What's Happening?

Playing soccer with friends.

A birthday party!!

Feeding her dolls.

Building with legos.

Learning to walk.

Playing in the snow?! Not in Kalacha.

Send Off

Praise God with us.

Due to an amazing outpouring of financial gifts raising our support level to the required minimum, we are happy to announce that:


Everyone is invited to a Send Off!!

Sunday, July 31 at 10:30 a.m.

Fellowship Bible Church
15100 161st Ave
Grand Haven, MI 49417

Followed by a potluck dinner.

If you cannot make this please feel free to come by our house later that day for chai, coffee and ice cream. We will be around all afternoon. We would love to be able to say "good bye" to all of you.

Thank you so much for praying for us and being so generous. We thank God for all of you.

In Him, Eddie & Rachel

Urgent Support Need

We have a very urgent need to ask for your prayer and help. As you all know we have plane tickets and suitcases packed to leave on August 3^rd to leave the USA and return to our mission work in northern Kenya. Yet, we just received a message from Africa Inland Mission our sending organization that we are not yet at the minimal support requirement in fact we are $1196 dollars short in monthly pledges. They will not allow us to return in August if we do not raise at least $500 of this. Please pray that this support will come in. Also, pray if GOD may have you be a part of the solution. We believe strongly that the Gabra Church needs us greatly at this time and our congregation at Kalacha is in dire need of our presence immediately. Please keep this in prayer.

We cannot wait to see what God is going to do with this!!!

Vehicle Update

A "new" vehicle costs how much?!!! The numbers are in and it appears that a reliable used vehicle, about 5-15 years old will cost around $25,000-30,000. This price seems outrageous! However, when Kenyans or expats living in Kenya purchase a vehicle, the vehicle they purchase does not depreciate in Kenya like it would in North America. Kenya imports far fewer vehicles, vehicles imported must be built within the last 7 years, and taxes on imported vehicles are extremely high, up to 100% of the cost of the vehicle. For those of us planning to purchase, the number of vehicles available on the market is extremely low.

Due to the remoteness of our region we need to purchase a four wheel drive vehicle with hardy running gear and a reliable engine. Because our roads are two tracks with occassional bandits we would like something that we can count on getting us from here to there with few(er) break downs. The people we serve live in isolated pockets spread throughout a 15,000 square mile area with no gas stations or repair facilities in between. We hope to keep our old vehicle so that one vehicle could go on outreaches and the other on stand by as a rescue vehicle if the other vehicle breaks down.

Currently God has raised up $6,000 of the money needed to purchase a new used vehicle. A missionary friend that plans to change locations in August would like to sell us his Landrover when we return from home assignment. We would love to be able to do this as it would help him and provide us with the perfect car for our location. So we will see what God does.

When & Where We Will Be

So...we will be speaking at a few churches in the West Michigan area.

June 12 @ 10 a.m. Servant's Community Church
June 26 @ 10:30 a.m. Fellowship Bible Church
July 3 @ 11 a.m. Ottawa Center Church
July 10 @ 10 a.m. West Olive CRC
July 17 @ 10 a.m. Robinson Baptist Church (call to confirm time)

We would love to present for small groups as well. Just let us know if you would like us to come and share. We also love to just be with friends--so try to contact us if you would like to see us before we fly back August 3rd.

Kalacha T Shirts

For Sale NOW!!! Kalacha T-shirts. Get these by ordering from Eddie & Rachel. Available in medium, large and extra large. Price is $6 (plus shipping) for missionaries and $10 (plus shipping) for non missionaries.


Orders will be shipped in May. Thank you for your patience.

Drought Again

All of the lands of Gabra have become a dry waste land as it has not rained for over a year and a half.

The camels, goats and sheep walk for miles each day looking for water, along with the wild animals.
This vulture is hoping for an easy meal.


The Gabra people will suffer from malnutrition due to the absence of their precious animals.

OPEN HOUSE

You're invited to an OPEN HOUSE for Eddie & Rachel Andersen

Please join us for one of three dates:

January 15 from 2-5 pm at 34 White Hills NE, Grand Rapids

January 22 from 2-5 pm at Fellowship Bible Church, 15100 161st, Grand Haven

January 29 from 2-5 pm at 1001 Crosby NW, Grand Rapids

Hope to see you there!!!