Glenn and Kathy Kendall Update #134 of Saturday, May 10, 2008, Dakar, Senegal and Littleton, Colorado

Incredible, absolutely unbelievably good, amazing is the life and work God has allowed us to do.  We are so fortunate, so blessed, what a Saturday....

It really began Friday night,

• - traditional Friday night pizza dinner in the Penney home in Dakar, Senegal
• - enjoying the chatter of boys and their rushing off for their 30 minutes of screen time (videos)
• - sitting around the table with our daughter and son-in-law talking
• - watching our littlest grandson play in the sand yard in the waning light before dark and bath time
• - Singing "motion" songs and reading from the Bible
• - Good night and good bye hugs and kisses
• - Grandpa's last bedtime story; "his worst meal ever," a story that had gone on for weeks as to why he was in Uganda having to eat rotten fish sauce on rice, gagging with every bit and keeping it all down.
• - Awakening to hear the chanting of a spirit worshiping person sect

And continued on Saturday

• - An alarm clock going off at midnight
• - A taxi ride to the airport
• - Bulk head seats and more sleep and later email and reading across the Atlantic
• - Getting our bags in Denver just in time to be the last people on one of two express buses each day to our neighborhood
• - Getting off the bus in snow, yes, snow in May in Denver, 3/8ths inch balls of snow that burst into fascinating pieces as it hit our heads and suitcases (We had left in a beautiful snow the month before too)
• - Good neighbors seeing us pulling our suitcases up the hill who gave us a ride
• - Cutting the grass
• - Picking and eating sweet, tender asparagus and rhubarb from the garden
• - The sun coming out and going for an incredibly beautiful walk: sun, blue sky, white clouds, green grass, blooming trees, sparkling water
• - Our house in an incredible place in beautiful America
• - Talking with some of our great neighbors
• - So quiet inside our house, amazingly quiet
• - Sorting through the month of mail
• - Going to bed early, late in Senegal - 6 time zones away
• - Marveling at God's goodness to us, what He lets us see, do and experience
• - Thanking God for an amazing trip.

We saw God at work:

• - We see changes in missionaries and nationals both. Faces are significantly lighter, brighter, hearts are less heavy.
• - An employer says she can keep an employee now because of attitude change
• - Forgiveness is given removing bitterness and fear, lightening the heart, brightening the face...amazing and we got to see it
• - We only had read about people finding truth in the Koran. But we met and talked with one such man.
• - He read in the Koran that:
• o Jesus is the Messiah
• o Jesus is the Word of God
• o Jesus is the Spirit of God
• o Jesus forgave sins
• o Jesus performed miracles
• o Jesus came with a sword of peace, all in the Koran
• - And then he read the Bible and found peace with God, amazing the change

And so we complete a month of travel and a travel year.  We send you the last Silly Saturday.  Other Saturdays will be silly but we won't write about them.

What's ahead?  Again, many amazing opportunities in the next two weeks of which God allows us to be part:

• - Lunch with a couple hoping to go to Senegal to manage the evangelistic camp on the Atlantic Ocean
• - Planning a group trip (February and March 2009) into West Africa where people have not heard of Jesus but many want to follow the "Jesus Road" (Would you like to come along?)
• - Seeing Glenn's eye doctor (Glenn's assumption is that all is fine)
• - Working out a partnership agreement that hopefully will improve medical training in Africa by Christians
• - Working out another partnership agreement that will improve the medical and spiritual training of doctors in Mozambique
• - Writing and reviewing more ministry opportunities for the many possibilities in Africa (http://www.worldventure.com/, click on "Serve," click on "Opportunities", check the Africa box and click "get my opportunities" at the bottom)
• - Working out how to increase personnel in countries that don't welcome traditional missionaries
• - Working towards placing a couple of Rwandese with a Rwandese who pastors near a major university in North Africa (We have the place, a possible person; even a start toward the finances but will it all work?)
• - Ordering replacement windows for Glenn's hobby of fixing up our house each summer
• - Enjoying what has happened in our neighbors' lives while we have been away.

Thank you!  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for traveling with us this past year:  reading, thinking about, even praying for and making all the travel possible.  We are so fortunate, so blessed.