Coffee with Christine

Now that I have been back, life goes back to normal. I like having my routines back. Here's a peek of my life... One of my great joy and privilege is to teach the Word of God. I think most people do not realise how much we have to study before we can teach or preach on the Word.  I am not complaining though because I do consider it a blessing and privilege to do what I do. The best thing is that when we soak ourselves in His Word, our lives are aligned to His purpose and destiny for us.  Even if you are not studying to teach the Word, I want to encourage you to study it for yourself! You will be blessed! And if you are in the neighbourhood, join us every Tuesday as we study the book of James.   These ladies are such a blessing to me! They have become such important part of my life. I didn't even realise how much I would miss this class until I had to travel recently. Their faithfulness, their desire to learn and their faith gives me such mo...

This past weekend, we had an opportunity to spend a couple of days in the city. Kuala Lumpur, is the capital of Malaysia and is a really fun city - beautiful buildings, and amazing food! Since not all of you reading this blog has been to Malaysia, I thought I share some pictures with you to show you the food paradise I live in! We ordered this CARNIVORE PLATTER....it was a HUGE platter and it took the three of us quite a while to work at it. Even then, we ended up packing half of it back to our room! They also gave us this cute apron to wear while we dug into those yummy sticky ribs! These pictures are from the food court at a mall - it has the most amazing collection of hawker food or street food. The choices are amazing. It was almost a torture to have to choose one!  We had breakfast both mornings at this food court - I feel so spoiled! This is from another mall, and it is a seafood bar serving up fresh oysters. I have n...

It's been quite a while....FOUR years to be exact from my last blog!! Wow...time sure flies.  A lot of things have change since my last post.  Life happened but I am grateful to report that the changes have been good - they might be difficult and challenging but it was still good. We definitely have can testify to the tremendous grace and mercy of God - we sing of His goodness and mercies everyday! I will sharing some pictures as a mini-update. I arrived to the burnt down JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in my trip to Kenya last year. It was a challenging experience and reminded me how volatile our world is. I was delayed in Dubai due to this fire. The airlines provided me with a 5* hotel in Dubai and I had an unplanned two day vacation in Dubai - it was a great personal retreat that I had so needed at that time. All things worked for good! You can see the burnt airport terminal from this picture.

This was my seat in Business Class - so wide and a recliner.....can I fly economy again????? Yay for upgrade! Shalom and Shammah - two beautiful girls~ their parents were one of our first members and leaders in the church we pioneered. They were students attending the Bible school we pioneered. They were both single when they started classes with us. Mary, their mother passed away a year ago. I was so glad the girls are doing well and Anthony too. Shalom, the older girl looks exactly like her mom. I miss Mary. She was a wonderful Sunday School teacher and a wonderful woman of God. This is Pendo ( ithink! it means love in swahili). She is the beautiful daughter of Sach and Pauline. Sach is a former well known gangster in a slum in Nairobi. He got saved, spirit filled and went to Bible school. Today, Sach is one of the pastor at River of God church. What an amazing testimony of the power of the love of God. with church members of River of God church - I miss everyone so muc...

I am so thankful to the Lord for providing for a return trip to Kenya early this year in January. I was able to reconnect with our ministries and put some plans together our ministries in Kenya to continue to go forward. We graduated ten pastors in Beni. I met with Bethuel, our congolese pastor and brought their certificates with me from ICM for the graduates and money for their graduation in Beni. I should have some pioctures somewhere! David (on the right) is Lucy's husband and run the orphanage together. On his right, is Bethuel, our pastor from Congo. I wanted Bethuel to visit our income generating project at the orphanage - our chicken farm! David was moved by the need in Congo and donated 20 chickens for Bethuel to start his own project in Congo! It blesses me when I see how we reach out and help one another! Praise the Lord that our food store was not empty!! However, beans and rice and all our staples have gone up considerably and surviving month to month is still...

This is a picture of the girls with their brand new friends from church, Kelly and Suvien. This was taken in the bus where the girls went for their first Rangers Camporama! That was two weeks after we landed in Malaysia. The girls only lasted one night in the camp :-( it was too hot and humid for them and Vickie got really sick. Daddy has to go and picked them up from the camp! Our first trip to Singapore and the girls first Christmas away from Kenya! We stayed in a hotel on Orchard road itself and enjoyed the amazing Christmas deco along Orchard road and in all the malls. Tony graduated with his MA in Africa but did not get to enjoy his graduation with his fellow classmates. A friend organised a small party for him and we had fun. I am so proud of him! I want to be like my daddy when I grow up! Here she is singing a solo during awards night, she was also awarded an academic award. She scored the third highest GPA in her grade - yay! Kathryn was part ...