Our Beautiful Girls!!
having some fun on sunny Sunday afternoon
March has felt like a full month already with our children home from school last week for the Kenya National elections and many of our project teams travelling throughout the country to be in their home ridings. On Sunday, our church gave thanks for the peaceful election process, but many of our friends admitted that it was an anxious time as people monitored local media and avoided any unnecessary travel.
On Saturday, Kenya’s next president was announced after a long week of ballot counting. Uhuru Kenyatta narrowly won with 50.7% of the vote, avoiding an April run-off. We are interested to see how the coming months look as Uhuru, and his running mate William Ruto, are both on trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan election (Ruto stands trial on May 28th and Kenyatta on July 9th). We thank God that there was only isolated trouble this time around, but continue to pray for the communities of Marsabit, Garissa and Coast Province, where both violence and fatalities resulted from tensions and disputes around last week’s election.
Thank you for keeping Kenya in your prayers.
We recently sent out our March Update Letter to friends, churches and individual supporters. If you haven’t received it, please check it out online at www.cbmin.org or use this link:
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