Meeting the babies!

When the New Life team first arrived at the baby center we walked around the corner and several of the kids were lined up at the fence wanting to be held. I had warned the group that I wanted to take a tour of the baby center BEFORE we played with the kids. The last several trips we didn't do that and sometimes never got around to taking a tour. When the kids saw us and our team saw them; it was all over! Maybe next trip we can take the tour when we first arrive!

New Life Team Picture

Peter Video - June 2009

This is the video where we tried to get Peter to talk.

Peter - June 2009

This is the video where Peter was trying to get Monica to listen.

Peter - June 2009

This is the video where Peter gets tickled!

New Life Team

Sarah's laugh

This short video of Sarah in the nursery is one of my favorites. This was taken our last night at the baby center with the team from New Life.

If you would like to follow the current team's updates please click on "Meet The Babies" link on the right.

Generous Donors

The generosity of people, some of whom are complete strangers, always amazes me! As a team from New Life Fellowship prepares to go to Kenya in June, supplies are being amassed to take with them. The baby center is in desperate need of boys size 3T to 4T clothing. When I stopped at the New To You children's resale shop in Wakarusa, I was a little disappointed because all they had out was summer clothes. Great for around here but not so much in Kenya where they are in their winter months. I found a few things that would work and took them up to the front. When Sharla asked me if I found every thing I was looking for, I explained that it was going to be hard to find what I needed because Kenya will be cold and rainy! She then took me to the back and told me to pick out whatever I wanted from the leftover winter clothes - FREE OF CHARGE! There were quite a few things we could use and I so appreciate her willingness to give these to the babies in Africa. I know she would have been able to sell most of those things next fall, but how wonderful that in a few weeks, a cold little child in Kenya will receive warm and comfortable clothes! She also told me she didn't have any plastic pants to fit over diapers but Calico Point just outside of town did. When my husband went to check it out, the salesperson told him she could order the 200+ pants he wanted and she would give them to him at price! He told her she needed to make something because we would more than likely be back many times over the years! God's people responding with their gifts to babies they don't even know makes my heart sing! Thank you to both of these ladies and to the many, many unnamed donors who share so freely. May God bless you richly!!

Moses (Mo Mo) - March 2009

Dana Jacobs took these pictures of Mo Mo when she was at the baby center with the NMC work team. Mo Mo continues to be a joy to all who are around him. He is mischevious but he also has a loving heart and a content personality! He is surely one of the baby center's true blessings! (The top photo is Mo Mo with team member Mike Thompson).

Go God!

God is showing up in an amazing way again in regards to the Kenya Baby Center. We just received a letter from Jeff Stanfield, current director of the baby center, that said they were running dangerously low in funds! It was a little over a month ago that the "adopt-a-baby" program was started at our church. And just this week the first check was sent over to the baby center. His timing is always perfect! Often we worry about things that are in the future, but God doesn't often give us what we need way ahead of time. He wants us to rely on Him and He will provide what we need just when we need it! I understand that more needs to be done! But I praise God for all of you who listened when God called you to give to His little ones in Kenya. You came thru at just the right time! YOU are a part of HIS perfect timing and a blessing to the baby center. God has big plans for the children in Kenya and He wants YOU to play a big part in the history of this place! Thanks for giving from the heart!

"For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help.
He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death."

Psalm 72:12-13