One of the very pressing needs in Kenya is the starving villagers out in the Country!  Many of them move into the horrific slums in hopes of finding food and then get stuck there! We have been sending an average of $300 every other month to help pastor Festus Kimwele’s church and community, whom I have known for several years. They go several days at a time without anything to eat- so they call those ‘fasting’ days and pray to God for help!

Lucy Mburu has been a friend of everyone we have taken with us to Kenya, Africa since 2008!  She has an almost overwhelming passion for Jesus and the salvation of souls everywhere she goes!   We have been supporting her in a growing ministry to orphans and the Elderly- both of which are suffering tragically during the current drought and food shortages in Kenya!

Our ZOOM team was asked in January of 2025 to help Amson Learning Ctr. (Enos’ school in the Madera slums) with a scholarship fund that helps kids attend school whose parents can’t afford the ten dollars a month school fees plus materials. We contribute $300/month to this program and are praying that God will allow us to continue supporting this life-line ministry that provides for kids who otherwise would have no access to formal education…

Below is a letter from Dr. Lev Prystupiuk, a dear friend from Ukraine who courageously goes right up to the front lines with Rolfe and me in the War between Ukraine and Russia.  He is not only our translator but one of our dearest friends and a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When we are not in Ukraine he regularly heads to the most intense conflict zones...

I thought it might be helpful for you to have the latest update from our dear brother Richard Suarez in Venezuela, as you know, the U.S. recently captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro. In 2020 our dear brother, Juan Carlos Jimenez, invited me to go to Colombia, S. America, to participate in a month-long boot camp for pastors. Most of these pastors had little formal religious training and many were going into dangerous places to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ!...