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Lee &
Anne Marie
Pruiit
MISS IONARIES
TO
KENYX
P.O. Box
59322
Nairobi, Kenya
East
Africa
Phone: Oi l -254-256-4829
E-mail: LPruittMAF.org
Lee, Paul, Adam, Michael,
Anne
Marie, & Danielle
CMF
INTERNATIONAL
Prayer
Newsletter
September 1999
Life in Kenya has been busy Our winter, your
summer, is always a blur of activity with people
coming and going. In this newsletter, we want to
take the opportunity to share with you what wedo
here in Nairobi. We will begin by setting the
scene for you.
As I
write
this let ter, we have 14 families
and six
singles serving with CMF in Kenya.At all times,
we have families on furlough, preparing to leave for
furlough, or just retuming. We have new recruits
preparing to come and sadly dear friends, preparing
to leave the field permanently. It is a dynamic, ever-
changing group.
I cannot describe a typical day in our role. Each day
brings its ownneeds.Unexpected situations arrive
daily.The day we describe for you is not
uncommon, yet some days are quieter, and if
possible, some days are even busier.
July 2, 1999
Wehave five guests in the house overnight.One is
a young man who grew up here and has since
moved back to th e States. Charlie Ball is back to
visit h is f ri ends
and former
home.
The o thers a re
a
family of four preparing to leave for furlough.At
this time, we also have two extra dogs in the back
yard. One of our teammates is preparing to go on
furlough, and has brought the dogs into town to be
picked up by their new owner.
6:45 a m Lee is in the office checking e-mail. (It is
much easier to access
e-mail before
7 a.m. or
after
11 p.m.
7:30 The man who is buying the dogs arrives
to pick up dogs
8:00 Teammate (TM) here to discuss travel
arrangements and request some paperwork.
Hosting
a
meeting
of
teammates
around
our
dining room
t ab l e
TM here to pick up tickets and passports
for a group of visitors who are departing
tonight.
TM here to discuss work permits.
Phone calls to track down missing
paperwork.
9:00 Prepare Nathan (office runner) to go
downtown. He picks up mail, takes
letters and documents to the government
house, and follows up on government
paperwork.
Prepare radio messages to give to
Elizabeth our secretary as Lee will be out
of the office during radio time.
TM here to discuss meeting information.
10:00 Trip to airport to attempt to retrieve lost
luggage (with four team kids along for
the ride ). Lost luggage not found ~ filed
claim.
12
noon
TM here to pick up financial printouts
and information about medical supplies
fo r a clinic in
hi s
area.
12:30
p m
Eat.
1:00 Send Nathan back to town to pursue lost
bag reimbursement from the airline office
downtown
1:30 Trip to the store. (Lee does not actually
NEEDto go to the store with me, but we
somet imes do this to get away by
ourselves
2:30 TM back to discuss work permit
situation.
3:00 TM here to pick up a pool car.
3:30 TM
here
to
load tra i ler
and collect
paperwork.
4:00 TM just retuming from furlough here to
sort luggage and get oriented to our new
office space.
Write
e-mails
--
communicate
with
furloughing TM about retum travel plans.
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Marie
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year of homeschooiing
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now
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Write to future TM about pending arrival.
6:30 Take Adam and Danielle to Bible Study.
7:00
Arrive at
Guest
House to pick up
departing visitors to transport to the
airport.
While at the airport, locate the piece
of
lost luggage,
yeah
9:30 Pick
up
Adam
and Danielle from Bible
Study, then HOME
On
this day, we had working phones and consistent
power, making it much easier to accomplish these
things. While these office activities were going on,
we
also h ad the home activities, which included
meals for this crew and
our
guests, and schooling
f or b ot h Adam
and
Danielle.
Adam is wrapping up his homeschool work for the
year, and Danielle is taking a summer correspondence
c ou rs e. W e h av e M ic ha el a nd P au l ~ th e two
ever
busy, not quite two-year-olds ~ and the stream of
visitors and friends whom we enjoy catching up with.
Fourth of July
While living in a foreign country, we have learned
to appreciate all the more the holidays and events
that celebrate our great country. We celebrated in
traditional style with good friends, hot dogs,
hamburgers, and a family game of baseball. It was
COLD,
and we wore ou r sweatshirts. But
in
contrast, we celebrate Christmas in the HOT days of
summer
Rejoice
We continue to praise the Lord for the opportune
we have to be in Kenya. We have learned so muct.
about ourselves and this country. This process has
been faith testing and faith stretching. We are
thankful
that
He is not f in ished wi th
us and
that He
will continue to teach us and grow us.
Please
Pray
We will go to court on October 4 for Paul s
adoption hearing. Paul has been ours for one year
as of October 1. It is a good time to complete the
legal paperwork.
Please
continue to pray for the Stateside aspect
of
these adoptions
as
well. We think we have made
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some progress, yet the process continues to be
frustrating and extremely slow.
Adam is starting at Rosslyn Academy in late
August. It is the same school that Danielle attends.
It is an excellent school, and we are very happy to
have them there.
Please
pray
fo r their adjustment
as
they
return
to school.
Please
pray
especially
fo r Adam
as
he has
been homeschoo led
f or t he
past
five
years,
and
this
is a major
transition for
a ll o f
us .
Please continue
to pray
for heal th
and
safety fo r
us all. We are confident that your prayers have
protected us more times than we know
Because of Him,
Lee,
Anne
Marie,
Danielle, Adam,
Michael , and
Paul
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