even some pieces put in place before they left. It was hard and tedious work at times, out in the hot Kenyan sun!

Along with Shari Seagren was another board member Shelly Daniels and then Kevin Freedson, Gideon Walker, Celeste Detwiler, Kristy Mercer, Corrie Noble and Jenn Pugh making up the whole fantastic team. When work slowed down outside and not so many hands could be used they would come inside to help lovingly diaper, feed and of course cuddle babies!

Thank you so much to the Children With Hope Team from Colorado, we appreciate you for your courage, selflessness and love that you showed all of us here at Tumaini Children’s Center, Eldoret Kenya! May God Bless you richly for this gift.
Along with work they also brought us so many needed things from the US. We just want to send our thanks & appreciation to everyone who donated these articles of clothing, bottles, diapers, food, blankets ex….. May God’s blessing be felt by all of you .

June 9th Horace & I flew to Nairobi to meet our youngest son Marvin James and his girl friend Chelan Babino for a 5 week visit. It was so great to see Marvin after his 6 month stay in the US. We also are enjoying Chelan who has felt for almost a year that she was to visit here. She feels that God may just be calling her to ministry here in Africa someday! Thank you God for calling the young and the young at heart to this continent where your heart is !

June 11th brought more great news and another reason to visit the US, our eldest Daughter Jessica Movius & her Husband Jeremy contacted us to give us the great news that our 9th grandchild Luken Robert Ray Movius had arrived safely.

Along with all the visitors and new arrivals in the family stateside we here at Tumaini are growing and thriving! Nancy turns 7 on the 20th of June ,she is very excited! Nancy is such a happy wonderful person. School goes well for her now that she has adjusted to the routine. Dema is growing and talking so well, she can say complete sentences in English and Kiswahili, not that everyone can always understand all of it but she is quite communicative. Toilet training is progressing. Dema will be 3 August 8th. At 2, Jewel is doing quite good at communicating herself, being such a little mother and very serious about how she takes care of all of us. We do wish we could get a few more smiles out of her but the ones we do get are priceless.

Maggie, at 2 years is walking now , hurrah!! She is so proud of herself for this accomplishment. Her left foot still has some difficulties coming along at times but she is so determined now that she knows she can do this! Sarah had her 1st birthday in March and Gabriel in April, they are quite the live wires and a lot like having twins. What one does not think of to do to keep us busy the other does, now that they are both walking on our toes is an understatement. Reuben 11 months is such a big boy, literally, he weighs about 30 lbs now and is taller than all the babies except Dema. Everyone says he was made to pl ay football, real football American style! All we know is that he is such a sweet little teddy bear and we love him so much. He is crawling and pulling himself up on everything, he will soon walk! Brenda is now 10months, she is so bright and she is crawling also. Her arm is doing so well! Infact miraculous! The damage done by the rats after being abandoned in an outdoor toilet would not even be noticeable if it were not for the hurried job done to stitch it back together. She is a miracle baby, but then all of them are! Their determination and fortitude always amazes us!!! God is so visible in their eyes and lives!

Now for and update on our precious Enoch! It is so amazing ( I use that word a lot don’t I) to see him grow and thrive like he has! His strength grows more and more everyday! His development is catching up quickly as he was probably delivered at least 5 weeks to soon! He eats like a small horse and is growing to match! He holds his head up very well and can be sat up on his own with help. All his motor skills seem to be working with out much delay and he is getting his 1st 2 teeth!

My right and left arms, Troyanna (12) & Dannon (10) are doing wonderful also. Growing and learning so much about what it takes to love like Jesus does, aren’t we all! What can we say for this incredible family of children God has put together but thank you Jesus you are who you say you are and we can only be who you say we are! Praise God!!!! So we all continue to grow in our faith and love for the children of Kenya and our God who loves us and them so well!

Thank you all in the biggest way for your support financially and prayerfully!! Horace & Phyllis leister in Kenya

God is good all the time!

Praise God! Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the LORD always and again I say, Rejoice! God is so good all the time, dear Blog family! We pray that you are feeling His blessings in your lives as we are feeling it here at Tumaini Chidlren‘s Center!

It has been more than a good month, it has been a fantastic month filled with God’s Glorious supply in every area!! Philippians 4: 19, Colossians 2: 6-7 … abounding therein with thanksgiving. We have many things to give thanks for this month!

It has been another month of miracles. We have received much help and new friendships, we were introduced to 2 nurses from Germany who God placed here at Tumaini strategically. Sarah & Stephanie were here to step in for Mama Phyllis when I had a sever reaction to the antibiotic prescribed to me for a sinus infection. This sent me to the hospital for a 2 day stay.



Only our loving Heavenly Father could supply so completely with timing and perfect care for the children. Our whole family had been sick, what a time for mom to be absent but God provided them with 2 private nurses who already loved them like their mom to help nurse them back to health. Also we had the help of another long time friend from home, God supplied us with so generously for more than 2 months, Breanna Holben was such a blessing during this time and all the time she was in Kenya!


And actually the trip to the hospital probably saved mama Phyllis from worse because I was badly dehydrated and did not know it, I was given 5 liters of fluids in the 1st couple of hrs of my stay! Thank you God, you make good all things! What Satan ment for evil God has made so good!

Our house keeper Bea is the wife of a Pastor ( he is working with Horace on the house) and they are very good Pastors. Bea holds a meeting for the Mamas of her church and any that want to come from their neighborhood. I mentioned this meeting once before in this blog. This is the group that Bea was passing out tins to that brought about so many provisional miricles.

This mama’s group meets at each different home, each different week so that they all know how the other is doing in each situation. This month was Bea’s turn to host the group at her home. I invited her to have the meeting in our home. The Mama’s were so amazed that I would invite them to our home! Around 30 mamas and young women came, some with children.

Most had to pay for transport which took them a month to save. It was a wonderful time to be part of what they did, they sang songs of worship ( I wish I would have been appropriate for me to tape) and songs of Praise! They lifted their hands in thanksgiving for all that God does for them. They have so little material substance and many hardships
but they have God to depend on and they are so filled with Joy!

Most could not speak English so I had an interpreter for the preaching I was invited to do! I was still a bit weak from my stay in the hospital so my part was not as lively as they are use to but a Pastor’s wife who was my interpreter gave it all she had and it was great! After all was said and done we had Chi ( which is how they fix their tea with milk and sugar) and buttered bread. The meeting lasted 2 hrs, everyone stayed to help clean up then all left with a joy filled skip in their step! We were truly filled with love and thanksgiving poured out by the Holy Spirit! I hope to do it again soon!

The children are still struggling some with sickness, it is the time of the year, is what everyone here tells us! We do not accept that time table of expected sickness! Continue to pray for us in that area because we are desiring God’s good favor to be full & complete and we all live here at Tumaini Children’Center with perfect divine health!

The children continue to grow in the blessings of God no matter what! We have had several Birthdays this year Jewel turned 2 at the end of February, Sarah Ellen 1 on the 3rd of March and Gabriel Levi turned 1 year this month on the 16th!






Enoch is doing so well he is growing and talking and laughing, he is so happy and full of the Lords Blessing too! Our little Joyce with the cleft pallet & lip and heart condition is pray fully leaving for the states on the 30th of April to receive all the donated medical services it will take to repair it all, Praise God! She will be gone for many months but then she will return, how happy we are for her, again God’s provision is miraculous!



Dema got her hair done like the big girls, she was so good, it was about a 3hr process to have braids connected to her very short curly natural hair! She is so beautiful!



The new house is coming along so well! We have had provisional miracles in this area also! Each time it looked like the work would slow down or even have to stop, God would put it on someone’s heart to give more into seeing it completed!! God’s blessings are flowing! We took the children out to inspect the work and walk on the floor of what will be their new home, they thoroughly enjoyed it!

I also had the privilege of standing on the love of our Lord and Rock when we received the news that my Father, Richard Earl Bates, passed form this world into God’s Heavenly kingdom. I appreciated all the kind word, prayers and thoughts from many of you who were aware of his passing, thank you so much! I know that God will bless you for standing strong with us at this time.



The usual emotional response is one of great loss and I have felt lonesome for his company and great smile, his way of teasing me for my idealistic way of looking at life in general but I know for sure that I have not lost him! Neither of my parents ( my mother passed in 2007) are lost to my remaining family! In 2000 through God’s Grace, He allowed us to witness and participate in both of their salvation experiences complete with their baptism!! Praise God! As I began with, God is good all the time.

We love you all so much and we hope you enjoy hearing about what is going on here at Tumaini Children’s Center. Thank you for your continuing support and prayers! Love the Horace Leister Family in Kenya!

A Miracle Month!

Wow, what a month February has been! I think I will declare the unconditional love of God and His favor at the beginning of every month! We have had so many testimonies to God's miracles around us! So I am releasing the Spirit of Prophesy in proclaiming the testimony of Jesus!

We have a new housekeeper ( described as house help here in Kenya) she has worked for us around 3 months. Her and her husband pastor a church in one of the slum areas,Heruma. This area was one of the areas most hit by the violence last year. Many sad stories, many women and children left abandoned because of a dead or just missing husband. Bea and Francis minister to these families! They are good people and good workers too, Francis has been working on the new house with Horace.

While working in our kitchen Bea noticed that we had a super surplus of 500ml tins with lids. These tins are what the babies formula comes in and we go through about 5 a week. We have used as many as we could for storing different things, Horace has used them for keeping small things in his shop but we were now storing them until we could put them in the trash pick up!

Bea asked if she could take them to her mama's group, she held on Wednesdays! I said "you sure can!" So Bea began carring a big bag of small tins home with her every week to give out to the mamas in her group. A couple weeks later she gave me this testimony!

She told me that as she walked through this area where their church is located, several women would stop her and ask her for one of these tins she was carring. They had heard that she gave them out and they were very useful because of the lid to keep commodities in. She told them she could not just give out these tins, they were a gift from God via a white mama who is caring for orphaned Kenyan children! If they wanted one of these they needed to come to the mama's group and listen to the word of God and pray with the the other mama's, then they could take one of these tins home with them.

Bea said that her group has grown so fast and she use to come and preach to the mamas but now there is no time for her to preach. After reading the word everyone wants to give their testimony on how God had intervened on their behalf to fill the tins they had received as a gift from Him at this meeting. Many are receiving Jesus as their Savior because of these experiences!

One testimony was of a mama who had no flour and could not afford to buy any. As she was passing by the local posha ( this is a small grinding mill, for making maze into corn flour) she went home with a full tin of corn flour. Bea was not sure if she was given the flour or it was just put there by God but either way it was a miracle for this family, they ate "chapati" ( small round flat bread) for dinner that night! Praise God He is so faithful to His gift of Salvation! He will even use a small throw away tin! We are so happy to be part of all that He is doing!

They are experiencing unexpected growth in their church, they are blaming it on us and the favor they see in our lives here at Tumaini Childen's Center. What a wonderful God we serve! We were just lamenting that we do not get to do any ministry outside of the day to day caring for our wonderful children but God can use a tin!

Our own personal Miraculous sign and wounder is our receiving precious baby Enoch! I went to the hospital about 2 weeks ago, just to introduce a new friend to the nursing staff there. While I was there God happened to point out to me a very small baby. I ask about him and was told that he was not well and probably would not survive. I have had enough of these experiences during the time I have been visiting this hospital for this to get my attention.

I reached down and took hold of his little hand, his skin felt just like paper he was so dehydrated. I left for a meeting with the administrator, after discussing the nursing program, I told this lady that I was interested in the baby I had seen. She smiled and said " Phyllis can you take any more" I said" we will see, all I know is he will not survive in the hospital"! My nursing Friend ,Sarah, started that evening to go to the hospital and feed Enoch.

She called me the next morning and asked me if I had found out about taking him, he was very ill and she did not think he could hang on much longer. He was born on Dec. 7Th about 6 weeks before he should have been. He was having a lot of trouble keeping his food down and the hospital staff were through giving their time trying to feed him. They had decided he would not survive and that was it.

Sarah and I thought differently, we began to pray and as most of you know got as many people as we could to pray also! Sarah went and fed Enoch little bits,even when the hospital staff told her she could not, while I got everyone here calling the DCO and telling him we had to get Enoch out of the hospital or he would die.

First he was out of town and then when he got back in he met me at the hospital to see Enoch, he agreed that he was in a bad way and needed 24hr care to survive but it turned out he was to busy that week and called to tell us that he would not be able to process Enoch's case by Thursday ( which is the usual day for these proceedings)he was to busy.

It seemed to be that and Enoch would have to hold on for another week which would be a complete physical miracle. I really felt like Horace should go down to the DCO"s office on Friday morning, he did not feel that it would do any good but he did it for me! I just felt God was up to something and Enoch was meant to come here to Tumaini and live!

Horace came back home to tell us that the DCO had talked with him and there would be a special time with the Magistrate that afternoon at 2:00, that was the beginning of the miracle, this never happens! I called the hospital and told them that they needed to have Enoch there at 2:00 sharp or we could loose this chance. Well everyone was there before 2:00, except the hospital, they got there 1hr later! Everyone was so angry, the Magistrate was furious at us! She told us to go home and come back next week at the regular time!

There were many angry words said and everyone turned to leave! The Magistrate began her regular court and dismissed us! All I could hear in my heart was satan was about to rob and steal again and this was not the will of God we were about to let happen. My mouth just opened and I pleaded with all involved to reconsider what was about to take place! Everyone just looked at me they could not believe that I was talking but then God did what He was going to do! The Magistrate stopped court and called us back into her quarters! She was angry but she did the paper work and they brought Enoch out and gave him to me! I am telling you, this never happens, and everyone knew it! We were all in aw! God will do what He purposes,we must stand with Him!!!! Enoch is here and he is thriving! Along with the rest of our miracle babies, 10 now!

Just one more testimony! Remember my Nursing friend Sarah? She has been helping out here a few hrs week. On Wednesday she felt like she was not to come, I had felt the day before led to give her a stethoscope we had here. She was so please, she never felt she would ever have one of her own! That Wednesday she got to use it like we never imagined! A young woman came to her house, she was in labor. She wanted help because she thought she was only 7 months and did not know if it was real labor or not. Sarah used her new stethoscope to listen how the baby was doing during the contractions, all of a sudden the heart beat went real faint and then it was gone. The babies heart beat just stopped. They called a midwife, she could not find a heart beat either. Everyone was getting really worried! The mom continued to labor.

They decide to take her to the hospital, all the time praying, praying, praying! The Dr. could not find a heart beat and he said the baby was most likely dead but the mother would have to continue giving birth to get the babies body out. You can imagine how my fiend and the mother felt but they continued to pray through out the delivery, never a heart beat! When the baby was born everyone gasp, he opened his eyes and began to cry! He was alive and just seconds before his birth there was no heart beat! Mother and child are doing wonderully and my fiend who has never before experienced a miracle.

I hope you all are praising God with me and declaring His unending love in all our impossible situations! Keep praying, Glory to God! We love and appreciate all of you so much! Love the Leister Family in Kenya