Report #1.....I made it!

Good morning. This is actually Rachel's father reporting on the Rachel's experience. She can only get to a computer on Friday's and yesterday she was traveling to her destination, Ilula, Kenya, so she was unable to "report in". However, imagine our joy when the phone rang this morning at 9:30 and on the other end was Rachel! Totally unexpected. She was in the home of Brian and Kristin Albright, the USA Laisons for ELI who also live in Ilula. Coincidently, they went to college at Azusa Pacific University and knew Sarah very well. (If you google Ilula Kenya, there is an article in the Durango CO. newspaper about the Albrights....Kristin is from Durango) Anyway, she asked her technologically challenged father to try to get on the blog and report that she made it to Kenya....that it's amazing....and that she can't wait to write next week. She was very very happy (and tired...8 hoiur flight to London, 13 hour layover....8 hour flight to Nairobi...and then a short flight to Eldoret in Western Kenya, very close to the Uganda border. Ilula is about 20 miles outside of Eldoret). She has a couple of wonderful stories about her time in London.

Let me encourage you to go to Empoweringlives.org and learn more about this orphanage and ministry. It is awesome. I had to tear myself away to write this short message. You will be touched by what you see.

So, that's all for now. Sorry it's me and not Rachel, but from here on out, unless she contacts us with a special request, it will be Rachel who writes. Check back on Friday.

Keep praying!
Greg Grove