Givogi. Kakamega. Kapsoi. Kapkoi. Goibei.

What are they? Results of an explosion in a Scrabble factory?

Or a Swedish Secret Service encrypted file?

Or a South American opticien’s eye-chart?

No, these are the locales of sessions that are being set up in the near future, following the exciting reaction of those who attended our seminar last week.

We are busy.

Thanks for keeping us in mind. Blessings.

Ken & Marge MacGowan

May 7, 10:20 am The District Education official studies our material, and authorizes a 1-day seminar for May 15.
May 15 at 8:05 am Still no word about the seminar. Then a text message arrives – the teachers are coming.
8:17 Ken cuts his hand opening a gate. It only hurts when he thinks. Consequently, he is not in much pain.
8:30 A worker rides off to the village to get the key to the lecture hall.
8:35 Ken reminds the workers to have the generator ready, full of fuel.
9:50 We are about to start, with 49 teachers showing up, having learned of the seminar the previous evening.
9:51 The power goes off. The generator is still locked up. When the key is found, there is no gas.
10:15 The generator is working, the powerpoint slide show is wowing the crowd, and we are underway.
10:56 The power comes on. So the generator is turned off. So the projector goes off. We wait
11:11 Oh yes, Do the teachers have money for lunch? Nope. Not one. Marge begins to scrounge for food.
12:07 Traffic noise interrupts the seminar. It is the only vehicle to pass the mission station during the seminar.
12:10 A cow interrupts the seminar.
2:30 A delicious meal is served to the surprised but grateful teachers, who are buzzing about our seminar.
3:45 We wind up the day, and receive exciting feedback about future invitations

Thank you for making such a great day possible!
Ken & Marge MacGowan

Recently while driving back from Sherry’s school we noticed once again how hard it is to get reliable workers. Some baboons were manning a zebra crossing. It’s a good thing that the zebras weren’t crossing, but an oryx shot across the road in front of us, and I wondered what Children’s Aid would have said.

At least we have reliable workers, and it is encouraging to see how all 10 families maintaining the mission station are helping prepare for the crowd next Tuesday. Your support makes it possible for us to hire them…..rains are late this year, and hunger is a real problem all around us. Our team is well taken care of. Thanks.

God bless.

Ken & Marge MacGowan

It was only 10 days ago.

We realized our residential school enrollment was down. We could not have our 13-week course.

So, we prayed. And compiled a 1-day seminar. To take to schools.

Oops. When we visited the District Education Office, the DEO listened to our presentation, and surprised us. He insisted that the Vice-Principal and Senior teacher from all 58 schools near us attend our 1-day seminar.

Next Tuesday.

Thanks for praying. This is just the beginning………

Ken & Marge MacGowan