Thank you for your prayer !!

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58

We thank all who sought the Lord on our behalf as we really felt the prayers and the direction from the Lord. This trip was tougher in some ways than before and yet there was incredibly peace surrounding us.This was more evident when things went in unexpected directions or contrary to the direction we anticipated. We thank you for lifting us up, several times we were immediately buoyed up when the attacks of discouragement and doubt settled on us.

Again we cannot thank you enough !!

Blessings,

Al for Larry and Al

Heading home in the morning

We finished up late today and were able to get to a computer. The trip has been exhaustive but very good. We met today in Mumias, a very strong muslim area. Among the membership they have 40 members that have converted from the muslim religion. This was one of our best meetings.

We had a good meeting in Bungoma yesterday, and were blessed by our trip down to Masai Mara. We saw over a million animals as the wildebeasts were there. What strange animals!!! We stayed at Mara West in tents amongst them. They have a website, we wre in the economy tents. This was hard to sleep the first night, the wildebeasts sound like cows and they eat all night.

We have too many stories for words at this time. Thank you all for you prayers!!

God bless!!!

Al for Larry and Al

Back from Uganda and Heading to Masai Mara

We have had an easier day today as we have finished quite a press. The meeting and first rest day were packed with story after story. Each church different and wonderful in their own way. The day we rested, Monday, was really tough, we visited two widows, with fresh graves in their front yards, and prayed with them and three other families in the area. This was tough and so sad, the graves at the home sites was not encouraged by the church, but the women had to submit to their husbands clansmen and do as they insisted.

The meetings have been very good with an increasing intensity of the Lord's presence, until we reached Uganda on Friday. This was a very hard, yet a beautiful place, with good (descent) roads and new animals, big lizards (with red head and tails and blue body) and baboons. The visits were on Saturday near the Mt Elgon , near the Kenyan border and on Friday southward near Lake Victoria. These were the two pastors that came on bicycles (two day ride) to meet with Al and attend the final meeting in Bungoma in 2004.

Yesterdays meeting in Busia-Teso district was the best yet. There was just a lot of joy in the Lord in that service, and the Lord was worshipped. There was a live chicken, eggs and pineapples given during the offering. The service was close to four hours !! But was to be enjoyed not endured.

Tomorrow we take off early for Masai Land to meet with the overseer of the Masai district Joel Ombima, and Ambrose Mwita, the overseer from Tanzania and the services in Lolgorian.

Thanks for all of the prayer, we will hopefully be able to update you on Saturday when we return.

Al for Larry and Al

Service 1, Kitale, 6 September 2009

Went the two hours up to Kitale, over 6000 ft elevation. Met with Pastor Fred Simiyu and the other pastors in the region. The meeting was the second of the day for them, they hold three services in the basement of a rented building. It was packed, we testified as to why, we are here. The call by Larry and Al were explained and then reason for the trip. Obediance. This was a good meeting the Lord blessed, this was attended by Bushebi, Vincent and Violet Wekesa, and us. Worship was blessed by the Lord. This church has at least tripled since 2004.

Main scriptures :

Matthew 5: 1-10; Psalm 24:1-6
Al and Larry

"Because he loves me, " says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

Psalm 91:14

But from everlasting to everlasting, the Lord's love is with thoe who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children - with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

Psalm 103:17-18

In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

Teach me your way O lord and I will walk in your truth, give me an undivided heart that I amy fear your name.

Psalm 86:11

Your word, O Lord, is a lamp unto my feet and a lamp for my path.

Psalm 119 : 105

Arrival !!

We arrived ! Getting here is quite a process, and we made it to Bungoma at 11:30 am yesterday. Everyone here sends your love. We have been so warmly received. Today we are resting for tomorrow's service in Kitale. We thank you for your prayers as we have been buoyed up several times by them already. Pray that we maintain His perspective as we go forward.

God Bless and thank you,

Al and Larry

This is the assurance we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him.

1 John 5:14-15

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 3:16

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled

Matthew 5:6

Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalm 46:10

If any of you lack wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

James 1:5

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

Psalm 91:1-4

He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. Psalm 25:9

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians 6:10-12

I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:16

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore.

Psalm 125:2

I want you to know God's words and call to me(Larry Lynch) regarding this mission to Africa.

In August 2005, in the mountains of North Georgia, on vacation, God woke me at 2:30 AM with these 4 words, "Not here, but Africa". I understood His message immediately as instruction to me to help orphans in Africa. I puzzled at this since I had never had any inclination to go to Africa, and I couldn't imagine how helping orphans in such a far away place could be accomplished. After some months, God brought Brother Francis Bushebi and his son Dalmas into my home during a visit to this country. (They are from Bungoma, Kenya.) We prayed, discussed, and I listened to the needs in his "valley". God showed us that the best way I (and any others who joined in) could help was with regular donations of $1/day ($30/month) to Brother Bushebi's ministry, Gospel Believer's Fellowship. They, in turn, could provide food, clothing and educational expenses to the many orphans in his community who were known to his association of churches. An organization was formed in our area called Kenya Care Partners to allow those who felt led to give to help these children. Four years have passed and Kenya Care now supports 33 orphans in that land. Praise God for His marvelous works! Thank all of you have been so faithful to this ministry!

Last fall, our church was planning to gather a group to go on tour of the Holy Land. I have always wanted to make this trip. But as I considered the trip, God spoke a different message to me, "Don't go where I was, go where I am today." I immediately understood that this was an instruction to go, not to Israel (where He had been in His earthly ministry), but to Kenya, Africa (where He was working today in the lives of these orphans and the churches who care for them). God also showed me I would not go alone. Since Al Stoner was my original contact to Bushebi and Kenya, and since he had visited there, I asked him many things about Bungoma and travel there. We also prayed over my instructions to go there. Through prayer, God showed Al that he should join me in revisiting Africa. From this formation, our mission was set.

One further promise to me came from the Father. As I thought about the cost of the trip my human reasoning said the money for the trip might be better used by the people in Africa rather
than me going there in person. Jesus gave me this word "I will meet you there" (in Africa).

So, at His instruction, and with His assurance, with joy and expectation, Al and I are going there to meet the Lord in whatever way He chooses.

Your prayers are already heard by the Father.

Thank you and God bless each of you.

Larry Lynch

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. Psalm 24:1-2

When the LORD brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

Psalm 126:1-2

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; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:10-11

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. ……They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.

Psalm 84: 5,7

....since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:1-2