Kenya Orphans In 2012

We thank the Lord for blessing us with such great sponsors and supporters for our precious children in greater Maseno Area of Kenya. We ask the Lord to bless them with good health, and enough food to survive & thrive and good growing & harvesting of their crops! We thank God for blessing us with seeds from Seed & Light International so that they had even more crops to grow. We ask all in Jesus name, AMEN!

Florence Oyosi our Coordinator in Maseno, Kenya

Florence Oyosi is a Social Worker by education, but often a miracle worker for His Arms. She not only coordinates our ministry at the Kenya end, but she personally cares for these children in our program. She stands up against rape and the mis-treatment of the women in the area who can often be exploited. She stands up against domestic violence. She walks and hugs the HIV+. One might describe her as a person who stands against much that is evil and wrong in that area. Well recently she was robbed herself of all of her chickens. She is not a wealthy person herself, but tries to make a living for her children as well. So tonight I ask for prayers for justice, and the Lord's protection against the evil one who lurks around our His Arms program and that of our brave leader. May the LORD protect her, her children, our children in the program and their loved ones.

Our Thankfulness for Gerry & Nan Hardison's Years

Today we thank the Lord for the ministry of Drs. Gerry & Nan Hardison in Maseno Kenya. They have now left that area and are returning to USA in retirement. May the Lord bless them with PEACE, and good health to enjoy some more time with their family. May He let them know how grateful we are for their missionary work. If it had not been for them, sharing the message, sharing the needs of Maseno area of Kenya, this ministry would not have happened. We thank God today for them and helping www.hisarmskenya.org become a reality.

Health Care for Orphans

HI All,

As I sat at the bedsite of one of our very ill sponsors here in ICU, I thought about the difference in healthcare for us, and that of our precious friends in the Maseno Kenya area. Part of our programs money is set aside that they receive for sponsorship for medical care. But the vast array of specialist, critical care units, medicines, IVs, ventilators, breathing treatments, etc that we have in our country to use to help bring us back to life, just do not exist in the area these children are in. My dear friend would not be here, probably if she had lived right there. My own little granddaughters both within the last couple of years, very ill, lots of test, treatments, and now fine. What would have happened if they had lived where there Kenyan "brother" lives that they sponsor. Sometimes it is difficult to understand many things. Maybe this is one of them. I just know I praise God that we can at least give these children that are in HIS ARMS program some medical help which the majority do not have in their area....and the funds to get them to those clinics. May the Lord continue to bless my dear friend here with a return to good health and May HE keep our precious children of His Arms Kenya Orphan project safe as well.

You Tube, Hisarmskenya.org

HI ALL,

In effort to keep up with the latest technology, I wanted to point out that we have two videos on You tube. So you just go to www.youtube.com and in the search area, put in hisarmskenya.org. You should see two choices in the list. One says, Kenya orphan project, and takes you to 2010 video made after that trip. Another one is listed below by same author, that starts out with orange screen and 2010 but it has a different back-ground song on it. Both have lots of pictures of our ministry. Enjoy!

Overcoming Kenyan Cultural Barriers

I love it when I get on my early AM email check, and I have a message from Florence who of course, is at least 9 hours ahead of us. She is able to walk over to an internet cyber cafe and use when electricity is working in the area. Well this AM there was a message. And it was a good one. See over 6 months ago, one of our dear sponsors sent $300 to re-roof a poor woman's home who was caring for her little kids, with holes all over the place. Well just after our sponsor did that, the in-laws kicked her off their land and she was left to live in a worse rented shack near the market. That is typical cultural policy when the son dies, the woman & kids are kicked of family property. So Florence, our Kenya coordianator is not afraid to go against such battles. She met with the family for over 3 hours, and mediatated....and guess what? They welcomed her back, and the money will now be used toward building her and the kids a more safe home. PRAISE THE LORD!!!! Thank you Lord for giving Florence such courage as well. Continue Lord to bless Felix and his family!

Kenya Orphans getting hope!

HI all,

We are so excited to let you know we now have our 51 sponsor in His Arms Kenya Orphan project! We are over-whelmed and know it has been God working HIS miracles every step. So today I was blessed to email our Kenya coordinator and give her the good news. She will now assign the 51st child so we can let the new sponsors in Wisconsin know about their child! PRAISE THE LORD! Incidentally, we have a waiting list in Kenya. However before a child is "cleared" to be in our program, a home visit is made so we know all referrals are ligitimate. But we wait until we have a sponsor as we do not want to give anyone false hope on the Kenya end either. So it takes a little time for this process. But believe me, we in the USA and FLorence in Kenya, are so excited when we hear this good news. Asante Sana new sponsors!!!

Kenya Orphan Projects

It is our prayer that you will closely check all charity organizations you contribute to this year. One of the places on the internet is Charity Navigators. Since our 501c is under Peace Lutheran, Baldwin WI you will not find us on Charity Navigators. However, our books are audited and we do not keep any of our funds in the US for any of our His Arms Projects. Instead 10% is kept within Kenya for administrative fees due to the fact that no one has cars of course, but we must rely on public transport to pick up our funds, transport our supplies, etc. None of our volunteers are paid a salary even in Kenya. We are so blessed. Feel free to join us on a future trip and check out for yourself here our funds go. Thanks for checking out our blog today. Mungu Awabarkie...God bless you all!

World AIDS Day

This week on December 1st the world celebrated World AIDS Day. We especially remember our precious children that are affected by this pandemic. Many are even infected by HIV. We pray for them. We pray that their medications continue to be available to them. And we pray that God helps a cure to be discovered. God Bless. Mungu Awabarikie, from Nancy