the results are in, people!

what a week it has been!

the children from coast hills community church have been working every afternoon to bring in money for the building of the new home in kenya for the past four days, doing everything from
                          chores
              to lemonade stands
                                          to bake sales
                                to making & selling art and bookmarks
                                                        to cleaning toilets
  to seeing if their parents would actually pay for them to be quiet for 30 minutes... (it worked. she got twenty bucks!)

i am thrilled to finally announce the final count on the fundraising for coast hills community church's svbs/flood camp week...
                                            {drum roll please...}

$7,453.73

which translates to 

672,731.73 Kenya Shillings!

it is such a beautiful thing when the Church comes together to accomplish something that is so close to the heart of God. thanks to all who participated prayerfully and financially, and to those who have just recently joined us in the journey of building a new home for the children at Belwop Children's Home in Nyeri, Kenya.

If you do away with the yoke of oppression, 

   with the pointing finger and malicious talk, 

and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry 

   and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, 

then your light will rise in the darkness, 

   and your night will become like the noonday.

The LORD will guide you always... 

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins 

   and will raise up the age-old foundations; 

you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, 

   Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

Isaiah 58:9b-10, 12