Update on Fredrick

Hello friends and family! After posting our recent update on Fredrick (below), we realized that we forgot to mention anything about specific help for him.

Bottom line, he would really like to replace the chickens he lost. The project cost us about $500 initially, but that included 100 chicks, several bags of food (enough to sustain the chicks for a while), vaccines and other miscellaneous things. A gift of $50 would probably help him buy 15-20 chickens. If you would like to help him start again, please leave us a message here on our site, or send us an email.

Thank you and God bless!

Fredrick Kaingu

This is a good friend of ours named Fredrick Kaingu. Fredrick lives out in the Kaloleni area and has been very faithful and hard working since the day we met him.

We helped sponsor Fredrick several years ago as he went to Bible school. In fact, we sponsored two young men at the same time, the other one was Duncan Ziro who you probably know quite well.

Now Fredrick is back on the coast and has been invaluable in helping us minister to the young people the last couple of years. Just this last year, he decided to move onto the church’s 3 ½-acre plot in order to help us maintain it and expand our ministry in the area. We appreciate his willingness to move away from home and help us in reaching out to the youth.

As a “thank you”, we helped him buy 100 chickens a few months ago, in order to start a poultry farm. Disaster hit last month when the chickens got sick and all but 10 of them died. He’s still living there on the church plot, continuing to meet regularly with the youth, but struggling to make ends meet. We had hoped that this poultry farm would allow him the opportunity to support himself while continuing to reach out to the hundreds of young people in the area who do not yet know Jesus. Now we’re looking for what more we can do to help him as he continues to serve God faithfully.

Please pray for Fredrick and the struggles he’s having right now. Pray also for our other Giryama brothers and sisters who are struggling. There is a serious shortage of water and thousands of people are in the same situation. There has been no rain for close to a year now, so there’s a serious shortage of food too. Please pray for relief, especially in the form of rain. Pray that God will send rain soon to help people like Fredrick and the thousands of others who are struggling to live and survive in such harsh conditions.