Counting down the days to May 20th, our planned departure, several have written us with both questions and decisions to get involved. Only $800/ month to go, we are encouraged, grateful, and working to be ready in anticipation of what God is doing in raising our support.  However, we have to pray.  We have a bird’s eye view on a battle. It is a battle to walk by faith, a battle to seriously care about others and not curl up contentedly in ourselves, a battle to think biblically, a battle to follow God not fear.
Please pray with us. This Sunday bandits in northern Kenya shot at AIM Missionaries Ken and Susan Black and their two boys on the road north of Marallal.  Five other Samburu people were also in the vehicle with our friends.  Their Land Rover took four rounds, one of which pierced Susan’s leg, shattering her femur.  With permission from the local police, the Gatab pilot landed the AIM AIR Cessna 206 on the road a few kilometers past the ambush and evacuated the family.
Susan has undergone the first of several surgeries and is in intensive care.  The family is asking for special prayer for their boys Robert and Joseph.  Their boys are good friends with our boys, and so the event disturbs us at many levels.  We’ve travelled that road dozens of times ourselves.  Pray for AIM.  Pray that we may go back in the Lord’s time and be able to work -supporting men and women of His, “of whom the world is not worthy.”  (book of Hebrews 11:38)
The question on the table now for us and before God is about our children’s education.  That remaining support is for putting the older boys into a school in Nairobi. This has been our plan, after much prayer and searching.  Jonathan will be a High Schooler already next year, and we (and he) all feel it’s a good time for school.  However, if we are willing (& led by God) to continue to homeschool, then we can go with the amount that we have.  Proverbs 16:9, “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.”
Our tickets for our family to return to Kenya is over $5K , of which we have $3K saved for it.  One-time support will go to meet that need as well.  So pray with us, lifting the Blacks up to the throne.  Pray that our direction concerning school will be made clear.
Under His mercy,
The Rurups

A video of the ministry of Ted and Liisa Rurup and family.

A little commercial I put together of the work of OFM.

Just yesterday we received our tickets for coming home. These two years has seemed both like a breath and like an eternity. This term has been rich with experience and we are eagerly looking forward to returning to the USA to tell you all about it!
-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