The Andersen Family

The Andersen Family
In Nakuru, 2011

Friday, August 30, 2013

Baptism!!!!

So thrilled to be a part of baptizing new believers in Kalacha.


Eddie and translator preaching at the pool's edge


                                              One of the young ladies baptized.


The climb down in the pool is a bit frightening.



Eddie baptizes a man whose leg was amputated at the hip.


   

Church members watching.
 


                                            Charm on a girl's arm.  Satan still has a stronghold.


Friday, October 12, 2012

The Treasure



Over the last year young men from our church recorded the Old and New Testament to a digital format. These recordings were sent to World Mission where it was edited to fit on the Treasure.  Our church, teams from the US, and many others have distributed more than 250 units into the Gabbra tribe this last year.  Appoximately 12-20 people listen to one treasure at a time and most people listen until the battery dies.  They have a solar panel on the back side and most of the units are durable enough to withstand the harsh conditions of the desert.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

A Year in Review

What have we been up to?  We'd like to give you an idea.  These are pictures of our first year of our second term.  It does not include all the car repairs, homeschooling, visitors, trips down country to resupply, Sundays, Bible studies, visitors, meals,welcoming a new nurse, chai times, and other adventures we enjoy as we live in northern Kenya.
 
August 2011 Youth Retreat in Kalacha 
Within the first week of our arrival in Kalacha all the local churches sent their youth to enjoy a retreat in Kalacha.  We hosted & fed approximately 100 youth with the amazing help of our local church men and women.
 

September 2011  Eddie's Dad Passed onto Glory
We were shocked and grieved when Eddie's dad passed away. We praise the Lord for a life well spent, poured out for the lost people of northern Kenya.  

 

October 2011 Ladies' Day
Church ladies had a fun day making earings and necklaces with beeds donated by several veteran beeders in the US.


November 2011 Network with Aid Groups to Improve Local Schools
With visits from several NGO organizations, we began helping them network to see real needs in the community, such as new school books and proper lighting for the local schools.


December 2011 Work for Food Famine Relief in Kalacha
With only a small amount of rain and years of drought most people in the area suffer from malnutrition and starvation.  We distributed several tons of food to the most vulnerable through a work for food program.






January 2012 Famine Relief and Fellowship in Illeret
Our church elders expressed concern over a church 12 hours drive away with few believers and no missionaries.  We carried famine relief food up and spent two nights with them, encouraging them to keep on following the Lord.

 

February 2012 Nomadic Cricketers Hold a Game on the Chalbi
Eddie marked out a cricket pitch for the Nomadic Cricketers who came to raise funds for local schools as well as increase awareness of the needs of those in northern Kenya.


March 2012 RVA Interim Visit
Rift Valley Academy sent their flying interim group to Kalacha to spend a few days serving and seeing the needs in our area.  The group was made up of nine 11th and 12th grade boys and girls.  They enjoyed taking off and landing on our airstrip.


April 2012 Rachel's Dad & Mom Visit
Rachel's parents braved their first air plane since 1970 and flew to one of the remotest parts of the world, Kalacha.  They experienced all the normal adventures of car breakdowns, desert picnics, and repairing our main water source, a broken down windmill.


May 2012 Install Solar Lighting for Kalacha Primary School 
The workmen from Kalacha Station were recruited to install lighting donated to the local primary school by the Australian High Commission.  Eddie enjoyed a few high profile visit to the High Commissioner's office as a result.

 

June 2012 World Mission Visits Bringing Treasures
Greg Kelly and company visited us and encouraged us mightily by bringing Treasures to Kalacha.  The Treasures are cell phone size mp3 players with the Bible on them.  Local youth recorded the entire Bible for the Treasures.



July 2012 Cornerstone Church Visit
Cornerstone Church organized a visit to help finish construction on a church building, show the Jesus film in several unreached villages and distribute Treasures.  They also installed two wells in other areas previously without a water source.



We praise God for a first year of so many blessings and opportunities.  Thank you for partnering with us and keeping us in your prayers.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Internet Hotspot

When our satellite internet system went down, we attempted to get our email via a local cell phone signal, available in select locations.



The local cellphone and internet hotspot.



It s was bit lonely.

Are you getting any signal?


Nope.


Let's go. I need a drink.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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.

Monday, July 25, 2011

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

Friday, July 22, 2011

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 3rd 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!!!