My Birthday Month

Hello everyone,

Yes, I am starting my birthday celebration month. Number 46 !!!!! Praising God for life.

I have been enjoying Pastor Ambrose names of God series: One name for each month.

Jehovah Jireh God our Provider
Jehovah Shalom God our Peace
Jehovah Rohi God our Shepherd
Jehovah Tsidkenu God our Righteousness
Jehovah Makadesh God our Sanctification
Jehovah Rapha God our Healer
Jehovah Nissi God our Banner
Jehovah Shammah Eternal Presence My birthday month.
Hebrews 13:5 (AMP) For He (God) Himself has said I will not in any way fail you nor give you up, nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless, forsake you nor let you down (relax my hold on you). Assuredly not!!!!

That's a good word. Happy Birthday to me.

Jehovah Sabaoth God our Commander in Chief
Jehovah Yeshua God our Savior/Salvation
Jehovah Cheleq God our Portion
Jehovah Beryth God our Covenant keeper

Be Blessed by all of God's wonderful names. GOD IS GOOD

New House mate

Enjoying the 4th

Chissell's, Johnson, Ngaujah and guest

Singing the National Anthem

My new place

Jan my new roommate

Hello Everyone, Well this June I was busy moving back to Nairobi. Jan Koebel is my new house mate. We stay in a townhouse in Kilimani area of Nairobi. It a great place. I will still consider Dorris my up-country house mate.

We hosted our first party for the 4th of July. We had a great time meeting each others friends and creating new friendships. We had 45 people enjoying our new space. No fireworks but great food and fellowship.

July is going by so fast. I am preparing for the Willow Team August 6-13th. We will be working with two Kenyan churches hosting a kids camp for 600 kids (200 each day for three days). Just pray now and stop after the 14th. I am serious, pray now non stop.

PLEASE PRAY for continued peace in this country. On August 4th is a vote for the draft of the constitution. Many are praying that it is defeated and rewritten. We are praying that everyone stays calm and challenge their leaders to think of the people and not themselves.

May God continue to enrich your spirit and overwhelm you with His love and grace. Esther

April and May 2010

Greetings wonderful people!!!

I pray that you had a great spring season. Here in Kenya and Ethiopia I have been very busy. I am continuing to study and learn more with LCA internship. I have been accepted at Nairobi International School of Theology for my Master's in Organizational Leadership. I will start later this fall. I have moved back to Nairobi and will attend Nairobi Chapel. I have enjoyed attending this church.

April

Praise God I started this season off with a lot of ministry activity. I am blessed to work with two groups in Nairobi with a heart to train churches and leaders in evangelism. Life Challenge Assistance (LCA) and Haradali Ministries (HM) have worked with me to equip the ministries in effective outreach.

HM trained a group of young adults for a ministry outreach in Mombasa. It was very exciting to see how their hearts were open to the information. After their trip they mentioned how the training help them to minister differently and effectively to Muslims. PRAISE GOD 22 people accepted Christ. Photos above. Thanks Zablon and Njeri for conducting the class. To God be the glory.

During this month I also helped plan and work at a Medical Mission Day for a group of widows in Machakos, Kenya. This group of ladies is served by a fellow missionary Janice Lewis. She is helping them to start a chicken farm and plant vegetables for income. These women rarely get service from a doctor or dentist. Dr Moses, Dr Ben (both Kenyan) and myself gave physical exams, HIV tests and dental care to 60 people. It was a full day.

Carla B came to Kenya during April and it was a great time to visit with her. She is working with a group of women in Nairobi with the Global Bag Project. We are planning some Business as Missions meeting from this coming Aug/Sept. We were in Ethiopia for 5 days meeting with church and business leaders and visiting families that have started businesses with small loans from the ministry.

Even the last week of the month was very full. Dorris and I hosted a Women tea at our home to get to know our neighbors. 12 women came and is was a great time of fellowship. Dorris and the group will start a Bible study in the coming months. Pray for these ladies to grow in God's Word.

Jared from LCA came to speak to a pastor's prayer fellowship. Pauline, Jacintha and Bernard from HM also conducted another Muslim Evangelism class and we visited a Mosque. It was a full month.

MAY

I had an opportunity to speak in Nakuru, Kenya for a mission Sunday with the African Inland Church.

Dorris celebrated her 60th birthday by climbing Mount Kenya.

God is opening more opportunities and my heart to work with children and women again.

Spoke to 60 pastors about Children Ministry and Muslim Evangelism training. That was quite exciting.

I have been working with Pastor Reginah's Gurec School for several years. This past month I planned a Staff Day for them. We met in a hotel had a great time learning about personalities, team building, and conflict resolution. Pastor Timothy also came and shared his story of helping children at risk in very poor areas. He calls himself and them walking miracles when Christ changes their future through ministry outreaches. It was a very encouraging time.

PACE Graduation

During the last week of May Dorris and I hosted friends from South Africa, Kenya and Canada. PACE Bible School PAST had its second graduation. I was fully involved and enjoyed seeing the families and students celebrating this event.

Well, on May 31st I moved back to Nairobi!!!! Praise God I will be able to attend a church that I really enjoy Nairobi Chapel and I am located near NIST the school I will be attending this fall. My new roommate is Jan Koebel who works for a Bible school in the Nairobi.

Okay so that's the summary of the past two months. Keep praying and thank you so much for your support and prayers. PSALM 20

Blessings Esther

God's Grace, Mercy and Love

Has it changed your life??? Has it given you hope for today, tomorrow and forever? There are so many people around the world, next door to you , in the church and those who will never go to church who need to know of God's grace, mercy and love. GO tell them.

But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do His work and speak out for Him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference He made for you-from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted. (I Peter 2:9-10 MSG)

This period of learning and readjusting to home in East Africa has been an emotional adventure. I think in the last six weeks I have experienced every emotions possible. I think I am starting to even out :). We received an email from another missionary who had to deal with 43 rats in his home since returning to the field. PRAISE the living GOD that is not my experience. So when things seem crazy I just say to myself "43." It kicks me in a spirit of praise very quickly.

May God show you His grace, mercy and love over your life and situations. If needed just say "43." Unless you have 44 :(). Thank you for your prayers to cover me in ministry.

Standing in our home next to our wall of faith. All the verses that encourage us on our journey.

Be Blessed

Greetings

I am here for another year of minsitry in East Africa. I pray to continue to work with national churches for cross-cultural minsitry projects, leadership training, and encouraging women and children. I will also be learning more about Muslim Evangelism.

Continue to pray for me as I grow in deeper ways, love God more and all His created people.

Thanks for a great reception at Willow before leaving. It was wonderful and filled my heart.

Happy New Year AGAIN!!!

I am so sorry that I have neglected to post on this blogspot for one year. Well a part of the problem I couldn't sign on. Well, I will update it more but here are some pictures from 2009.

Thanks for your prayers and support.

God Bless Esther

Hello Everyone,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Praise God I started first day of the year on a plane heading back to Kenya and East Africa for the year. I am looking forward to seeing what God will do over these next twelve months and beyond.

During my stay at home I received love and hugs from family and friends. I attended mission conferences, speaking events, and meetings with our Feb mission team. I was able to celebrate a great Christmas holiday, filled my spiritual and emotional tanks and eat my favorite foods. The first weeks I was a home there was a song that said "fill me up Lord and use me again." That is my prayer. I know that my time at home was a filling station moment. Please keep me in prayer about staying spiritual and emotional charged.

Well, I arrived in Nairobi on the 3rd. This is a very different environment then last year's riots that were going on during my arrival. The country is still struggling with unfinished business from last year's riots and political corruption that is breaking the hearts of the people. Pray for the leaders (church, political, educational and family) of Kenya. Courageous leaders are needed who will stand up and help all the people of Kenya (before and instead of themselves).

I am spending the first few weeks reconnecting with the leaders from the Bali Global Summit. This is my main focus during the next twelve months. It is exciting to hear about their continued excitement from their experience in Bali. Meeting leaders from around the world has inspired and challenged them to seek God for more of His plans to the reach the world through the Church. Pray for Peter Z, Wachira, Yetem, Demisssie, Alemayehu, Reginah, Peter N, Njihia, Ahmed, Esther and Machira. That God will use them to mobilize their networks of churches and leaders for global mission. Ask God to increase their influence and impact on this continent.

Twelve for Twelve:
Over these next twelve months I am praying to invest in the lives of twelve leaders. The Bali team is the anchor group, but there are East African women that God is raising up to be the next generation of mission leaders. I am praying to connect with, learn from and encourage other women to live out God's global mission. Pray that God will connect me with 2-3 up and coming female missionaries during this year.

Added Blessings:
While I was home I prayed that I would meet more single female missionaries serving in East Africa. Well, God has answered that prayer. During a Philly mission conference I met Deborah who will be serving in Nairobi this coming year, Pray for her as she raises her support and move to Kenya. Janice from Florida has been a good friend during the last year here. Janice has family in Chicago so we were able to hang out in Chicago and eat GREAT pizza. I do miss pizza, real Chicago pizza. Pray for Janice as she works with her church in returning to Kenya by the end of the month.
Another gift of fellowship is Dorris. I have known Dorris for several years and we have done ministry trips before. Dorris received her doctorate degree this past year and she too moved to Kenya for twelve months. We arrived on the same day and will spend our first weeks establishing her home (I am claiming a room), adjusting to the heat and getting some sleep. I am thrilled to be hanging out with her at the start of this trip. Pray for Dorris as she adjust to Kenya and began teaching at the PACE Bible school. I am looking forward to spending some ministry time in Uganda with Dr. Linda. She is a trauma counselor and pastor. I will be joining her for three months this summer, learning from her about MANI, a mission network where she has a leadership role. They are also helping the African church to be more engaged with global mission. Pray for Dr. Linda and Paula as they prepare a Ugandan team for a ministry trip to the states. In July, she will return to Uganda to conduct trauma counseling to women in Northern Uganda. I am praying to join her on the mission.


2009 1st Team:
After their Dec. 2006 trip to Kenya, the Mohr family came home and shared what God had exposed them to in Kenya with many of their friends. This coming Feb. 2009 the Mohr's has gathered a team of 17 to come and bless Kenya. I will be helping to lead this group. This is a huge undertaking, they are meeting together, packing luggage, preparing their stories, raising funds and learning about the Kenyan ministries that they will be serving and learning from. Pray for our group that God will open our hearts to His work around the world, teamwork, health, lodging and transportation issues. I am finalizing the last details of our ministry plan. This will be the largest single group I have led so far.

I am very grateful for each of you as you pray for me and those I minister with here in East Africa. I cannot say thank you enough for your prayers and financial support in doing this branch of Christ's work. I am praying that the spirit of fear will not overwhelm the children of God. I pray that you will walk in fullness of what God has called you to do. Remember Gideon, a man God saw greatest in when he was hiding in a pit- scared. God saw in him more than what he saw in himself. He believed God enough to walk in obedience without confidence. Confidence came as he obeyed God. God is still looking for a few Gideon who will trust him against the odds. God is working through HIS CHURCH. Stand strong there are nations (people groups) that still need to hear about our Savior. Blessings to all my fellow Gideon’s, thanks for standing with me.


Esther Hall
PathFinders International
60 B W. Terra Cotta Dr #205
Crystal Lake, IL 60014
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