Kenya Baby Center "adoptions" - Comment from a new "mama"

Hello little Precious Angel! I am so glad to have "adopted" you until you can find a home with a wonderful family in your country. I will pray for you little one often (daily at least). As I look at your "precious" little face I think how God loves you and will keep you safe.
Love mamaPam

Peter - March 2009

These pictures were taken by Dana Jacobs when she was in Kenya with the March NMC Work Team.

Adopted!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

We showed this video during the morning services today. It was a celebration of all that God has done and is doing in Kenya. We also introduced our "adopt a child" program today! Praise God around 250 cards were taken! There are still a few cards left and will be available next Sunday. Also those who asked for specific children, those cards will be available next week as well. Thank you to all of you who followed God's leading and "adopted" the beautiful babies of the AGC Baby Center. Thanks, too, to Jodi Polhemus, Brent & Joan High, Pete & Tina Carpenter & Stephanie Wong for manning the table!

2009 03 Kenya Team Picture

Front Row: Sharon Thompson, Dana Jacobs
Middle Row:  Talia Jacobs, Carson Jacobs
Back Row: Mike Thompson, Dan Jacobs

Water Truck and Well House

Planting Trees

We went to the Salgaa Water Project today, March 20, and planted fruit trees. We prayed over the first one as Shadrack showed us the proper way to plant in Kenya. We planted Orange trees, Mangos, Passion, Apples, strawberries. Shadrack is also planning to plant watermelons, tomatoes, and bananas. We are so blessed to have been a part of this very important step in making the baby center self-sufficient. Thank you to all of you who have been so faithfull in supporting the baby center, the water project, and the land at Salgaa.
Dan


What an amazing day! This morning we planted trees at the water project land. Then Helen Koech, the wonderful lady that we purchased the land from, had the team, Margie and Billy Fuller over for lunch. After taking the team back to the baby center, I took Sammy, Mwangi, and Shadrack out to the water project. We prayed together over the well and went over the business plan. It was a very moving time joining with the Kenyan men and getting them going on bringing water to the baby center. Thank you to Jamie and Bernie for their work on bringing this project to fruition.
The truck is at the weldng shop having it's tank installed today. We will be moving water next week!!!!
Thank you to the donors of the water project, God has blessed us with water, and the Kenyans to get the job done here! Our God is an awesome God!!

Thank you to all that donated to the water project, God has blessed your faithfulness.

Dan Jacobs

Tree Planting Pictures

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.