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What words could sum up the last 3 months? Maybe a whirlwind of overwhelming, beautiful, sad, loving, frustration, life changing, exhausting, priceless, and totally worth it. This pretty much sums up our entire lives on the mission field! I always wrestle with how to squeeze into a short newsletter all that God is doing! Much will be left out, but here are...
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Dream Center, Feeding 500 Program, Gently Led, Family, Dream Center Tutoring, and the Future!
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Dream Center, 500 Club, Labor of Love, Girls Conference, plus Other Happenings and Events!
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The "Dream Center" building, in the picture above, shows the before, and after two weeks of work on the exterior.
My husband, Wayne, has the gift of remodeling. He takes something old and worn down and makes it into something amazing that you can barely recognize. As I look at the "Dream Center", I see something beautiful being created in his hands. He was made for this. But the most exciting part is not the outer shell, but the transformation of lives that will happen inside...
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Looking back at 2020, it seemed as though we were in a long episode of the “Twilight Zone”. And since we are being real here, there were many days we felt totally defeated. Not so much for ourselves, but for the faces of the children we knew were going hungry every night. The government lockdown prevented us from leaving our street, with the threat of being arrested. Eventually our love for the children outweighed our fear. Sometimes this meant throwing food out the window of our vehicle and driving away ...
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MAMBO (Hello Friends), It has been a while since we have updated you. To be honest, we are so used to God doing so much, we barely have time to sit down and share it with you. Wow! How things have been turned upside down since then! How in the […]
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Hello Everybody, we are posting from Mombasa, Kenya, and just wanted to give you an update and let you know what’s going on. We’ve been praying for a couple of weeks, just asking God what He wants us to do. We’ve been here in quarantine for what SEEMS like a […]
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Jambo. We just wanted to shoot you a quick update on what God has been doing recently. The 500 CLUB (VBS FOR 500 orphans every Saturday) has been amazing! One of our biggest challenges was how to reach 500 orphaned children with the love of Jesus. How do we make certain each and every child knows […]
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Thanks for taking out time to read our newsletter. It has been some time since we have updated you. Our family returned to the States because of expired visas, to visit our new Grandbaby and to visit churches (raising awareness and to raise support for our work here in Mombasa). […]
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Our Christmas Celebration was a day to remember. We had prepared for over 600 kids even though we had been told to expect 300. We packed around 600 paper bags with a green apple, a balloon, a lollipop, 3 marbles and a small bar of soap. We also had 600 cupcakes and 1 giant Happy Birthday Jesus cake. We began with singing songs of worship and then led into an acrobat show. It was wonderful seeing all the kids laughing and smiling. The show included bringing in […]
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This Christmas we would like to give all 500+kids from the feeding program/500 club a gift bag of some fruit, soap, a ball, a scripture bracelt, a balloon, a piece of Happy Birthday Jesus cake and entertainment with performing acrobats. Today is giving Tuesday and if it would bless you […]
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No matter where we go or what we are doing it seems God is always crossing our paths with those who are suffering the most. We have never set out to be apart of medical missions. We cant help everyone but when you meet little girls like Brenda and hear […]
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Andrus Family Update November 2018 This month has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs. There has been the highs of seeing the spiritual fruit from the seeds we are planting grow and bloom. Then there has been the lows of seeing so much suffering. The Fruit. Baby Ministry This week one […]
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If you look back at our last post on our website (gosendjoin.us), you will see a post describing our first month in Kenya, “DEFEATED”. You will see that our first month was quite discouraging. It was a hard post to write but we believed we needed to be real and honest about […]
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If we had to choose one word to describe our first month here in Kenya it would be defeated. Every circumstance around us both in the U.S. side and Kenya side says go home!. Our daughters and family in U.S have been very sick, renter refusing to pay rent, changes […]
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This quote by missionary William Carey has given us courage as we embark into what the Lord has for us. This is biblical missions, Community holding the rope as we plunge into the deep end of the Lords will for the nations “For my name will be great among the […]
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Served with Rapha House at Utange Feeding Center today where we fed, played games, danced, did first aid and planted seeds of scripture for over 500 orphans. The director noted that she has noticed a big change in the children since we started coming.The picture above is of Wilson\(part of RaphaHouse) doing first […]
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As I look back on my memories from 3 years ago I’m reminded of how hopeless I felt as I sat next to Lorraine’s hospital bed where she had been laying for 9 months everyday every moment in excruciating pain after a tour bus hit her leaving both of her […]
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Meet Mama Zura. She is the house mama at Rapha House(home for once homeless youth) She has been through many trials in her lifetime. One of the greatest trials … was when she gave her life to Christ… because of her faith her muslim family shunned her. She was no […]
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I have so many stories on top of stories that I couldn’t even begin to tell them all. I had such a blessed day with Sarah and Brooke yesterday. They are our neighbors and we take care of each other. Sarah began coming to Kenya back in 2007. After retiring […]
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I thought I’d take time everyday to tell you a little about all of the special people God has put in our lives here in Mombasa. I’ll start with Josephine our housekeeper. She is one of the most honest people I have ever known and would never steal even though […]
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The Andrus Family is gearing up to head back to Mombasa, Kenya.We just finished our flip house this week which will support our 6 month mission. We are praying it sells quickly. We are ready for the next new thing God is going to show us. We cant wait to […]
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(Our family has been blessed with the ability to be self supportive for this mission we have been given in Mombasa Kenya….so on that note all funds given for the remainder of this month of July will go directly towards Lorraines medical needs of $1500 ) Anything additional raised will […]
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This is a guest post from one of our pastors, Chris Borah, originally posted at http://chrisborah.com/my-re-entry-to-the-west-mombasa-2015/. ************** The Andrus’ work in Kenya was truly a joy to behold and I hope that you will join me in blessing them with prayer and financial support. Below are a few initial reflections on my […]
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Yesterday I took a 8 hour road trip. My life lately consists of having several conversations at one time, going 2 different directions and my mind is flooded with thoughts of all I have to do and what Im forgetting to do. Basically Im your typical mom….but if you know […]
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I love the biography of missionary Gladys Aylward. She says”If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you…remember it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He called Moses or […]
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Have you ever thought about going on a mission trip? What stopped you?; money? time? fear? comfort? The Andrus family has faced all these hurdles! Come to the meeting to get information on how God can radically change your life through missions Africa mission trip Informational meeting Sunday December 21st […]
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Although our hearts are ready to leave for Kenya tomorrow there is still much to be done here. We will be leaving for Mombasa, Kenya in June to work with the homeless youth there. We are partnering with an already established home for teens called Rapha House. As it is […]
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SERVE IN KENYA! MISSION IDEAS AND WAYS TO SERVE WHILE WE ARE IN KENYA OR WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT FROM HERE! 1. Help with Rapha house an organization that helps youth that are living on the street; We help them with lodging, food, schooling, work and most importantly we help/lead them […]