June 2011 Hello Partners in the Service of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! It is our prayer that each of you are well and serving Christ in every way that He reveals to you. What an honor and tremendous blessing to be emailing you and telling you what we see God doing in this great country of Kenya. We feel and know and Christ is doing much more that we do not see or recognize at this time. We believe that sometime in the future, however, we will see more of His greatness or either be like the prophet Isaiah who never saw a lot of his prophecies come to pass but others saw them come true years later. We have had a wonderful time serving Christ this month with fellow believers from the USA and from here in Kenya. We have had a medical team from the USA come and work with us for 2 of the weeks. They are left to right - Nick Miller, Denise Aludo, Alex Miller, Joanna Cassidy, Kay CollierPitman, Paula Nichols, Dr. Eric Kerley, (Pastor William from here in Kenya) Connie Holbert, and Geraldine McKenry kneeling, Don Nichols not shown is taking the picture. We had a team of Maasai translators who worked diligently and translated for us each day. Each and every one was such a blessing to the people by having such servant’s hearts, revealing the love of Christ in their actions, sharing Jesus, and praying with the people one on one. During the medical camps people prayed to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior, also people’s lives were changed who were not serving Christ or going to church. We saw people realize how the Americans gave up their time and finances to serve Christ so they saw the need to do the same. We had two new women who had walked extremely long distances come to our Saturday Women’s Bible Study. We want to thank the team for giving us many new clothes, not only for ourselves but for the people as well. They brought many snacks, which we are still enjoying on a day to day basis. It was such a blessing to have them in our home joking and just having good ole belly laughs together. They truly ministered the love of God in so many ways. We want to thank each of the team members and their families for allowing them to serve Christ in Kenya along side of us. We have enjoyed going to Zebra Orphanage and spending time with the children and staff. The children were really excited to see the American Medical team and extremely happy with their new gifts that the team brought them such as stuffed animals and candy. We have never seen any of the children with toys before so it was such a blessing to all of them especially the younger children as they are going to sleep with the new stuffed animals. We love to see how God blesses those who have so little. The children will remember this trip for years to come and will talk about how God blessed them through the lives of the American Medical Team. Zebra’s garden is growing and now they are getting some food from the garden. Please pray for one of the children named John as he has been hospitalized this week with severe vomiting and diarrhea. We are praying that he be released from the hospital today. We are continuing to pray that God will supply the funds to drill a bore hole on the grounds so the children do not have to worry so much about water to drink as well as be able to wash their clothes and take more than 2 baths a week. The children are so highly intelligent and we know that God is going to use these children in mighty ways. God has blessed us by allowing us to provide shoes for many of the children who had no shoes or whose shoes were extremely worn out. The church, families and children were extremely happy to receive a pair of shoes as the sand burrs and thorns really hurt when they are stepped on. We continue to teach the Word of God to both men and women throughout the area as well as teach the children every opportunity that we have. The people are so appreciative to be taught the Word. The ones that can read follow along in the Bible and even helping others find the correct scripture in their Bibles. We continued to give out Bible to churches and individuals in the areas where there are so desperately needed. The joy on their faces when they receive their Bibles says it all. All churches now have at least 4 Bibles per congregation with most churches having more. However, so many still need Bibles to be able to know what the Bible really says and be able to tell others the Truth in God’s Word. Vision for the next 2 months For the next month 2 months God has laid on our hearts to go to the border and do boma to boma (house to house) evangelism. The border area is still highly saturated with witch doctors and witchcraft. It is an area that has few Christians. God has burdened us to share the plan of salvation with as many people as possible. We are also planning on teaching them how to cook their vegetable which now they only sell to countries like India. Teaching to cook these vegetable is a way to get lots of people to come to one site so that we can share the plan of salvation with them all at once. It also teaches them how to keep from going hungry during times of famine. They have enough food left over that is damaged or not first quality to feed their families if they only knew how to cook and prepare it. We also plan to spend time going farther into the bush in the area that we live doing evangelism and sharing the plan of salvation. God has led us to encourage the brand new churches and help them do boma to boma evangelism as well. We plan on coming to the USA either in August or September. We would love to share with churches, Sunday school classes or organizations what God has led us to do and has done during the past year. If you, or your church group or organization is interested in hearing about what God is doing in Kenya simply email us with a date and time that would be most convenient for us to come to your church, Sunday school class, group or organization. Prayer Needs 1. Please be in prayer for us as we follow God’s lead to share the plan of salvation with those who have never heard of Jesus. Pray that we will all follow God’s lead in whatever He says to us. 2. Pray that God will reveal His plan for our lives for the next year. 3. Pray for our son, Kelly as he is planning on visiting us next month. Pray for his safety in travel, that he will make all his flight connections that he would have no difficulty getting though customs and that God will keep him healthy and safe. Please pray also for our entire family; Donna, our daughter and her family, our brothers and sisters, especially Juanez, my sister, that God will completely heal her of cancer. We give Him praise for that already! 4. Pray that God will continue to meet our financial needs and the projects that He has burdened us to support such as buying shoes for the children who have no shoes, Bibles for people who can read, funds for building churches and building teams to build them, food and the needed supplies for the children at Zebra Orphanage. Pray for our health, safety, and that we will ever be listening and obeying whatever God says to us. May our answer always be Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” Have A Blessed Day! Don & Paula Nichols THEM P. O. Box 964 Pigeon Forge, TN. 37868-0964 E-Mail [email protected] website= www.them.bz Skype=don.and.paula.nichols Joshua 3:5 Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”