CBM Africa Team: Ken and Wendy Arrive!!!

CBM Africa Team Members meeting in Nairobi

Wayne & Maureen Morgan, Erica & Aaron Kenny, Pauline Kariuki, Stefan Cherry, Laura Muema, Ruth Munyao, and Wendy & Ken Derksen

It is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas here in Nairobi. Not only are we getting some very unseasonably cool evenings, there is a electricity in the air. Christmas vacation is soon approaching! With our children’s final Christmas concerts and final exams soon over, we are looking forward to great family time with our kids and team mates. 

On Tuesday evening, our new colleagues Ken and Wendy Derksen arrived from the great white North! The Derksens will be serving with CBM in Rwanda with our friends Darrell & Laura Lee Bustin, Jonathan & Janice Mills, and Andre Sibomana.

We are very blessed to have this week with the Derksens here in Nairobi where they have been connecting with our Kenyan team, along with getting some field orientation. 

Wendy, Ruth and Pauline

Wendy and Ken will be living in Kigali where they will be working with the Association of Rwandan Baptist Churches (AEBR). It was wonderful to hear each of our colleagues sharing with the Derksens what they enjoy most about serving with CBM. Again and again, people shared about the importance of CBM’s commitment to Integral Mission through mutual partnerships, and the deep satisfaction of seeing God at work in the lives of the people we all work with.

Wayne, Stefan and Ken

Please keep the Derksens in your prayers as they make this transition to life and ministry in Rwanda. We pray that they have a joy-filled first Christmas in Africa!

Laura and Erica

Please also pray for the rest of our team, especially our colleagues in Garissa, North Eastern Province, that are making the difficult journey home this week amid great insecurity. We are specifically remembering our friends Geoffrey and William.

Aaron and Maureen

We are also praying for many of our CBM colleagues who have children travelling to Africa this Christmas to celebrate with their parents. Please keep the Bustin, Mills, and Morgan families in your prayers as they await the arrival of their kids!