23 March, 2012

Now with the Lord...


Mama Susan was a pioneer mother/caregiver at Rafiki Village Kenya.  She took care of 13 boys and raised them well.  Her oldest Rafiki son had many issues due to the fact that he was brought to Rafiki at the age of five.  To hear him speak about Mama Susan as the "best mother" who was "a kind woman, who loved us"; and his memories of "Mom singing lullabies for us to sleep" and how she "taught us to read the Bible and pray"; and to see him as a man carrying his mom's coffin to the grave, was a testimony to her work and prayers for her children at Rafiki.  


What I remember about Mama Susan was her love of singing and her method of doing devotions with her children.  On a devotion about how Elijah was fed by ravens during a famine, she told the children to imagine that the ravens were flying into the king's palace (where there was plenty of food) and taking the bread and meat off the king's table and carrying it to Elijah in the desert.  She asked the children if they could see the ravens doing that; and they could.

Mama Susan is resting in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom she loved.  She worked tirelessly for Him in her calling as a Rafiki Mom and we can begin to see the fruit of her labor even today.  Please pray for the boys who have lost the only mother they have ever known.

02 March, 2012

Just listening to the radio...

Heard about this on the radio this morning.  I thought how amazing it would be if we had this in the USA.  I wonder how many who claim to be lovers of Christ in the USA would be able to live Romans 1:16 in this way; "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God to salvation..."



So maybe you are not in Nairobi to join in the marathon, but you could support their projects to translate bibles into the mother tongues of unreached communities of Kenya.  In country claiming to be 80% Christian these tribes are mostly Islamic or Anamist and destined for eternal destruction.


From the radio program, I heard the following from people who hear and read the Bible in their own language:


"I can read Kiswahili and English, but it's not as if it's my mother tongue."


"Jesus speaks my language!"

"When I hear God's words in mother tongue, I can see it with my heart."


Let's not be ashamed!  Mark 8:38 "If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."