Let us begin our worship of God this night with prayer. Almighty God, the creator and sustainer of heaven and earth, we bow before thee once again at the throne of grace, thanking thee for this privilege of being able to gather together to worship Thee and to come unto the throne of grace and to hear all that Thou hast done and are continuing to do. We thank Thee, Lord, for the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank Thee that it is as living water flowing into barren land. And we pray that even tonight, that water, the Holy Spirit may be poured out upon us and in our hearts that we may grow and bear fruit for thy honour and for thy glory. Do bless us, then, we pray, as we read from thy holy word, as we hear of thy work, and as we sing thy praises, and as we come to thee in prayer. Do grant us, Lord, that freedom and liberty to come to the throne of grace. Do forgive us, we pray, of our many sins, and do make up where we fail, as we ask it in the name of thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Our opening hymn this evening is from Hymns to Worship, hymn 109 to the tune 575. The church is one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord. She is his new creation by water and the word. From heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride. With his own blood he brought her and for her life he died. Hymn 109. nature, is Jesus Christ the Lord. Jesus, you creation, thy water and the world, from heavenly pain and sorrow, ♪ For every nation, yet one holy land ♪ ♪ God of love, of salvation ♪ ♪ One hope, one faith, one love ♪ ♪ One holy land, she passes thro' ten thousand lands ♪ and to our Lord she presents with every grace and truth. Thou who ever spoke for wonder, then see her soul oppressed. And soon the light of freedom shall be the moral star. In toil and tribulation and tumult of the war, of peace forevermore. Till then the vision glorious, her loving eyes are blest, and the great church ♪ And lift up the free in one ♪ ♪ And this day sweet communion ♪ ♪ With those whose rest is won ♪ ♪ And happy months of glory ♪ ♪ Lord give us grace that we may be one ♪ I'd like us to turn together in God's holy word to the prophecy of Isaiah, reading chapter 44. Isaiah 44. Yet now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee. Fear not, O Jacob, my servant, for thou, Jezreel, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water course. One shall say, I am the Lord's, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob. and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts. I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God, and who, as I shall call and shall declare it, and set in order before me, since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come, let them show unto them. Fear ye not, neither be afraid. Have I not told thee from that time? Have I not declared it? Ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God. I know not any. They that make a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their own witnesses. They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed. who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image, that is profitable for nothing. Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed, and the workmen they are of men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up, yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. The smith, with the tongs, both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth. He drinketh no water, and is faint. The carpenter stretches out his rule. He marketh it out with a line. He fitteth it with planes. and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house. He heweth him down cedars, he taketh the cypress and oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it, Then shall it be for a man to burn, for he will take thereof, and warm himself. Yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread. Yea, he maketh a god, and worshipeth it. He maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. He burneth part thereof in the fire, And part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied. Yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. And the residue thereof he maketh a God, even his graven image. He falleth down unto it, and worshipeth it, and prayeth unto it, and says, Deliver me, for thou art my God. They have not known nor understood, for he has shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their hearts that they cannot understand. Yea, none considereth it in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burnt part of it in the fire. Yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stalk of a tree? He feedeth on ashes, and a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? Remember these, O Jacob and Israel, for thou art my servant, I have formed thee. Thou art my servant, O Israel. Thou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins return unto me. for I have redeemed thee. Sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it. Shout, ye lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forests and every tree therein, for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel. Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself, that frustrateth to the tokens of the liars, that maketh diviners mad, that turneth wise men backward, that maketh their knowledge foolish, that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers, That saith to Jerusalem, thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof. That saith to the deep, be dry, and I will blow upon thy rivers. That saith of Cyrus, he is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem, thou shalt be built and to the temple thy foundation that shall be laid. May the Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word. Reading Isaiah 44, really what brought me to it was verse 3. I will pour out waters upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring. As we will look, God willing, at the pictures of the mission, naturally speaking it was a dry ground physically. was not much there attractive. It was a barren place, especially in the dry season, but also spiritually it was a spiritually dead place. There were literally those involved in witchcraft and making of idols, making of other gods and it was a physically barren place and a spiritually barren place but the Lord has promised that he will pour out his spirit upon the dry ground and the Lord Jesus Christ promised that he is the living water and that he gave his Holy Spirit to his people, and out of their belly shall flow rivers of living water. And we know that the Gospel, wherever it goes, is as living water flowing into a barren land. It can flow into people's barren hearts. He can flow into people's barren hearts and he can change the barren heart and make it a place of beauty, make it a place where it can flourish and bear fruit to the honour and glory of God and what you would see as many of you know is that the Lord has taken us on a long journey and he has done great things and we see in that reading that it is the Lord, the Lord builds up, the Lord pulls down, the Lord stops and the Lord allows to go and And so we are very privileged as a church to be part of what the Lord has done and is continuing to do in Kenya, in Karanzi, at the mission there. So I'll begin. Do the lights, John. So many of you are fully aware of where Kenya is. There on the east coast of Africa. There's Kenya itself with the mission right down here in the corner, right on the border of Tanzania. We can see the mountains from the mission, the Tanzanian mountains, and within a 45-minute drive we can get to the border itself. It is a very remote and rural area. It's almost like the Kenyan government have abandoned this side of Kenya. If you go back, if you go up from the mission here, it's all wilderness. And then you come to safari parks. And so there's no other cities for miles and miles and miles. And so the people are rural people. They still plough with their oxen. The wealthy ones will use a tractor. These boys are our neighbours, just off or bringing water back from the dam. And so it's a hard life from the day that they are born they begin to begin to work. Some will go to school, some won't. This is our neighbor Meshaka. I met him at lunchtime and he is holding a bird, you can't really see it, but he's holding a bird which he had shot with his catapult and he said he needed three others would be enough for for lunch. So it's a hard manual way of life. They're very reliant on the weather. If it rains, if they get a good season, then obviously it benefits them massively. But if they plant too much rain, crops die if there's no rain the crops fail and so it's very the crops fail and so it's very they're very dependent upon upon the weather which make different things that they would do to try and encourage the rain to come even climb to the top of one of the mountains nearby in a hard drought and they would sacrifice animals. When we first got to the mission There was nothing there. You may recognise this man. It's not David Livingstone. This is David Cottington. And so David has been with us from the very beginning, been very supportive with the work of the mission and visited several times. And so this was the first project that we did was a drilled well. It was 120 meters, we drilled down, but the water was salty. We have been able to use it, it hasn't been wasted. We used it, especially when there was no fresh water for washing our bodies, washing up, and things like that. And even in the drought season, the locals will come and use this water here. We've got a pump on top of it at the moment. Another one of the first things we did was this mud hut. This is my dad. He helped build some of it. And it's where I used to stay. And over time, then we built, began to build the mission compound. And over about seven years, we just continued adding to the mission. That's Sam and Hannah's house. We began to put solar on. So you can see the solar panels. So the mission is completely off grid. Rainwater harvester systems and solar panels. And so you can see the area. So see when it has been raining, it's very green, but it's very flat. And that's the mountain that they will climb up if there's a really hard drought, the elders of the villages will go up there and slaughter an animal. So the last building we built was the chapel. here, but just before we left. I found this picture on Apple Maps. As you can see, this must have been maybe seven years ago. The mission there didn't have a roof on. And there's the first mud hut, then there's the water tower here. And so the land is approximately around here. But then this is on Google Maps. This is the mission now. So down the bottom there is the 20,000 litre water tank. This is the playground that Sam built. This was our house, Sam and Hannah's house. The mission compound with a 100,000 litre water tank there. The chapel, the workers hut, the water tower and the main gates there. So it's really grown over 10 years since we first went. So everything has grown. This was the first Sunday school. When we first moved to the mission compound after about two years, two and a half years, the children used to come and just do colouring in on a Sunday afternoon. You can see this is Florence, John, and so you can see how long ago it was. So that, if you hold that picture in your mind, as I say, probably eight years ago to what it is today. So Sam has, Sam and Hannah have a Sunday school of a steady group of people of 200 that can grow to 350 to 400 children. This was a Bible study which I used to hold every Thursday. And then we had a church service on the Lord's Day. And now that's the inside of the chapel. So you can see that the Lord has done this and he has built and provided everything that we have needed to enable this mission to get off the ground and to be where it is even today. The children are picked up on the Lord's Day. They go off and are collected in the minibuses. They go to different villages and bring them. They have porridge in the morning, or they call it uji, which looks a bit like wallpaper paste. and it's just got loads of sugar in it but they love it. This is the youth class and adult class. So the youth have increased and the adults think they have about in total together about 120 adults and youth. Sunday school is then split up. Some of the younger ones do colouring and a bit of a lesson. Some of the older ones do crosswords and questions. They're also going through a catechism. So like, what is God? and what is the scripture, and so they're learning and to recite them. Their memories are incredible. I think because in our culture we rely so heavily on other things to help us remember, their brains are very good at remembering. This is Emily. who is hoping to go there with her husband. They're just there at the moment. This is a picture that Sam sent the other day. This is them taking the Sunday school. So obviously, I was there a few weeks ago. So I thought I'd make this one a bit more personal than other talks. So I flew out and was greeted by Sam and his two children, Josiah and Nathan. And a lot has changed in Kenya itself. The Chinese have been building railways and they've been building roads. So from How we used to get to the airport, we had to drive through Mombasa and go over across a ferry. That could take five hours. And so we had to, if we were flying to England, we used to have to travel into Mombasa the day before, stay overnight to make sure that we got to the airport on time. But now they've built this new bypass. So we can get to the mission from the airport in about two hours. So it's really helped things. So I went there with a man called Oliver Winkle. He is the pastor of Bedford Chapel. Those of you who know Graeme Tewter from the TBS, Graeme Tewter is a member of his chapel. So here he is having dinner. The locals from the mission, the cooks from the mission, asked him to try some of the local food. So this is ugali, which is maize flour, and what they call small fish. It's really like bits of rubber that taste of fish. It's not very nice but they love it. This is Sam and Josiah with Oliver on the back of the motorbike. and this is Sam and Hannah and there in the background is Kezia. So normally in the evening as the temperature cooled to about half five we would go and sit outside in the cool and have a tea, catch up with each other and so it's a nice evening thing to do. This is Hannah coming back from the shops. She still goes on Mondays to get the supplies for the week. Elsie and Hannah used to go together, but now Hannah goes on her own, or someone else takes the children. It's about an hour and 15 minutes drive. The roads now are good. A tarmac from the mission all the way to Ucunda, so that has helped out. So every time people go, there is always gifts that are sent to us. So the children have great fun. It's like Christmas whenever anyone turns up unloading all the different things. Mums and aunties and uncles send presents for birthdays and so it's a nice time to see what's in the suitcases. This is Hannah and this is Kezia. Lovely little girl. Growing up very fast. Loves being outside. Always trying to get to the door. And those of you who like dogs, this is Max. Max is a South African Mastiff. He's enormous. He drools. And he can be quite annoying, but he's intimidating. He's got a very deep bark. And so for security purposes, that's why they have him. Josiah with some of his friends or their friends, some of the Sunday school children, some of the neighbors who live at the mission. Josiah's Swahili is coming well. He greeted me when I got there in Swahili. He says, oh, do you have Swahili? He says, oh, have you remembered Swahili? And I said, oh, yeah, a little bit. And so he's really becoming quite confident in the language. When I arrived these were the workers that worked permanently at the mission. Mangali, Mangongo. Mze Masudi and Mzungu. So these four are there every single day doing maintenance work, grass cutting. Mzungu is now able to do electrical work. So he, any electrical problems, solar problems, he deals with all that. Car problems, he deals with all of those things and they're making benches for the Sunday school. So this man, Muzammil Soudi, has been with us from the beginning, 10 years. He was there when I was there, and he's never been to school. He didn't even know that the earth was round. And so it's quite interesting meeting somebody that's never, ever been to school. He can't read, can't write, and now he can tell the time. So before if you speak to a local person from Kiranzi and you ask them, what is the time? They don't look at their wrist. They look at the sun. They say, oh, it's about 6 o'clock, about 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock. But the sun is how they tell the time. And so he has learnt now to tell the time by his watch or by someone else's watch. So one of the reasons that I went there was to begin setting up the concreting of the road. So the mission is here and then we have a road, what we call the mission road, it's about a kilometre long. Now when we were there we dug it all out and laid rocks and covered it with smaller stone. But in the rainy season, some of it is sloped, so the stones get taken away. So we decided to concrete this part here. This is a seasonal river that comes from the dam up there. So we concreted from that river crossing up to these houses here. It's about 120 meters long. So we're thankful that there was money had been given, sufficient money in the mission to be able to do that. And so when I arrived, the locals knew that there was work coming, so they began to gather every morning. So when we were there, we created a system where we which we felt was fair to get people to have work. There was the core workers but then there were the manual workers that would come day by day and sometimes you could have 100 people at the gate in the morning. So we would take all of their names down, we would number them and then we'd put all of the numbers into a hat and shake them about and then every person would pull out a number. And so team 1 to 15 would work, then from 16 to 30, and so on. They would have their days in which they would come. And so that works really well. There's no arguing. There's no accusations of favoritism, which is the news that we got back was that We didn't favoritize Christians over Muslims. With the general workers we were able to work in a way that allowed each person to have something to take home for their families. You can see here is where the rain digs away at the at the road. And so we found the edges of where the roads were, where the road was, and then got it all leveled out. Everything again is done manually. Everyone is paid by the day. So I would measure a section of road and say, you finish this, I'll give you such amount of money, normally about seven pounds, something like that. Everyone is very pleased always with work. So there they're digging the entrance from the main road coming off into the mission. We used to have our own lorry but when we left we sold it as we thought it wouldn't be used so much anymore. So we used the local lorries to bring in sand and rocks. we were here this just as we were leaving really 42 years before they began doing this road that is it used to be a dirt track in the rainy season you'd get stuck the be the rain would wash it wash out sections of it but now it's been tarmac And it's beginning to fall apart already two years or three years. It's just corruption. Kenya is completely corrupt. So someone, a contractor may be given a sufficient money to build a good road, but then they just buy substandard products or they cut corners. So nothing lasts. So this road was laid on soil, compacted soil mixed with cement. was then had these small stones put on it and then tar rolled in so there's no there's no sub base to it whatsoever so any heavy vehicles parts of the road have dented and got potholes in already so how long it will last I don't know That's the problem that you're dealing with all the time. Corruption. There's corruption in the school, corruption in the hospitals, corruption in the customs officers, the government, in the police. It's very difficult. In our culture, we trust everybody. We don't like liars and we don't hear really of anybody who's corrupt. But here there's open corruption and we concrete it. The ladies got involved as well, collecting the water. They walked to the dam and they were paid by the day. That's 20 litres, 20 kg, on their head. And even the younger ones got involved. This is Gracie, Daisy's friend. And this is one of the little ones, that's a 10 litre, who's at the dam. The stones that were used for the concrete are broken normally by ladies. And these little girls, they were guarding their mother's pile. But there's children everywhere. It's a very friendly and family-orientated culture. Wherever you go, children come and watch. The ladies have an arrest. It was extremely hot, about 35 degrees. There's Oliver. So one benefit you see from giving people work and then paying them at the end of the day is that they can then buy something different from the normal food that they would normally have. So here, the man on the motorbike has come from the ocean and he's brought fish. And so the boy there has got some fish. You might be able to see it there. You see the fish in the bottom of the basket. So they come from there and then the locals buy it. This was the last bit that I did. That was the river crossing. Finished quite late that day. And then Sam and the workers have continued now to concrete all the way up to the man's house. Remember Mushaka that I showed you at the beginning? All the way up to his house. So hopefully when the rains do come, and it shouldn't be a problem. So we have the work at the mission. The mission village is called Kidanzi. One of the men who has been converted and called into the ministry is Michael, this man here. And this man is called Raphael. Now Michael had a burden for a village called Mbita. Mbita is probably two hours drive further west inland and into a very remote and dry and difficult place but he felt that the Lord was calling him there. And so over time he began doing evangelism. He gathered a group of people together and they formed a fellowship and they began meeting under a tree week by week and then over time the mission provided them with some land and built a church. It's not unusual to meet camels on the way. So these camels belong to Somalians. They have traveled the the width of Kenya from Somalia on foot because of drought. And they've come to the other side of Kenya. And so they have hundreds of camels. You can pass them, just keep passing and then feed off these bushes. It's a very remote place. This is the chapel. This is inside. So I held a a service there on a Tuesday, I think it was Tuesday or Wednesday, and I spoke to them on prayer. And they were really struggling at that time because of water. The dams dry up. So another problem you may have heard that the elephants come from the safari parks, they drink the water from the dams, which leaves the locals with nothing. And so then the locals have to buy water from other places. So life is very difficult. And so we picked up these women and we were taking them back to the mission for the conference which was to be had. So we held a service. I spoke to them on prayer and regarding that the Lord knows the things that we have need of and if we have a need and the Lord will supply that. And so I obviously used it regarding the rain and that they can call unto the Lord in their trouble, in their distress and the Lord can hear and he's able to provide. This is just on the way back a typical market scene. Always bright colours and always very interesting. There's a lot going on. So Michael messaged me on Sunday. He says I've gone to Mbita and I can't get home because of rain. I hope this will work. They're helping each other across the river. They're not speaking Swedish, they're speaking their own language, the Druma language. It's not uncommon in the rainy season to hear of people getting swept away, especially if you see that's how they cross the rivers. So life is very different from here. You don't, especially in the rainy season, you never know what is going to happen on your journey. There was a conference when I was there, which was on the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is a a very needed subject because Christ is very misunderstood. Their Christ is someone who helps them with physical illness and poverty. And obviously many of you know that these health and wealth preachers then prey on these third world countries, even in India and all over Africa. pilfering off the money from these already poor people and then getting extremely wealthy themselves. And so it's very needed to show people who Jesus really is. And so this is Oliver. Oliver spoke in the afternoon to a congregation of probably about 400 people. It was nice to see the chapel full. When Sam and I were discussing how big we should do it, we worked out that the other building that we were using held at a squeeze about 200 people. So we thought, well, maybe we should do it like double so we can have room for four to five hundred so it's quite amazing that after two years that that chapel is actually being used through its capacity. So these are two other men that were speaking at the mission One man here is known by Stephen Hyde, Michael Moorer. He studied with the Met Tab. He knew Oliver as well. And he preaches in Nairobi. Some of you may know a man called Keith Underhill. He started a church called Trinity Baptist in Nairobi. And so he is one of the students. He worked with Keith. And the other man is Barnabas. Barnabas was a charismatic Pentecostal. He would call himself an extreme charismatic. speaking in tongues, falling on the floor, being taken over by the Holy Spirit, having a real warped understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. But by the grace of God, him and his brother have been brought out of that movement and are now scriptural, we say reformed. And he also comes and works with Sam. He is in Mombasa. which is not far from where he's called Barnabas. There is a video on YouTube actually of his testimony. So while the morning conference was going on, there was some legal work that I had to do. And so I went to visit my old landlord. So in Kenya, a foreigner cannot buy land by themselves they have to buy it together with a local so one of the other reasons that I had to go there was to sort out to sort out this legal stuff that we've got to do for the mission as the mission that moves into the next stage so this is where we used to live we lived here for about two and a half years and And we lived there with this old man, Samuel Mburu, and his wife, who the children would call grandmother. They were a lovely couple, and I was really pleased to see them again. And this is a lady who used to help Elsie after she had had Florence. She used to help Elsie with cooking and washing. Her name is Mama Joy. It was nice to see them. On the Lord's Day, I was involved in transport, collecting the children with Mangali. So the men who work full-time at the mission, those four men, the three of them, the younger ones, all help with collecting and organizing of children. And they do that voluntarily. They haven't been asked to do it. They don't get any extra money for doing it. They just like going out, collecting the children, being the conductor of the minibus. And so this is Mangali who came out with out with me. It can take between two hours for two vans, so two hours for one, two hours for another going to collect children, and then two hours taking them all home. So it's quite a logistical, tiring work. So when Sam has visitors, Henry at the moment was doing it the other day, so it's quite a work for Sam as he has to do the vehicle and then preach in the They do the Bible study for the adults and the youth and then to take the service. It's quite a long day for him, sometimes not stopping until four o'clock. So starting at seven o'clock in the morning, going out in the vans, collecting the children, Bible study, preaching, organizing everything, then going out again and then not finishing without any lunch till about four o'clock. It's quite a work. All the children have their names taken in the register. Some of them are sponsored for school. The mission pays for that. And it's always nice seeing the children coming. These are some of the children's friends. Always very bright colours, very happy faces coming to Sunday school. These are some of the boys. They get a cup of porridge in the morning and then they get a cup of tea afterwards and some biscuits. As I said, it's nice seeing the chapel so full. There's another video here. Safe in the arms of Jesus in Swahili. Oh, I love you and me. I think you will know that one. So hymns is something that they didn't really know. They would sing culturally, they would sing choruses. You hear them in the evenings. traditional songs that they sing and there are Christian choruses that they sing. But they didn't really because probably of the ability to read is quite low. So hymns are something that is quite new. So Sam or when we were there on Saturdays, we would have singing practice and then we would sing those hymns on the Sunday. And so it's really lovely to hear them all singing. So in the Sunday afternoon, I went to see one of our friends, Mama Mary. I think many of you would have recognized her name. So all of these children were friends with our children. They were just next door neighbors. So they would come every day and they would be with us. So it was nice to go and sit with them. Food aid, the mission still does food aid, especially in drought seasons. I think it's about 600 kg per week that they're giving out at the moment, maize. And so Michael takes that to those who are unable to come to the mission in these sacks. And then they jug it out, I think about four to six kg per person, per week or per family. and then some who are able that come to the mission and to collect theirs. The medical work is ongoing with Henry at the moment there. I'm not quite sure really if there's been an influx in that, but he is a doctor and so he will definitely be able to help out with that. So the boy, his oxygen, I should imagine something like asthma he's being treated for. And this is an abscess. So because of the temperature, the humidity, the dirt, any small cut is able to go from a boil to an abscess. So Sam is able to drain, but anything big, broken bones, he will bandage and send to the hospital. Obviously, you see the way in which the people live, they have just enough money for for food. So if you get an injury and you've got to go to the hospital, then you've got to go begging from other people to help you because you've got to pay when you get to the hospital. If you haven't got any money, you can't be seen. If you broke your arm, you go to the hospital, you don't have any money, then you'll just wait there until one of your friends sends you some money or comes to assist you. And so things get left and when so obviously some illnesses cancers get left They just get worse and worse and worse and you see some hideous things Things that have just been left that could have been treated cancers that grow you big Growths on people and it's a very distressing at times And another hard thing that you have to or Sam has to deal with is who do you treat and If you've got someone with cancer, you could pump into that person maybe 5,000 pounds and then they die. Where in England, you don't even consider the cost. It's just free, you just go there. And so you have to make these horrible decisions. Do we treat this person and just prolong their life for a little while and it's gonna cost you your 5,000 pounds? Or do you just say, look, I'm really sorry, I can't help you. The decisions like that, we don't have to make. But there, you have to make choices like that on a, it can be like a daily basis. We help this one, we don't help this one. If we don't help that one, they're going to die. But there's nothing we can do about it. And they're hard, emotional decisions to make. The Bible, which is the Holy Bible, the word translation, it is a, a fairly good translation but there are some errors in it and so the TBS are working on a translation which amazingly Sam has been able to help with. He has excelled, I think I've told you many times, he's excelled at language. And this is a picture he sent me today of a meeting that he had yesterday in Nairobi with the scholars, the translators of this new version And so it's really amazing that the mission is being used by the Lord in such a way to bring an accurate translation of the Bible in the Swahili language. We're really thankful for that. These books All of Mr. Ramsbottom's books have now been translated into Swahili. This one is Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God, the sermon preached by Jonathan Edwards. This was translated by Sam and that is being distributed freely. And this book by Karin McKenzie has also now been finished and is waiting to be published, is waiting for the details from the publishers in Nairobi to get all of that sorted. So it's really encouraging now that we have translators able to translate faithfully and that Christian literature, faithful Christian literature has been able to be pushed out into these communities and with the Sunday school and the assisting in school fees for the children hopefully that will enable them to to read and be able to read the Word of God for themselves be able to read good books for themselves and hopefully we will see a generation grow up to know the Lord. This is Henry and Millie their little son Albie is not out in but and their daughter there God willing They are hoping to go to help Sam and Hannah in the work sometime next year. We've yet to get a date, but there are obviously some things. Henry has to pass his doctorate for a GP, and we hope and pray that the Lord in his time will enable them to go. Thank you very much for your continued support. I know we as a chapel, have the box at the back and there's a continued supply of money that comes from this place of worship and so we're really thankful for you all and at the prayer meetings often the work is remembered and even the other week when we prayed regarding rain that night there was a rainstorm which added half a foot into the rainwater tank so we can still be part of all that the Lord is doing there. So thank you all very much. Do the lights then, John. If anyone has any questions they want to ask us at this time? What's the situation with the rain at the moment? The rain, well, as I said, in Mbita it rained, but at the mission it didn't rain. So the tanks are Getting lower. I think so when he messaged you one time there was one and a half foot left in each tank which is probably 30 40,000 liters then when it rained added another half a foot so Another 500,000 liters 500 liters or something like that, so it's not out so but they do need rain desperately especially for the locals and their crops and As we sing.