2019 Kenya Team is Commissioned

Last weekend, the 2019 Kenya Team was commissioned to travel to Kenya, Africa to continue to grow the partnership between Fox River and our mission works in Bomani and Vipingo.

Itinerary:

• Sat., July 13: Depart early morning

• Sun., July 14: Arrival, orientation, prep for the week

• Mon., July 15: Crossroads Academy, Vipingo

• Tues., July 16: New Life Academy, Bomani

• Wed., July 17: Valerye McMillan High School

• Thurs., July 18: Field trip - grade 8

• Fri., July 19: Build mud hut for needy family

• Sat., July 20: Community Outreach, Vipingo

• Sun., July 21: Community Outreach, Bomani

• Mon., July 22: Fun day with our kids at Crossroads Academy

• Tues., July 23: Fun day with our kids at New Life Academy

• Wed., July 24: Safari

• Thurs., July 25: Packing & closing meeting

• Fri., July 26: Departure

• Sat., July 27: Early am arrival in America

Would you please pray for the team as they travel and minister to our 850 sponsored students, 80+ staff members and thousands of people from each of these communities?

Commissioning and packing

COMMISSIONING

Last weekend the Nicaragua team stood before the congregation as Pastor Guy lead them in prayer. The feeling that comes with knowing your church is praying over you and each of your team members is a feeling that can only be experienced!  Fox River sends off teams fully covered in prayer, support, and encouragement!

The team buckled up for a full weekend of being loved on by our Church.  We loved being able to hop back and forth between our Waukesha and Muskego campuses, knowing that Waterford campus is praying over us as well!  

 We were also able to join the church as we prayed over and sent Kerri (who is now safely in Nicaragua)! What an awesome experience to be able to gather around her and send her off!

Will you join us in praying as we go?  

Here are some certain areas: 

• Travel- timing, customs, safety, and everything in between
• Health- that we stay well rested and fight off the travelers sickness
• Luggage- we need our supplies, can you pray them there for us? 
• People-  Our team members as well as each person we will come in contact with!  For us to allow God to shine brighter than us. That the Nicaraguan people will have open hearts to the message of Christ. 
• Our Events- Clinic days, VBS, Women's Outreach, Teen Night, Movie Night, 5 year Celebration, Hygiene packs, Field day.  

You can find prayer cards at any Fox River campus!  >>>

 

 

 

 

PACKING!!!

Today we came together as a team to pack up all of our supplies. ALL. OF. THEM.

What a packing day entails...  We start off by standing and looking at the heaping piles of supplies that we somehow have to fit in our limited amount of suitcases that can only way 50lbs.  We spread out our suitcases.  Then we get to it... next step would be to get rid of all the bulkiness we can... taking things out of boxes, wrappers, etc.  Ziplock bags are our friends and we use 100's of them!  We spend a couple hours packing, weighing, shifting, repacking, reweighing, and on it goes until each suitcase weighs in right around the 50lb mark. 

It might take a lot of work, patience,  and a whole lot of GOD power for us to get all the things we need into these suitcases, but we love the time we get to be with our team and to see how God makes it all fit.  All of these moments are what builds the experience we will talk and share about for a lifetime! 

These supplies are what build up our events, the hygiene packs, and so much more.  It is so important that they all make it there!  This is a big area we would love you to pray about with us.  Customs can be a little tricky at times and the airlines have so many bags to make sure get to the right places with the right people.  We know we serve a God that has bigger plans than ours and that He has gone before us and is coming with us, but we also know that He listens to us when we cry out!  Will you cry out over our supplies?

Kerri

Fox River has had the privilege of sending out short term missionary interns to work in our strategic mission areas of Kenya and Nicaragua. Kerri Roberts is our newest intern and will be spending 3 months in Nicaragua this summer.

Kerri was in high school when she took her first Fox River mission trip to Nicaragua. It was during that first trip that God began to lead Kerri into missions. Since that time Kerri has taken three trips to Nicaragua and has become convinced that this is where her heart belongs.

The picture below captures Kerri's heart. In her own words, she explains what this picture means to her.

"On my third trip, I had the privilege of going out in the community to give mosquito nets to people who really need them. While we were walking around to some of the homes, my friend Jorvin and I were talking. He told me that most of the homes we had been to are never visited by others. As he told me this, he pointed to the tiny house in the middle of the picture and said that was one of the houses we were able to go to. We are reaching the unreached, and touching the untouched. This is what drives me to do what I do."

This short term internship is specifically directed at discerning God's will for full time missions in Nicaragua for Kerri. She will be living and working with our missionary, Donna Woodson. Kerri will have the opportunity to see and learn first hand about all of the ministries Donna touches in partnership with our missionary Brian Weed. Kerri has a burden to develop outreach ministries for the young women of Nicaragua.

Would you please pray for Kerri as she prepares for this next step in her journey of faith? If you would be interested in following Kerri's journey you can read her blog here.

Pray for Joshua

Joshua and his family are in need of your prayers. He and his siblings just lost their father.

Joshua is a young man in Standard 8 (eighth grade) at Crossroads Academy in Vipingo. His father passed away last night after an illness that had placed him in the hospital.

Losing a parent is always very difficult, but there is an extra burden on Joshua.  As the oldest child, the responsibility to provide for his siblings will fall on him, even as he is working hard in his final year of primary school and preparing to begin high school next year.

Please join us in praying for Joshua, his mother, and his siblings. We're asking God to comfort their family, and provide the strength and support that Joshua will need to balance his studies and responsibilities to his family.