Living in Nairobi has it’s challenges.  Sometimes city water doesn’t come for weeks.  Even when it does come it has so little pressure as to not even dribble out the shower head on it’s own.  But this has been the case for generations, so houses are built to compensate.  Ours has a complicated water system of three tanks (one underground, two in the roof) and a pump actuated by a slew of float switches.  We have two more tanks that are not connected in the system and are for reserve only.  All in all, we have over 1000 gallons of storage, enough to last us through most droughts.  It does require maintenance, though, and the other day, being low during a rain shower, we were collecting rain as it dribbled off the roof gutters into buckets and lockers and pouring it into our tanks.  Just another example of how life is different here.  -Ted

Our latest OFM video production took us to a remote island in the Indian Ocean in which the local population is 100 percent Muslim. There are no believers. Through relationships built up with workers there, we were able to film in a mosque on several occasions, something we’ve never before been able to do. It is a slow moving and beautiful place. The Islanders, void of extreme poverty and other hardships so prevalent in most of Africa, immerse themselves in a mix of Islam and animistic beliefs, none of which give them enough hope to break through the inevitable apathy and fatalism of such conditions and into the pure joy of knowing intimately our Creator. Pray for them and for the Truth to be known among them.

-Ted