Dear Prayer Partners,
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| The Kimpur Famly |
Greetings in the mighty name of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
Our family is doing great. The year, 2011, has been an eventful one for both our family and the greater Daylight community, which is, in effect, our extended family. We have seen the lord remain faithful in protecting and providing for the Daylight’s kids’ ministry and also our family. During the year, the lord has brought us many visitors and guests – most of them were locals on the move and who needed a place to spend a night or two. A couple of the visitors were Daylight’s visiting friends: Rachel Finsaas (MN), Lauren Soderstrom (MN), Megan Green (CA), Michael McCranie (FL), and David Maus (MN/Uganda). We are thankful to God for bringing us the so many guests into our family circle and we consider it a blessing.
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| Mama Daylight |
As I write, we are full-house, for all of the children who have been attending their respective schools are back home for Christmas holiday. Angelina (aka Mama Daylight), my wife who prides herself as a mother of the so many children at Daylight, 157 and counting ( who knows, may be the Guinness book of records may someday in the future recognize her so), is now even busier with a bustling house. When most of the kids are out for school, Angelina has been kept busy at Daylight serving as a matron. She makes sure the children have eaten, washed and dressed up well. Indeed, we recently took an end-of-year family photo and it looked great having the whole family together. The children, on the other hand, have been doing well in their schooling:
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| Christine Arupe |
Chelain Rael, 20, - our adopted child and who assumes the position of the family’s first born, just graduated from High school (grade 15) in her school in Tororo, Uganda. Rael started schooling relatively late and we thank God for seeing her through High school. She is poised to start college sometime next year for a vocational training as a nurse.
Christine Arupe, 17, - She lost both parents and ended up staying with our family. Chrisitne’s mom died, as we watched, sometime in September 2010. Her mom’s wish to our family was that we help take care of Christine and that we should keep her in school. During my visit to the US in the fall last year, I shared Christine’s story with Joyce Schwartz. Joyce offered to find a friend to help with Christine’s fees (some US $ 400 per school term). She did. And Christine was able to continue with her schooling. We thank God for Joyce for helping see Christine stay in school that otherwise was going to drop out of school due to lack of parental support. Indeed, Christine who attends Moi Girls’ High School, Kabartonjo in Baringo, Kenya, will be in grade 12 next year, and so will be a candidate to sit for exams at the end of the year.
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| From Left: Grace, Rael and Lauren |
Grace Kakuko, 12, - Grace (not her original name, but a name given to her by Lauren Soderstrom) also puts up with our family. Lauren Soderstrom while on a casual walk during her visit in Alale ran into Grace. At the time, Lauren discovered that Grace had pus oozing from one of the ears. And it looked really bad. As we found out, Grace was an orphaned child. We decided to get the kid to Kapenguria – and she has since got treatment and has realized a full recovery. While in Kapenguria, Lauren decided that it would be cool to consider a special name for the kid, and “Grace” was the name that she settled on. Everyone now calls her by the "Grace". The whole encounter was, indeed, an act of Grace - or is it a "chain of grace?" And I think Lauren put in some good thinking in coming up with the name for the little girl from the nomad world. And so let’s thank God for Lauren who met Grace, and who in turn helped raise funds to get treatment for her. Grace is scheduled to start classes at Daylight next January.
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| Roselyn |
Chelimo Roselyn, 16, - she is joining grade 11 next January, 2012. She attends school in one of the best Girls’ High school in Kampala, Uganda – The Trinity College, Nabbingo. Roselyn is a straight ‘A’ student and she an assortment of trophy paraph
ernalia to show for it. She is also active in athletics, a national schools’ soccer player and a marathoner. We thank God for the family of Pete and Lu Welch for helping with Roselyn’s school fees.
Chepkite (aka Cherotich) Milka, - our second born who just turned 14, completed grade 7 this year at the Jerusalem Christian School in Chepareria, West Pokot. And she will be a candidate next year, 2012. She will be sitting for National comprehensive exams in November, 2012. We thank God for the family of the JA and Joyce (aka Kama Ridley) Schwartz for helping with her school fees all along.
Chenangat Leah, 12, - she came 7th position in the end- of -year class rankings. And she will be joining grade 5 come January, 2012. We thank God for the family of Joyce Schwartz for helping with Leah’s school fees.
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| Nelson |
Yatich Nelson, 9, - Nelson who is an avid soccer player and a crazy soccer fan ( read a devout Manchester United fan) graduated from grade 2 and will be joining grade 3 next January, 2012. He sees other boys his age with bikes, and in turn has been asking for one, time and again. Though, we have not had the opportunity to get him one, we tell him to continue praying about it “until something happens.” He is grateful, all the same, for he is attending school whereas the so many Pokot boys his age who are out tending cows and face the risk of running into the hands of the marauding cattle-rustlers, and therefore do not have the opportunity to go to school just as he does. Of course Daylight is a novel attempt to give a handful of those nomad children the rare opportunity to access schooling and turn over a new page for themselves and the nomad communities. We are thankful to God for the Joyce Schwartz family for helping with Nelson’s school fees at AIC Bendera School, Kapenguria.
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| Naomi |
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| Little China |
Chesang Naomi Sheila, 7 - just graduated from 1st grade. Come January, 2012, she will be joining grade 2. Sheila is the most talkative and free-spirited one in the family. She enjoys performing dances, poetry, singing games at home and at school where she has so perfected her art to the national level – and has received a number of performance awards. Her two great friends at school are Naomi Arupe and Mercy Kangusur, both in her class. We thank God for the Joyce Schwartz family for helping with Sheila’s school fees.
Little China (Joshua Ruto), - the last born and will be 1 next January the 16th. He has been nick-named “China” – and how the name came about is a story for another day. He was recently taken ill for chronic Malaria. We thank God for healing China man.
As a family we are thankful to God for the breakthroughs we have realized this year, and I will highlight the following:
As a family we are thankful to God for the breakthroughs we have realized this year, and I will highlight the following:
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| Family House under construction |
Family House (Margie Smith’s House) – our family house is under construction. We have been living on a two roomed hut just off Kapenguria Township, and it has been quite stressing to house the family and take in the visitors who swing by. So far US $5000 (a generous contribution from Margie Smith and family, FL) has been used to get the house to the lintel/rim beam level. Roofing and finishing is awaiting and some US $5000 or so is needed to complete the construction. We would love to move in as soon as it is possible, we can’t wait to be there, and so join us in prayers for the funds to see the completion of this project.
Dairy Cow- We’ve got a dairy cow for the family. And we thank God for Michael McCranie and family for blessing our family with the dairy cow. We now have a steady source of milk, serving our family and also Daylight. We hope to have an additional or two dairy cows in the near future to meet milk demands for the family and at the greater Daylight family.
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| Our Truck's Engine undergoing repairs |
Truck for the Ministry – we have had a truck (a 1993 Toyota Hillux) that was purchased by Michael McCranie and family in 2007 to facilitate the Outreach ministry in the nomad world. We have been able to do lots more with the truck: getting visiting friends from the Capital Nairobi to Daylight, getting supplies for the children, rushing sick kids who medical attention to hospitals, and most of all, providing general mobility in the day-to-day chores at Daylight. Conversely, the truck, of late, breaks down quite so often. And we feel it is time we think of another dependable truck. Join us in praying for a breakthrough in 2012 for a new truck, preferably a Toyota Land-Cruiser given the tough terrain of Pokot and the nomad region.
Trip to the States – I was planned to visit the US in the month of October, 2011. Unfortunately, a change in Visa requirements caused the postponement of the trip – which might be sometime early next year. Do join us in prayer for this trip, and that the lord will lead the way in the Visa processing with the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The Embassy wants me to have an R1 visa instead of the regular B1 visa which I normally use to visit the Sates. The processing of an R1 visa is a slow and a demanding one. With God’s guidance it will come together and that I can make the visit to the Sates.
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| This is Daylight, Pokot, Kenya |
Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas, and a blessed new year, 2012 – Right from our family and the Daylight community to yours, is our warm festive greetings to you. We want to wish you a merry Christmas and a blessed new year, 2012. Thank you for the regular prayers and partnering with us this year, and we hope and pray for your continued partnership and prayers in the coming year, 2012. We have made ourselves available for the lord to use us and our family as vessels in His greater purpose and Kingdom. In turn, the lord has brought so many of you in our way to make things happen – so many orphaned children, of diverse tribal backgrounds, need someone to be there for them so bad. And at Daylight, these children find a new place to call home, a safe place to live, and a rare opportunity to attend school together and grow up physically, mentally and in the Knowledge of Him.
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| Daylight Kids Showing off their candies |
At the end of the day, we are optimistic these little and lovely children will overwhelmingly impact their cultures for Christ. We thank God for placing us right here, at this point in time, to make a difference in the lives of these children. It’s like lighting up a candle, and with your continued prayers, we hope to light up a thousand of such candles in the nomad world now overshadowed by so many ills … and indeed, let’s together let light, “… shine before [them], that they may see… and praise your Father in heaven,” (Mat 5:16, NIV).Amen!
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