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How your gifts to Lott Carey make God’s love real in Kenya

No, you may not have been there when Jesus fed a crowd. You might have missed seeing him multiply five loaves and a few fish.

But remarkably, through your gitts, you were there when Lott Carey’s mission partners bought a tiny, two-acre coffee farm in Kenya. “What can two acres accomplish?” some might have asked. “What good is that?”

Not surprisingly, those two acres of coffee have provided jobs for some who badly needed work. But they’ve done more. The annual harvest from those two acres has generated enough income to multiply the ministry of God’s people in Kenya in remarkable ways.

Sometime before the first coffee harvest, the superintendent of Lott Carey’s efforts in Kenya met a Sudanese individual at a refugee camp. This individual invited the superintendent to travel with him to southern Sudan (which shares a border with Kenya). After seeing the tragic situation there first-hand, the superintendent boldly committed the proceeds from the first coffee harvest to finance a Christian presence among sisters and brothers in southern Sudan.

Some might have thought such a commitment foolish, but it was no more foolish than Jesus feeding a crowd of hungry people with what appeared to be “too little.” The resources were small, but in the hands of God, a tiny seed can become a great tree.
Thanks to those two acres of Kenyan coffee, you were there as a new church was planted in southern Sudan. And you’ve been there ever since, providing the financial support to continue the work undertaken by a caring pastor and his family.

Of course, that isn’t the end of your accomplishments, for according to the Gospels, when Jesus fed the multitude, there were twelve baskets of food left over.
Even today, when we follow the Spirit’s leading, the blessings never end.

Thanks to that small coffee plantation and the bold use of its initial proceeds, your mission partners have bought badly needed medicines, paid school fees for individuals who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford an education, obtained a computer for a local school, and built a road in a village where there was none.

One of the beneficiaries of those school fees was Zablon Marusoi, an impoverished orphan who became the best student in his secondary class. With scholarship help that you provide through Lott Carey, he’s now enrolled in Baraton University.

Through thirty-two churches in seven parishes, you’re seeing remarkable results. Lott Carey Baptist Ministries of Kenya are energetic in their efforts to overcome divisions, establish new churches, and evangelizing new regions.

Poverty and HIV/AIDS threaten Kenya’s social fabric, but you’re there as Kenyan Christians reach out to address these debilitating pandemics. You’re there as well as they build cross-ocean partnerships with North American believers. And finally, you’re there as they dream of new ways in which the multiplcation of “loaves and fishes” could someday be enlarged through a small poultry farm and livestock operation.

Through Lott Carey, you make God’s love real in Kenya — and around the world.