TRAVELING IS OFTEN DIFFICULT IN THE VILLAGE

Jeremy and the team went to visit a widow one day to minister to her and take her some gifts.  The roads in the village - sometimes called roads, but not really; especially in the rainy season - are often quite bad.  Even the main roads during a heavy rainy season.  Often they stay that way for awhile, for the only way to sort them out is for the government to come in with heavy equipment and resurface them.  By that we mean they grate the road and, if the people are fortunate, they will also add more dirt to it.  
Here is a photo of one of the secondary "roads" in the village.  

Often, it is only possible to get relatively close to the home we are visiting.  When they arrived near to the place Jeremy took a clever photo of his finger touching the place they were going.  You can see the glint of the tin roof on the house. Typical!.  A long way to walk through the bush!  

BUT - they had to first go through a daunting obstacle to get over there.  We often must have a guide to get us to the place we need to go.  In the picture below, you can see the guide going across the creek ahead of the rest of the team.  (I never asked if she made it!)

All in a typical day's work when visiting Kadawa.  Challenging and great fun, and great blessings!


​WATER HARVESTING
Keep in mind, the water in that creek is used to wash clothes, to bathe, to water the livestock, and to drink.  We are doing water-harvesting projects by putting tanks next to homes to catch rainwater off roofs.  It is clear, and readily drinkable (it's best to boil it first, but we don't always).  Sometimes we put extra large ones at one home in a compound and the owner shares it with the rest of the folks that live in the compound.  Here is an example.  Not of one we did, but it was our prototype.

WE WANT TO BLESS YOU ALL.  Thank you for your prayers, friendship and love!

​John & Marty

UPDATE ON THE WIDOWS' FARM
Our Jeremy and wife, Penny along with their daughter and son-in-law have recently returned from the Widows' Farm and Kadawa. We have lots of photos. I'll update you on things bit-by-bit.
On Sept. 25 Tobias, our farm manger (Johnfred's half-brother) sent us a photo of folks planting the maize crop. For some reason, only a few came out, so it took two days to plant the field. We were praying for some good rain.
When Jeremy arrived on Oct. 8 he had a photo taken of the maize which was among the best of all the local farms. There was some proper rain while he was there and he took a photo 10 days later in the same spot. What a difference! Actually, it rained so fast & hard in Kisumu that there was a flood. Kisumu is about 20 miles from Kadawa and it is common to rain in town, but not in the village. 
Finally, here is a photo of Rose's new house. The team went inside and prayed for the house and Rose, and gave her some gifts. The outside and inside walls aren't finished yet. They must thoroughly dry. Then the home group will come and help rose "plaster" it with a mixture of mud and some dung. It will be quite smooth.
We're sorry to say that all of the chickens caught a disease and died. Oh dear! It was a good effort.
We are so thankful to have Jeremy managing the farm and for Tobias, Eric, Leonard and Belinda operating it, and all the prayer and financial support from our friends and other loved ones. 
God is good. We are blessed. The widows are blessed.
We bless you all!