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Foster Care Testimony

My name  is Grace.  I have a blended marriage family; we have two biological daughters from my Husbands first marriage. I have not been blessed with a child of my own.  Early 2022, we sought to [...]

FAITH – HOPE – LOVE

Have you ever noticed in the Scripture that FAITH, HOPE and LOVE are intertwined?  I was encouraged by this recently and wanted to share it with you.    We can keep on working, and laboring for [...]

Hope

The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. Ps. 147:11 Christmas time is a great opportunity to give gifts. I love the sheer delight on the faces of [...]

Humble

2 Chron. 7:14 ‘Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their [...]

Grateful

The year has begun and we are almost a month into it already. How quickly time passes by. I was reminded in my daily reading today that time and life are both gifts that I cannot control. What I [...]

KKV Guesthouse Update

Well, it is time to let you all know what is happening so far concerning the guesthouse. We have had quite a month since our last post and video letting you know of our plans to build a [...]

Giving Tuesday –

We are so excited to see Giving Tuesday finally here. What a great time to give a gift that will mean the difference between life and death to a child. We are in need of more cash flow for our [...]

A New Site, A New Era

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of our new Encouragers Unlimited Ministries website. Our old site needed a heavy overhaul on design and functionality to stay up with the times of [...]

June 7th, 2014

We are excited about our first ever KKV Boot Sale coming up this Saturday here on the campus of Kings Kids Village. What, may you ask, is a boot sale? It is a yard sale for people to seel just [...]

Going Solar: Step One

Our long term goal at Kings Kids Village is to be totally off the grid of one of the most expensive Power grids in the world… that of the Kenya Power and Lighting Company. At present we [...]

Fish Pond Almost Done

Things are happening at the village these days with the construction of our fish ponds nearing completion. We have hit a small snag. They ponds must be dug about one foot deeper to fully address [...]

Back to the Projects

We are really back into the full swing of things here at KKV. After a wonderful Christmas and New Years, we are working hard at getting some more projects underway! In case you haven’t [...]

Still Alive and Growing

This has been a busy season for Molly and I as we have taken on new responsibilities at our local church here in Nairobi as interim Link Pastors in June of this year. Sorry for the silence. Our [...]

Enlarging the Tents

Change is in the air here at Kings Kids Village. We are so excited about all that is happening. Construction of our fishpond is underway. Many hours of labor have already gone into it due to [...]

Drip, Drip, Drip

I have to say that in nine times out of ten the sound of dripping water would be quite annoying. Today is just the opposite. It is a cause for rejoicing! For the last five days we have been [...]

Miracle on Kigwa Road

From all of us at KKV, we pray that your Christmas was filled with the joy that only Jesus can bring, and that the New Year will bring greater revelation of His love for you. Christmas day proved [...]

Our First Graduate!

We are so excited to announce that Kings Kids Village has its first high school graduate. Essy has worked very diligently to achieve this, and has completed her studies with a great B average. We [...]

ERC Paid for in full

Dear friends of KKV. We are excited to announce that the final money has come in to fully pay for our new Education Resource Center construction. This includes a new front security wall for the [...]

Dedication Postponed

Dear Friends of KKV, Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have come to the conclusion that the Educational Research Center building project is too far from completion to have a dedication [...]

This Week at KKV

This week we would like to highlight KKV’S involvement in the community. Jon has been a member of a grass roots program called Local Area Advisory Council for the past 1 ½ years. LAAC is a [...]

This week at KKV

This past Saturday, July 17, a television program was aired discussing alternative education options for Kenya. It was a panel forum discussion concerning the challenges in the education system [...]

Volunteer Season

It has been a month since my last post. It has been a busy time with my wife,  Molly and daughter, Lydia coming back from the US and our new Missionaries (Jim and Sue Christie) joining us at [...]

Electricity Issues at KKV

Electrical Problems at KKV We are experiencing some special challenges at KKV right now concerning electricity. We have been having fluctuating voltage for a while and recently it started [...]

Electrical Problems at KKV

Dear Friends, We are experiencing some special challenges at KKV right now concerning electricity. We have been having fluctuating voltage for a while and recently it started affecting our bore [...]

Back home in Kenya

Dear Friends and Family, I am writing this post back in the comforts and safety of Nairobi, Kenya, where Molly and me run a home for AIDS related orphans… For those who have been following [...]

Touring Soibet, Sudan

Dear Friends and KKV Family, It has been my sticky privilege to be in Southern Sudan for the last four days. I cannot begin to tell you all the first impressions I have gotten of this place. It [...]

Nairobi Marathon – Quite an Event

Dear Friends of KKV, Sunday, October 25 was a great day for the KKV running team. What a difference from last year, when I ran alone in support of Kings Kids Village. This year was great fun and [...]

BIG EVENT COMING UP

Dear Friends and Family of KKV, We are really getting excited and trying to say the same about getting into shape ahead of the up and coming Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon coming on October [...]

On Air over Adoption

This past week has afforded Molly and I the privilege of being hosted on a Christian radio talk show here in Nairobi to explore the subject of having a passion for adoption.Adoption is something [...]

Waiting and Working

Dear Friends of KKV, It has been a while since I updated our blog. We have been wanting to get a new website up and running and that has taken longer than expected. So we have been silent, but [...]

It is time to update

Dear Family and Friends of KKV, I am excitedly awaiting the launch of our new and exciting interactive website for KKV. This is hopefully going to open the way for more interaction between [...]

Our 2009 KKV Marathon Team

Dear Friends of KKV, We are pleased to announce the formation of our 2009 KKV Marathon team. We are beginning our training to prepare for the October 25th running of the Standard Chartered [...]

Twenty Five Years in Kenya

This week on the 15th, we celebrated twenty five years in Kenya. I still remember the day we arrived… We were supposed to land in Nairobi at 7 AM, but due to technical failure of one of the [...]

Happy Birthday Molly

What a looker!!! She is truly much older than she looks… That is what love and grace do to a person… My question is “why doesn’t tht work like that on me??? Actually, I [...]

Our Next KKV Project

Plans will be underway in the new year to begin construction on an educational facility at Kings Kids Village.   It will be called the Mary Hensold Educational Resource Center in honor of Molly’s [...]

Christmas at KKV

What a season of celebration we have had!!!   Having the Grandparents around has been the icing on our cake!!  It all began with School Closing Ceremony on Dec 3.   The children were awarded for [...]

Hurray! I finished!

Dear Friends of KKV, I am pleased to announce that the Half Marathon went well, other than a few hitches, and I am recovering fine… I had two goals in Sunday’s race… 1. To [...]

Christmas is Coming

Dear Friends, Christmas is just around the corner and we are in the planning stages of our first ever Kings Kids Village Christmas Party scheduled for the 6th of December right here on the campus [...]

October Events at KKV

Dear Friends, It has been a while since we updated the blog… The main reason for that is that there has not been a lot of news to report on until now. Paul and Amy, our second born son and [...]

Check this out…

We are just getting to broadband here in Kenya and it is opening a new world of bringing KKV video to you… EnjoyThis is another better version of the 2008 promo we showed at our dinner on [...]

No Greater Love

We are having some great times at KKV reminiscing about Grandma Hensold and her legacy. Every evening so far, we have followed the Kenyan tradition of Matanga, sort of like a Wake in the Midwest [...]

Milestones and Opportunities

Dear Friends, It has been since January since we updated the blog. So many things have happened that have kept us off-line for so long. Our Internet has been shaky at best until recently, we got [...]

Kenya – This is the year of opportunity

Dear Friends and family, I am sure that nobody who knows about us is ignorant about what is happening in Kenya since Dec. 27th elections 2007. As I write, the governing party and the opposition [...]

Pray for Kenya

Our beloved family and friends, Well, this is Tuesday night in Nairobi and we haven’t written an update in awhile – we had to go looking for phone credit as we had run out and [...]

Christian Life Team 2007

Dear friends and family,It has been non-stop action since we touched down in Nairobi at 10:25 pm, Tuesday, 16th October. Not only had we left two of our family in the US (Molly and Christen), our [...]

Paul and Amy Wed

Dear Friends and Family, Words cannot express the joy we feel in our hearts over the joyful wedding of our second born son, Paul, to Amy Johnson. Paul and Amy are happy and falling all over [...]

Back in the USA

Well, our trip went well and we are enjoying precious moments with the family in our home town (or as they say in Kenya, our shags). The weather is hot and humid compared to Nairobi, so we [...]

Dear Friends, Kings Kids Village is fulfilling its purpose. Out of the forgotten, children are coming to find help, but much more than help in a physical sense. They are coming to belong; to find [...]

Bancy’s Bills are Cleared

We are flying high as we think on the goodness of the Lord concerning Bancy. We had really continued to feel the financial pressure associated with the whole thing. We also have to thank the six [...]

Kings Kids Health Challenges

These are trying times for some of our Kings Kids. We have three kids right now with skin problems and one who was in hospital recently. Wally is one of our original Kings Kids. This time of year [...]

Water Tanks go up

The Water tanks are up… They arrived on Friday April 20thIt was quite an ordeal getting them up… Parts for part of the platform were used to hoist them up.The hight the tanks will sit [...]

Well, it has been a weekand a half now since we started seeing water out of the new bore hole and we are enjoying its benefits daily… It took a few days to get used to the new system and [...]

The well is drilled

Yesterday was a great day. We celebrated Molly’s birthday (Bet you can’t guess how old). Her biggest birthday present was the drilling of our bore hole. They actually started at 5pm [...]

Bore Hole Update

Something’s happinin every day. Today the rig came. They say the drilling starts tomorrow. Here are some pictures. Enjoy!!! More tomorrow…Jon and Molly

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