Dear Friends and Partners in Ministry,

We have just experienced Easter together, and how much we have to celebrate as believers in Christ! I love this quote from Tozer’s book The Knowledge of the Holy. “Give us minds to admire that perfection of moral wisdom which found a way to preserve the integrity of Heaven and yet receive us there.” May God help us remain in this spirit of adoration throughout the year, and may He help us continue to share the amazing news of God’s grace and favor with those around us!

The first term of the school year ended this week and the parents were given the opportunity to visit with the teachers to discuss the progress of their children. Favour, Nadia, Victor, Levine, Pgaviinael, and Natasha are the super cute kids featured in the left photo representing the “baby class”, the youngest of the preschool classes.  The children will be off for two weeks, resuming school on May 8^th. After going through the COVID years of 2020 and 2021, how grateful we are to have the doors of schools open again! Please pray as some of the surrounding schools have had to close their doors again due to a bacterial infection that has caused paralysis and brought death. Pray for wisdom as research is being done to discover how to eliminate this bacteria and find a cure for those who are sick.

A handful of our children in secondary school have already arrived back home for the holiday from their various boarding schools. Most of these schools were established by churches and missionaries and have Bible as a school subject!  From left to right are Molly Kidera, Cynthia Alice, Tom Cheto, Gideon Rhema, and David Beckam. Tom and Molly are candidates who will be sitting for final exams (Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education) in November. Gideon and Cynthia are in Form 2 and David is in Form 1. The preschoolers in the home attend Malava Christian Academy on campus, and the primary students take a short walk down the road to the local primary school, so it is like a family reunion when the secondary students come home!

All the children will be helping the house parents with the household responsibilities during this short break; however, the maize has already been planted in the fields surrounding the children’s home and school, including on the land of the property recently purchased. There is always a lot of activity happening at the children’s home and school every season!

Please check out the website at www.rockministriesinternational.com if you have not done so yet. We recently added a donation button for those that need a Canadian tax receipt and will soon be adding a donation button for those needing a tax receipt from the UK. We are still learning how to update the blog, but soon each upcoming newsletter will be posted there along with other updates, stories, pictures, and videos.

Grace and peace,

Cindy