Team Trip to Kenya

Greetings - with hope in Jesus,

During the last two weeks of March, LLM Board Member Mel Nissley and a team of four other men went to Kenya ready to put their repair skills to work. Mel was happy to see the new house that LLM had recently bought. “It’s a very well-built house with a long-lasting tile roof and good solid walls.” he reported at a recent LLM Board meeting.

“The water, pressure and drainage system is excellent and will be top-notch with a few small repairs. And with 9 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, along with a living room and a kitchen, it has everything that is needed to start a children’s home.” The house hasn’t been used for a few years so Mel and his team worked on rewiring some of the electrical fixtures and switches, along with working on the drainage system.

Esther, the woman that sold the house to LLM, came to meet them one day and see the progress on the house. She’s always wanted to help hurting children, so she’s very happy that the house, which was her family’s vacation home, will be used for that purpose. She invited Mel and the team to her home one evening for a delicious dinner.

This house sits on two acres adjacent to the twelve acres LLM already owns. A few other board members saw the house while on a trip there last December and agreed with Mel as he said, “This house will allow us to help hurting children sooner than if we’d have to build a house. It provides a great starting home and then as we grow, we can expand to the land we own next door.”

Solomon and the Kenyan Board are working on the registration papers that need to be filed for the operation of the home and hope to finish that shortly.