Coffee with Christine

Kathyrn, our oldest went for her CFS trip (Cultural Field Service). Their whole high school were divided into groups of 15 students each and went to different places to do community projects. Kathryn's group went to a village about three hours away from Nairobi. Their project was to help clean a church and various projects for the community. She is my "guest blogger". My apologies for my long absence...it's been challenging lately on many fronts...will try to do better at blogging soon! Anyways, enjoy Kathryn's comments on her trip! This is me and my friend Chris surrounded by all the kids who live in the town. This is this star we made during the little free time we had. This was the local market place. It sold everything from chillies to goats!! This is the gorgeous view from this valley! We hiked up and it was just soo pretty!! This is me and this little girl who is such a sweetheart! This is us in front of the church we cleaned. There were soo many...

BLESSED CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! A few pictures to get you updated on what's been happening at the Phangs while Tony was gone! Goofing around with Max! Decorating cookies...an annual tradition... A very proud cookie decorator! Kathryn's blue man and snow man! Emm....should i decorate the cookies or eat them??? Vickie's "retro" bell! Can you guess which ones are mine? Guess who got to clean up the mess after?? Gifts for Kathryn's Sunday School class.. Each gift pack has a lollipop, candy and a squishy yoyo ball that lights up! Only from Malaysia! We made over 30 packets. Not counting the gifts for the orphans (hundreds! ), I wrapped over 200 + gifts for students, pastors and family, workers at the orpahange, friends, etc. My hands must be tired after that...that's why the photo is blur....shaky hands?? Max wanting to play but we were too busy...see his pleading eyes? He is SO cute! I think he is saying "I miss my daddy" Once again, Wishing everyone a...

Vickie in one of her final games.... She's an aggressive player! Kathryn and friend pretending to watch Vickie playing...maybe some cute boys around???! can you see Max? One happy snoozing family.. Kathryn demonstrating to our friends how to use the steam roller that Happy Factory sent for our orphanage. This "tractor toy" helps with the kids mobility, especially those with special needs. These machines came to us from Utah via Fedex!! Lucy, our orphanage director (on the far right) brought her visitors from America to visit with us. They came to help widows with self generating income projects.

I am having major problems with our computers and am completely frustrated!!! Hoping that some IT staff are still around before everything closes for more than about two weeks!

I have been kinda under the weather for a while...a head cold that I can't seem to recover from ... coughing, sneezing, no energy, etc...and it seems to me that our internet server must also been having a cold of sort...it has not been working right very much lately. However, today, things seems to be getting better for me and the server :-)) I am trying to post about several different events today... This August during the AOG General Council here in Kenya, several HIM (Harvesters' Inst of MInistries - the laymen bible school we pioneered in 1993) alumni came to us and shared about how the Lord is blessing them in their ministry and suggested to us that we need to have an alumni meeting soon. They organised it but we hosted it on campus. They were able to contact about 20 of them...we haven't seen some of them for over ten years now! Some of them are pastoring, one of them, Harris and his wife, Florence in their 60s, (on the right of Tony with the African outfit) is ...