"A meaningful mission filled with evangelism, medical outreach,
teaching children and adults, and school construction."

by Dale Fisher

From June 20 to July 11, Marti and I will lead a group from our church on a mission trip to Kenya. We'll assist a national missionary, Lucy, in her ongoing ministry there. We'll first present a three-day Pastor's and Christian Leader's conference in the city of Malindi, while we conduct vacation Bible school for more than 100 Kenyan children.

Then, we'll venture to a remote Island on the Tana River Delta, near the Indian Ocean. There, our mission group will begin to introduce Jesus to the Kenyan people who live in grass huts (shown below) on that island.

How? We plan to do this by doing a number of helpful deeds:

In addition to our helpful "deeds", we'll use "words" to tell a number of visual and memorable Bible stories, told in chronological order, to children and adults. And we'll present "The Jesus Film" (in both children's and adult versions), a popular highlight of our missions.

Because the island is quite remote, all of us must first travel many hours by land, followed by 2.5 hours by boat. Sadly, the boat on location (shown here and below), which is a hollowed-out mango tree trunk, is extremely unsafe. It tips over very easily! Using it to carry equipment, projectors, building materials, and people will be too risky, especially when you consider the presence of crocodiles (shown below) that are native to this waterway. Consequently, we decided that for this mission effort to be successful and safe, we must buy or have made, a reliable, larger boat, used or new, manufactured of customary boating materials that wouldn't be subject to tipping over.

To generate funds for such a purchase, Marti and Abby had a great garage sale. Sadly, although proceeds from the sale were adequate to buy a used aluminum boat suitable for transport in crocodile infested waters, they were not enough to buy a strong outboard motor. In the event you see the need and value of our mission trip and would like to help us buy an appropriate boat that offers much-needed functionality and safety, please see my closing comment (beneath the final photo) to find out how and where to mail your tax-deductible contribution check.

Regardless of whether you can offer a financial contribution toward this boat's purchase, I encourage you to prayerfully ask our Lord to invite others to see and feel the need and make a meaningful contribution. Plus, if you'd like to join us as a short-term missionary in Kenya, please email me immediately to discuss this further.

See Marti's and my prayer request that highlights details of this mission's many needs. No matter what type of support you provide, our mission group, and our Lord God, will thank you very much.

Incidentally, we're going to this remote island because God is at work there and we want to partner with Lucy to see many of these people come to Jesus, know Him, and trust Him as their Lord and Savior.

Check out these Kenya photos that Kenya missionary Lucy sent me.

Although proceeds from Marti's great garage sale enabled Lucy to purchase a reliably sturdy boat for her ongoing Kenya missionary efforts, garage sale receipts didn't quite reach the amount needed ($3,800) to purchase and ship a strong outboard motor for the newly acquired boat.

If you'd like to help the Fishers purchase a most appropriate, strong, boat motor that can safely transport people and equipment during the Fishers' Kenya mission, and thereafter be reliably used by Kenya missionaries living there, please mail a check made payable to "Trinity Church". Write "Kenya project" on the memo line without adding anyone's name. Mail your check to Trinity Church, 1551 Reservoir Road, Redlands, CA  92374. Thanks so very much.