STUCK! Ugh.Don’t you hate that feeling?
You know - being caught in the proverbial limbo where pending plans hinge on a decision that can’t be determined yet.
Well, that’s where we are.
Trying
to navigate United States Citizenship Immigration Services (USCIS) and
Henry’s USA citizenship is a daily task of applications, petitions,
paperwork, phone calls, photocopies and $$$. If you recall, we
originally wrote about Henry’s immigration story here. Little did we know the saga would continue so long! We just filed 6 application/petitions with 39 documents and fees. Praying for a favorable response!
Considering
our USCIS issue, plans for returning to Kenya are not set like
concrete. We must wait for “Advance Parole” approval before Henry can
journey abroad. Our tentative idea is to travel to Kisumu in May and
stay until early August. We will leave then because Kenya’s presidential
elections loom large on August 8th. Our last experience with
that found us hiding in a tin church while automatic gunfire and tear
gas crazed the Kondele community - a situation not worth repeating.
Although
we wade through unknowns, the Resource Center and Clean Water Project
continue to thrive. Look what you helped make happen...
The
Resource Center is a quality Christian place for vulnerable kids to
gather and know they are loved. Inside are games, art supplies, books,
toys and teachers who care that these little ones are not left to
neglect and abuse. The learning focus is Jesus. The Center needs
electricity to expand the programs. Please keep praying.
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Clean
Water Project provides bio-sand water filters along with the message of
Living Water to communities. It takes hard work to build and deliver
the concrete containers, but it is worth it to see families have access
to healthy water and the Gospel. This income-generating ministry also
needs help to secure the development compound. Please pray as we
investigate options.
Good work David and all who invested!
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We’re excited about an emerging project called 2 Continent Baskets. We designed a solution to tackle these 2 big problems:
1. Adoption expenses can be overwhelming (average $25,000 for non foster/adopt).
2. Many moms in Kenya are a risk of loosing their children to orphanages.
Among the Least wants to help carry these burdens by partnering with a
family preservation project in Kenya. Moms earn a fair wage creating
marketable crafts from sustainable materials. These items are then
offered to perspective adoptive families for fundraising sales to
finance their adoptions. This initiative is presently assisting a local
family. Cool graphics to inspire involvement...
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As
our family currently lives in the limbo of uncertainty dealing with
ambivalent authorities, we are practicing peace, rest, patience,
self-control and whatever other good thing that will get us through this
phase. Pressures of feeling bogged down by the swamp of bureaucracy
ease when we focus on our Creator - He secures our present and guides
our future.
To you, our valuable supporter, thanks for sharing our tenuous “limbo”
and praying for us. Thanks for continuing to sponsor worthwhile programs
that help widowed/single mothers and vulnerable children. Thanks for
helping to bring clean water into communities thirsty for the Gospel.
God bless you!
hugs from the haugers Ooo0o 
