Mid-month news November 2025
Mid-month news November 2025
Dear Friends,
I have been in England visiting people, attending a few conferences, visiting churches, sharing about my work, travelling, and so on. This has been a wonderful time of catching up with friends, from the South Coast to Yorkshire. Thank-you to those who have put me up, shared, listened, advised, and assisted me for my ongoing ministry.
Go to this link for more information on this webinar to be held in January 2026.
Go to this link to see a video recording of the message I gave, explaining my calling into mission work and challenges faced on the field. It was recorded during the morning service of the Wantage Baptist Church, UK, on 2nd November 2025.
Planning-Ahead
Please do pray for my decisions to be made on my arrival back in Kenya. I anticipate facing questions about the way forward, especially regarding looking after children. My position is now different. In the past I took personal responsibility for children in an ‘informal-adoption’ situation. Now I have a household member who is registered as a foster carer with the Kenyan government, who will be the one to take on formal responsibility. My role will be supporting her, and keeping the household running financially. It looks like, if we give the go-ahead, then the Kenyan government Childrens’ department will feel free to bring and remove as they see fit, up to four children at any one time, in my home. (That is, under-18-year-old children, who are not related to the foster carer, in addition to an unknown number of other children who are over 18, or who are related to the foster carer.)
Mum
My travelling means that I have been able to spend less time with mum than I did in September. Mum is still being assessed by the NHS, while in a nursing home near Andover. Dementia continues to take its toll. She is obviously understanding very little of what is going on around her or what has happened to her. She is being well looked after.
Jim