Come join a team from College Park, Faith Missionary, and Grace Community churches as we travel to Kenya to serve the students at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST). This team will be teaching computer classes to the students, faculty, and families of NEGST. Additonally, we will be providing a VBS for the children of NEGST students. The day care facility located on the campus also serves as an outreach to many of the local orphans and underserved children in Karen, Kenya.

This trip with also include homestays with families from Nairobi Penecostal and Nairobi Chapel Churches. We will also include trips to ministries in the area such as Beacon of Hope, St. Luke's card ministry, and the Tuamini clinics located in the Kibera slums.

We will wrap up the trip with a 3 day, 2 night safari at the Masai Mari game park on the Kenya/Tanzania border.

You can check out the comments from the previous trip at http://kenya06.blogspot.com/.

Interested? Contact Phil Arnold at parnoldfam@insightbb.com or Ed Fischer at 304-257-1108 or edwin.fischer@qwest.com.

Adventures for 2008

This past weekend we started promotion for our upcoming short term mission trip to Kenya to teach computer skills and provide a Vacation Bible School for the students and children at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology(NEGST). As a trip leader, you are always anxious, yet hopeful that God will lay it on the hearts of many to join this team as we go to Africa and serve those who will be a part of the future African church. Since I work in the Information Technology field, it is exciting to be able to travel to Africa and help the students of NEGST learn to use technology to help spread the gospel. Even more importantly, I look forward to renewing the relationships I have developed over the years in my travels to Kenya. I also look forward to experiencing first hand how organizations like KIVA (kiva.org) have used micro-enterprise loans to help Kenyans become self sufficient. I think this is the beginning of a great movement related to "Kingdom Business" where people from the United States use their resources to help Africans become financially independent. This also is an important tool in helping ministers launch new churches in this part of Africa where many new Christians are hearing the Word and becoming Believers.

I look forward to our return to the Masai Mari for a safari. I was amazed as I reviewed our safari pictures from our last trip. I trust that God will bring together a team that is just as motivated as I am to help enable His Word to be preached thoughout Africa. This trip is always the highlight of my year and I always look forward to how it "transforms my life and my priorities". It is truly a blessing to be able to be involved with such an important work.

ed fischer