Leister's Kenyan Life

Merry Christmas 2012 Notice our 2 new gifts for Christmas? Felix 10/30/2012  and  Alex 11/5/2012 Christmas Eve we were visited by some very welcome guests.  Santa's Helpers Sarah Ellen & Dino with cookies and gifts!  Thank you! And also the gift of song from Testimony Faith Homes.  Thank you too!   As we prepared for Christmas we made personal ornaments sent to us by Jessie Schmidt! Thank you Jessie!  We got all dressed up! With a bit of attitude! Christmas Eve was a great day of celebrating with family and friends! Josh Tekoa and Eliza! Samuel and Rachel. We got to open our Christmas Eve present! We bowed our heads in Thanks to God and opened our Christmas Gifts! And then we ate together, it was a great day!  Sorry this was late but everything here depends on conditions at the time!  Than...

On November 15th 2012 we Graduated our Top Class from Kindergarten to Primary.  We had three students who will be promoted to 1st grade Jewel, Sarah, Dama.  We are so proud of them!  After walking through their official evaluations the reports were fantastic and each were awarded their pass.       Gabriel will continue on with the Top Class 2013. Our very good friends and Pastors here in Kenya Nim & Prishilla Masu were here to join us in giving  encouraging words to the present and future students.      Several came to encourage and congratulate!       Pastor Nim shared from Proverbs 20:10 showing the children from God's word that even children are know by their good deeds.  The children really heard this word and repeated it to me later reminding me of what was said.    Shining Light Pre-School student body ( except Gabe, who wanted nothing to do with ...

  Hi everyone, we thought we would send you a smile today with our update on things happening here at Tumaini , God is so good! Our weather has been oddly cool and rainy which is great for the greenery, vegies and fruit but not so good for playing outside and puppy whelping.   With all the rain you would think water would be no problem but not the case here!  We have had a large growth of residents here in the Eldoret area, water has become a big problem, not enough city water to go around. Because of low water our 50 year old house has had some major problems.  Horace has changed out our major attic tank and numerous plumbing situations through out the house.  Needless to say we have been living a full African life with bucket baths and pritty much bucket everything!  Praise God we have been able to catch the rain water in our 2500 liter outdoor storage tank to fill the buckets! ...

Introducing our sweet Baby Abagael ( Gael )         Gael was abandoned at the hospital, found just laying in the hall way.  She is estimated to be around 4 months. You would not know this by her size, Gael weighs 3.4 kgs and is only 19 inch tall.  She has had some breathing problems we think caused by allergies.              This was the greetings she received when she got home. All her brothers and sisters were so excited to see her.  Even her closest in age Thomas ( 17 months ), he just had to give her a kiss!            She is such a sweet baby!         And so loved!   Thank you everyone praying for Baby Abagael and all of us at Tumaini Children's Home where we are dedicated to building family and home!  Please continue to consider sponsoring one of our children, several are still availab...

    A continuing walk of Faith!           " Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.  By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." Hebrews 11:1-3     We believe God is providing for us a good testimony here in Kenya!  We had some wonderful friends from the states come by Tumaini Children's Home this week. Ray & Geri Tucker, Linda Freeman & Rick Parsons came with this scripture and to pray with us and encourage us on our next step of faith.  At the beginning of October God opened a door of opportunity for us to purchase the land and house you see below.              The house has 7 bedrooms, 6 baths,...