Team #12 comments

Here are some comments from team members who are currently at the baby center:

I love playing with the babies. Carson Jacobs


The Baby Center is amazing! The babies are so cute, and their stories are incredible. When you hold them and think about all the things they've gone through, it's a perfet picture of God's love and protection. I absolutely love being at the Baby Center and I am so thankful that I got to come again! I'm going to have to move here and adopt about 15 of them! (like...Davey, Joshua, Paul, Noah...)

Talia Jacobs


It is so amazing how the Kenyan kids are so happy and excited about the littlest things, like bubbles, while most kids in the USA need entertainment all the time to be happy.

Bethany Moore


I have been having an amazing time in Kenya getting to know the Kenyan culture. The babies at the baby center are great! They are fun to play with. I am trying to learn all of the babies names, I am very close, too. Meshack is calling me Uncle Isaac.

Isaac Moore

Comments from team members

We have had such a wonderful time being able to play with the babies. They all love attention so we've really tried to focus on doing things with them as a group and also separately. We've colored, read books, played with sidewalk chalk, playdough, and painted at the learning center.

The older babies like MoMo, Davey, Margie, Meshack and Moses Cheptim are so talkative. They repeat everything you say. And the newest babies, Immanuel, Jesse, John, Paul, Precious and Isaiah are all so sweet. It is so good to know the love and care they are now receiving and they are continuing to grow stronger.

We've also been working very hard organizing, cleaning and painting. More projects are planned for the coming days.

We have a great group here with us and everyone is going to have a very hard time leaving on Monday. We are trying to figure out how to fit babies in our GI 101 backpacks...

Dana Jacobs


Being at the Baby Center has been a great blessing. It's exciting to see the babies walk, talk and giggle! What an encouragement to see the new babies. It's a blessing to see the significant improvements on the building. We enjoy staying here and spending more time with the babies.

Mike and Sharron Thompson:


Tuesday evening I went to take a picture of the babies sitting all together on one blanket -- I ended up staying and sitting with them as they sang "Jesus Loves Me" and "Jesus is My Savior" under the stars. The Kenyan care-givers are so good with these babies. Praise God for He rescues the destitute and orphaned! Psalm 9:18

Rochelle Moore

Team #12 has arrived!

The latest work team from NMC has arrived at the baby center. Dan & Dana Jacobs are leading this team. Other NMC team members include Talia and Carson Jacobs, Mike and Sharon Thompson. The first morning they headed with some of the older toddlers to the learning center and spent some time doing organized activities. The kids loved it! With most of the work done on the center, this team will focus a lot of attention on the babies and making use of the learning center. There will be a few maintenance type items and some other work to do. But spending time with the babies will be their main focus. Hopefully their insight and increased funding will lead to a permanent position for someone to organize activities for the kids everyday. God is so good and he continues to bless the baby center and those who pour their hearts into it!

Faith has a new home

Faith was picked up to come to the baby center at the same time as another little girl. When they arrived to pick them up though they realized that they had two very sick little girls. In fact, they did not even bring them back to the baby center but took them straight to the hospital. The other baby died at the hospital but with much concentrated effort (and lots of prayer), Faith survived. She still was very ill though and it was later determined that she had cerebral palsy. As a baby center that focuses on adoption, we were not planning on taking any children with long-term health problems. Faith was so tiny and vulnerable though and no one wanted to send her away. At the baby center Faith grew and was able to do many things doctors thought she would never do. They took her off the feeding tube and she learned to eat on her own. She was able to somewhat follow voices with her eyes. She was even learning to roll over. Recently one of the missionaries was able to get a wheelchair for her so that it was easier for her to be taken for physical therapy and for her to just feel more involved in the actions of the other kids. The social worker at the baby center heard of a place in Nairobi that took care of kids with disabilities. It was started by Mother Theresa. Irene determined that this would be a good place for Faith to continue to receive the care she needed. We will all miss her, but pray that God will continue to prompt those who will now take care of her to give her all the love and support she has become accustomed to.

Margret - February 2009

Jeremy & Nicole Greenlee posted some new photos of some of the babies at the baby center. Top picture Margret (on left) with her best friend Lucy. Bottom picture: Margret playing hide and seek.

Sarah - February 2009

Jeremy & Nicole Greenlee posted some new pictures of some of the babies at the baby center.

Jamie's Pictures from trip in January

Paul - January 2009

Jamie took this picture of Paul when he visited the baby center in January of 2009. Paul is now about 4 months old.

Returning from Kenya

As I sit in the airport ready to head home I have some exciting things to tell you:

AGC Church under Meshack Habib will be a significant contributor to the baby center.

Jeff Stanfield will fill the directors role while Staci is home. Jeff has been at Tenwek for several years and has a passion for the baby center. He will be a great addition to the staff.

Jeremy Greenlee had his first guitar "gig" this morning at church and was great. Pastor Habib stated he was the best he has heard on the guitar.

Nicole Greenlee is getting her feet wet with all the nursing care these little ones need. Priscilla has taken her under her wing and they will make a great team.

I met with more people in a short time than I have ever met before. From WGM to AGC I think I know them all on a first name basis. The relationships we are building will help ensure the future of the baby center.

While the numbers don't show it yet the number of Kenyan families inquiring about adoption is increasing. If we can ever convince the Kenyan government to move quicker we would be adopting more babies than ever. Pray for change in Kenya.

Keep the fire hot for this ministry as YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

Jamie
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Greetings from Kenya!

Greetings from warm Kenya. I want to bring you up to date with what's happening. The water tests all have come back great. We are approved to deliver water that is ready to drink!!! Billy Fuller and I went truck shopping on Thursday and have some good leads on a vehicle. Construction of the well house will begin within a few weeks. We are hoping to deliver water to the baby center by March 1st! PTL!
Jeremy and Nicole Greenlee traveled with me to Kenya and will call the Baby Center home for the next year. They have been such an encouragement to me. To watch a young married couple step out in faith is just awesome. They will serve the baby center well. Keep them in your prayers.
Margie has been such a blessing to so many of us. She is steady, reliable and genuine. Her apartment looks like her. Very warm and inviting. She has made significant changes as to how money is spent and recorded. She is setting this ministry up to be sucessful for the long term. She will be a great mentor for the Greenlee's.
Staci appears ready to head home shortly on furlough. Wycliff has been approved to travel to the states. It has been a long haul for both of them to get him approved. I can't wait for many of you to meet them. Staci has served the lost children of Kenya in a manner few of us could. She has poured years of sweat and tears into these precious lives and we are seeing the fruit of her labor. Pray for Staci and Wycliff. Pray for a great homecoming, for rest and for Gods leading.
As for the 29 bundles of joy currently here. They are full of life. They wear me out and I LOVE IT! When I look at each one I see life, joy and opportunity in their eyes. I believe its God's way of assuring us that what we are doing in Kenya is worth every dollar spent, of every mile flown, of every dusty mile traveled, of every tear shed. We are commanded to finish the race well. With your continued support we can finish strong!
Thanks for all your love and support for the baby center.

Jamie Lengacher

YOU SHOULD NOT GO TO THE BABY CENTER!

You should not go to the Baby Center if:

1. you aren't willing to step out of your comfort zone.
2. you don't want your heart stolen.
3. you don't want to be greeted with "auntie" or "uncle" every time the babies see
you.
4. you don't want God to change your priorities.
5. you don't want your heart broken.
6. you can't hold six babies at once or aren't willing to give it a try.
7. you don't want to make new friends with your fellow team members.
8. you don't want God to use you in a huge way for the "forgotten" babies.
9. you don't want God to use the babies to teach you a lesson or two.
10. you want to come home being the same person who left.
11. you don't want to fall in love with every beautiful baby there.



Tracy

(written by Tracy Bussard - member of work team #11)