The medical team is on the truck headed North. We will spend the night in Marsabit, and tomorrow we will drive another 8 hours or so, going through the Chalbi Desert to Dukana
The EPI medical arrived safely in Kenya. In the morning, we will begin sorting the meds and glasses. All the luggage made it. Thx for prayer and support of EPI. You have enabled this trip.
The EPI Medical team is on their way to Kenya. The Whitney family(Colorado), has made it to Philadelphia and will soon leave for London. Steph, Laurie, and Gary, from Maine, are in Boston getting ready to go to London. When we get to NBO, we will meet with Jo, from Hong Kong.
I’m off to Bangladesh now. I’ll arrive at my destination on Saturday and start teaching on Sunday. We will be restarting the Frontline Theology program. (Photo: Bangladesh graduation 2023) Posted by PCE
We arrived at the LifeWay Mission Center at 1 AM on Saturday morning. It was pouring rain all night. On Saturday we got busy sorting through the medicines. (Colleen and Tracy dividing the meds for each clinic day).
We begin our first project of the year today. We will be in Kenya with church, planting medical clinics, and Frontline Theology, then we will be in Rwanda with Frontline.
In Feb, Dave Schlup taught the first half of Block 1, and now I will teach the next half. The training is being taught in Spanish, but the students speak their own tribal languages as well. So they transfer the material to their tribes, teaching unreached groups of people. 2/2
This coming Monday, August 14, I (Phil) will leave for Pucallpa, Peru to conduct another Frontline training. We have been doing things a bit differently in Peru. Instead of teaching 8 subjects in 5 days as in our other fields, we have been doing 4 subjects in 3 days in Peru. 1/2
June, Kenya: A unique traditions of the Gabra people is that when they slaughter a goat for a meal, they give the guests present, a bracelet made out of the freshly slaughtered skin. It’s a tremendous honor to be given one of these bracelets.
June, Kenya: The clinics are sometimes far enough away that the team arrives back in the dark, making it necessary to prepare the evening meal with lamps under the clear starry sky. The photo is not enhanced. Take a look at the two constellations.
The Gabra in Kenya number about 145k, with only 3% evangelical believers. Ten years ago, that number was practically nil. After a decade of work with Lifeway, we are making progress among them. (Photo: The wooden brace on this woman’s head designates that she is married)
Due to some new government regulations, or five days of medical clinics have been reduced to three. We are grateful for being able to treat 602 people in those three days.