Kenya, East Africa or Bust!

Well, the boys(Bob, Robbie and Nate) are off! They left yesterday and arrived safely(PTL)today in Nairobi.  My boys along with our good friend Mark Hayner will be living in one of the sponsored orphanages this week.  They are so excited about this trip.  This is the first time for Nate to experience Kenya and also for Mark(previously lived in S. Africa for a couple of months).

As a family, we had a great time these past couple of weeks shopping for lots of treats for the guys to take to the kids.  Five Below was a big hit in preparing for some fun giveaways.  The guys are planning on having a huge party on Sunday.  Well what does a party at the orphanage look like you might wonder?  Well, I don't know other then the pics that they will bring back but I do know that the children don't often get meat so they are going to buy 2 goats to slaughter for their party along with buying soda.  We bought pinata's stuffed with candy and streamers to decorate, lots of fun gifts(jump ropes, soccer balls, bouncy balls, play jewelry, books, and even a very tiny bike)I wish I could be a fly on the wall to experience it all.

In the course of a couple of weeks, Bob began sharing with many different people that they would be living in an orphanage for a week and getting the privilege to minister to about 110 precious children.  The Lord opened people's hearts and they gave generously for the cause.  The money that was given is going to  buy new mattresses at the orphanage and...............a cow, yeah, how great!  They will have their own dairy cow so the children can have milk!!!  Praising the Lord!  We as a family have been blessed by this trip before they even stepped on African soil.  It is such an incredible gift to be a part of something so much bigger and greater then our sometimes self absorbed lives(speaking personally).

Along with our guys going to the orphanage, Caleb, Andy, and a couple of men interested in sponsoring an orphanage are there as well.  If you would please lift them up in prayer that would be greatly appreciated.  I know that their lives will be more impacted by these precious African children then anything else.
I leave you with the "Hirschberg Family Song"(doesn't every family have a "song"?! we're kind of weird like that)we sing this at the top of our lungs(most definitely not you-tube material) but seriously we only hope to live these words out in our lives, we are challenged by them!


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