Grace Mbithi, Gail Drake, Paul Mbithi and some other guy during the 2009 Kenya trip.

I wanted to pass along this e-mail from Bishop Paul Mbithi, our primary contact in Kenya:

Dear Friend,

We do hope and trust that this e-mail note finds you and yours doing wonderfuly well in the Lord our God !!!
As for us here in Kenya, we are absolutely thankful to the LORD for His mercy and grace which has kept us going on uptil now.
Our family, the local church body, the school and indeed all the “church-sponsored” projects including the orphanage home for the needy children,
both boys and girls are doing great by the grace of God.

As we write you this message, here in Kenya we are faced with a serious life-threatening drought and famine at the moment owing to lack of
sufficient rain for the last 3-years or so. Water reservoirs including dams, wells and rivers are drying up fast as the heat rages, a situation that has
led to massive electricity power cuts everywhere in the republic as the Government issues power rationing instructions countrywide.
This is mainly due to the fact that a large percentage of our electricity is hydro-generated from water dams.
This move to ration power has adversely effected our already crippled economy even further causing the price for foodstuffs and other basic
commodities for domestic use to rise to unattainable levels. It is indeed a sad affair seeing livestock especially cows, goats and carmels
dying of hunger on daily basis in their hundreds for lack of grass and/or leaves in the field and water for drinking as rivers have dried up.

The Kenya government in conjunction with donor countries such as U.S.A and European Union is trying hard to reach out into the interior parts of the
country where people largely depend on maize and beans for survival. Several deaths have since been reported in the worst hit areas as farms have not
yielded enough crop as expected for the last 3 planting seasons. This is indeed a national crisis that calls for urgent attention and action where possible to avert a
more serious situation in the nearest future.

It is estimated that as of now, close to 10 million Kenyans are at a great risk of dying of hunger as food supplies get more scarce as the hot and dry
climatic conditions continue persisting. We do therefore request you to share this information with others out there for the sake of
prayer-networking as we trust God to intervene and save the situation. For your info, within this week only we’ve witnessed hundreds of dead
livestock mainly cows getting burried enmasse as the situation gets out of hand.
It’s rather sad to note that both humans as well as cattle in the fields and indeed other living creatures are threatened with extinction.
We hereby urge you to join us in prayer for rain supply from above as well as food provision for all the affected familes, especially women and children.

Lastly, our main church (headquarters) here in the Kibera slums is doing well and all the branch churches countrywide and across the borders are
reporting good progress. Just keep us in your prayers for there is much more we desire to see accomplished here.
The school & the orphanage home needs expansion rather urgently inorder to accomodate more needy children.
For instance, our school is so over-stretched at the moment and hence the need to build more classrooms as well as acquire more school supplies.

Thanks for your prayers & let’s keep in touch … be blessed.

Yours in the Lord’s service,

Bsp. Paul & Grace Mbithi
www.nlrministries.com