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Ken
&
Sharon Ball
Box 57
Namanga, Kenya
AFRICA
Jonathan, Sarah, Charles, Marcus
October, 1989
Greetings to all of you in the name of Jesus Christ.
We're home again!! But we wonder? Is home here in the States, in Ng'atataek, Kenya,
the boarding school the children have attended, or is it the plot of land we are praying to
receive for our new home in Samburu when we return to Kenya next year?
Let's just say-we're HERE again! And very happy to be HERE!! July 26, 1989, began the
fifth year in our second five-year ministry cycle with the Christian Missionary
Fellowship. The first four years of this cycle were spent in ministry with the Maasai in
Kenya, East AfHca. We would like to share with you, in a nutshell, the first four years of
this ministry cycle. So if you were to say to us, "Hey, Ken and Sharon, you are back!
What have you been doing since we last saw youV We would answer . . .
Ken teaching.
Literacy class in session.
Men seated at seminar in new centers.
YEAR#1 1985-1986
We arrived in Kenya June 21,1985.
Jonathan entered boarding school at Rift
Valley Academy.
Began an exciting, intensive discipleship
program with four key Maasai elders.
Delighted in three churches being established.
YEAR #2 1986-1987
Assisted in the production of two Maasai
literacy primers and teachers' guides.
Participated in launching Christian
Missionary Fellowship's Maasai literacy
project.
Saw a traditional Maasai prophetess accept
Jesus as her Lord, and, consequently, many
other Maasai were encouraged to turn to the
Lord.
Participated with two of the key elders in the
discipleship program in planting-three more
new churches.
YEAR #3 1987-1988
Constructed a small leadership training center
which can accommodate 40.
Trained 13 Maasai men to teach adult literacy
classes.
Initiated literacy classes in eight village areas.
Sarah entered boarding school at Rift Valley
Academy.
Continued monthly discipleship training
seminars at the center.
Stood in awe as three more churches were
planted and grew.
prayer newsletter...
Family, minus Sharon, in Europe.
YEAR #4 1988-1989
Trained ten more Maasai literacy teachers.
Charlie entered boarding school at Rift Valley
Academy.
Enjoyed the continued growth and maturing of the
nine new churches.
Launched a "Two-by-Two" program of evangelism
with other Christian Missionary Fellowship
colleagues, Gary and Judy Woods.
Secured funds for and published two Maasai
discipleship training manuals.
Left Kenya July 11,1989.
Spent two weeks "in transit" visiting European
missionary colleagues.
That's it in a nutshell. Now here's the rest of the story!!
God has blessed us.
God has caused us to grow.
He has disciplined us.
He has given us His mercy and grace to help in our times of need.
He has been a refuge for us.
He has stretched our creativity to its limits.
He has never left us nor forsaken us.
He has crowned us with lovingkindness and compassion.
He has not treated us as our sins deserved.
He has been the living water and the bread of life to us.
He has sheltered us imder His wing.
So, now, the story is complete. We are anxious to greet each of you face-to-face in this next
year. Until then may our everlasting, never-changing God be to you what He has been to us.
In His Service with you,
Ken and Sharon Ball
Marcus hiking
in the Austrian Alps.
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