A Bigger Vision

It's that time again.

I fly to Kenya in the morning, to meet up with Moses and the team in Kisumu. I am excited about this trip. I am going with David, a friend I was introduced to by Nicky. David is feeling a real call to supporting the work in Africa by doing what he knows best. Farming.

So this trip is all about the farm. And about making some of the work out in Kenya self sustaining. It will be a challenge. For the last few years we have leased 10 acres of land in the fertile highlands around Kitale, some three hours to the north of Kisumu. The land has provided enough harvest to ensure food supplies for the project for the year, with over 200 bags of maize filled up. We use about 100 for the work with the street children and in our orphanages and homes, the rest we sell to pay for the following years harvest.

But we have a bigger vision than that.

Our hope is to rent more land, to see a bigger harvest at a lower cost. We would like to ship out a couple of tractors, which can plough the land and make a rental income when they are not working for us. We would like to grow higher yield maize. We would like to establish a training centre and college where the boys currently on the streets or in care can come and stay and learn a trade and profession. We would like to earn enough from the surplus to fund, not only the college, but a buillding program to take more boys off the streets.

In short, we would like to make the project more self supporting and give the people who work out there food security. In Africa, that's a big goal. It's only a dream. We only have a vision and a prayer.

But we will see what the week brings.

I am excited.