The Alice Water Project will serve the people of Eastern Kenya.  Right now, that country is in turmoil and people there are dying in the violent unrest following the disputed recent national election.  Our Kenyan cultural advisers are very concerned about the safety of their family members and friends, as well as their own safety.  They and many others throughout Kenya are unable to go out to get food and supplies are running low.  Would you join us in praying for the safety of the people of Kenya, particularly the Munenes and the people of Runyenjes township?

    Please, also join us in praying for quick resolution of this unrest.  People of Kenya are losing an estimated $30 Million per day in income, this in a country where average income is $1 per day.  The losses are significant and they hurt.  The upheaval is also hurting neighboring countries because gasoline and other vital supplies, including relief agencies' food shipments, must pass through Kenya to get to Uganda, DR Congo and countries further inland.

    The Alice Water Project has put on hold the trip that was planned for February 6 to work on the residence, plan for the beginning of construction and encourage the community.  Please join us in praying for wisdom to know when and how to proceed with the project.  We believe this is God's project.  He will make it happen.  Please pray that we would be sensitive to His leading, that we may be wise as serpents and gentle as doves in the midst of uncertain and possibly dangerous conditions.

    Some project personnel will be fasting and praying for the next several days to ask God's intervention to end this crisis.  If you are able, please join us in fasting and praying.  Please pray that God would restore peace to Kenya and her people.  Pray for healing of the rifts there.  Kenya has been a bastion of stability on an uncertain continent.  Pray that God would restore that stability.  Most of all, pray that God would be glorified in all our decisions and actions for this project.  Amen. 

   In first half of 2007 we have been greatly blessed in passing some of the project's hurdles.   We are a designated non-profit.   We have met with many people to share our vision. We have a video to express the essence of the project:  people loved by God live in hardship because they lack the water we take for granted; many of these same people live in bondage because they have not heard the Gospel of God's love for them expressed in Jesus Christ.

   Now we need to prepare to break ground and build a pipeline by the end of the 4^th quarter 2007.  To do this, we are looking for a good project manager based in Kenya.  We are looking for a donor who can either give the time as a project manager or the funding for one.   In addition, we also are planning to make good use of the time we hope to spend in Kenya in December-March this coming winter for teaching of the gospel and the construction of the weir.   We need wisdom and courage to let ourselves be led to the right conclusions.

   The team that is going to Kenya is still looking for some who might be led to join us.  Who does God intend to send?  Just what will we be able to accomplish?  Will God send funding for the first construction?  Who will take over from our treasurer who needs to leave the board?  How will broken, fallible people be able to finish this huge work?

    What does the next quarter hold for us:

        Raising the rest of the funds for the weir (small dam) and the first pipeline.
        Identifying the additional team members for the next Kenya trip.
        Replacing our Treasurer as the current Treasurer resigns to pursue additional interests
       Pleading for an outpouring of love for the people of Runyenjes Township expressed in monetary assistance, physical assistance and spiritual assistance.
        That in everything we do, God would be glorified and the Name of Christ exalted.