Grace and peace to you.
We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1b-3
Paul and I often pray for you and are so grateful for your prayers and support for what God has called us to do. Thank you!
I leave for Kenya on Saturday, but not to teach. Here is the story:
Outdated textbooks at the Africa Theological Seminary (ATS) have been a struggle for many years. We often buy books and take them with us, but textbooks are expensive and heavy. Due to licensing restrictions, it isn’t easy to use electronic textbooks in Africa.
Back in November, a nonprofit organization, Christianbook International Outreach (CIO), approached Paul at a conference and asked if they could donate some books to ATS’s library. We had not even prayed about the need to replace the outdated textbooks. We compiled a wish list to replace some of our most obsolete textbooks. CIO came back to us asking if we could use more books, so we added more textbooks, commentaries, references, children’s books, and Sunday School resource books.
CIO is sending 1,306 new books. The retail value of these books, along with shipping and customs costs (also paid by CIO), makes this donation the single largest one-time gift that the seminary has received. We are so immensely thankful!
The books cleared the port in Kenya and will arrive at the seminary this week. I will help receive and process the books, as well as assist with a celebration to praise God for the gift of these books. Please join us in praising God for this gift!