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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 [...]
My story started at the children’s home( Kings Kids Village), a place that taught me the true meaning of community and the value of hard work. I knew early on that to build a secure future for [...]
Zedekiah Mkagwa spent his time on earth in two sections. His life before he met Christ and his life after that day that he met the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. For him, it was very [...]
I have been silent for a long season of rediscovering true north in my walk with the Lord. Today, the silence ends. Today marks the day of great loss and at the same time, great gain. This day, [...]
The Year 2022 is new and yet, as we start this new year, we still have old battles that we are facing. The state of our times have been described as a swirl. There are so many realities today [...]
Today marks the 37th anniversary of the day we first arrived in Kenya to begin our journey of a lifetime. Molly will also add some thoughts from the trip that started on Valentines Day when we [...]
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 [...]
We love this business of rescuing children. On our Facebook post for today, we highlight the life of one of our KKV kids, who, quite frankly would not be alive today if it weren’t for the [...]
Molly and I recently reconnected with a dear friend, Keith, who lived with us in Kenya for several months in 1995. Over breakfast, Molly and I discovered that he has been on dialysis for the [...]
Dear Encouragers Family and Friends, Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. John [...]
Merry Christmas from the village. We are so happy that we were able to spend some quality time with our beloved kings kids this past month. We come bearing wonderful reports of God’s [...]
Guess what? It is only 71 days till Christmas. How are you doing on your Christmas Shopping list? At Encouragers, we are offering THREE WAYS to give some Christmas Cheer at KKV as you shop for [...]
Molly and I have known for a long time that there is power in thanksgiving. During our 37 years of marriage and 35 years in ministry, we have made it a practice to thank God, even in difficult [...]
We are on a quest. We are on a journey. We are on Sabbatical. We have so much to share. Many who love us and have stood with us throughout our past 35 years in Africa and with Jon’s parents, [...]
We have been dreaming about building a guesthouse and initially kicked off the project at the beginning of 2019. We have been have been promoting it via our snail mail news letters and on social [...]
We are so blessed that not just one company has come along side us to help us raise money and awareness in the marketplace. We have been favored in two different ways… The first way is [...]
Hi, fellow Encouragers and friends of KKV. We are so excited to announce the new Kings Kids Village Store, where we can shop and help fund Kings Kids Village at the same time. A friend of Kings [...]
Greetings from Danville, Illinois. We just arrived on Wednesday after a grueling 14 hour flight from the middle east to Chicago O’hare. We are on an adventure of our lifetime as we head to [...]
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 [...]
As I begin, I must state clearly the fact that anything we are doing that is producing something of value and of goodness, it is not of our doing, but the fact that somehow we got a bit of a [...]
We are excited… We, meaning all of us here are Kings Kids Village, are very excited. A few weeks ago, we had a visit from our good friends at New Life Home, a home for abandoned babies here [...]
“You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.” And God will generously provide all you [...]
Happy New Year from Nairobi, Kenya. We are so excited to announce our big project of the year 2019. As we speak, site clearing is happening as we begin our dream KKV Guesthouse. As we look to the [...]
Hi guys… Giving Tuesday is coming up on November 27th (One month from today). We are launching a campaign to bless our KKV Staff this Christmas. For more details, sign up to receiver our [...]
We are so excited to present our newest video about Kings Kids Village. We hope you will enjoy it and share it around. Thank.s, Jon and Molly – Nairobi, Kenya
These are exciting days here at Kings Kids Village. This is our year of new beginnings. Tray and Lydia are onboard officially at KKV and have joined us on the Encouragers Unlimited Team as well. [...]
Happy Mother’s Day’ Mama Stern On the eve of Mother’s Day 2018, our thoughts go to our Mama Stern, who was at our side on Mother’s Day, 2017 here in Nairobi. Today, although far away from us in [...]
Kings Kids Village is now officially on Instagram. Check us out… and tell us what you think. Jon and Molly
I don’t know why, but this last year went by very fast. We were in the US for Christmas till mid January, 2017 and before you know it, we are celebrating Christmas again. As fast as 2017 [...]
Praise God, everyone! We are so grateful to God and give Him all the honor and glory for what He is doing at Kings Kids Village. We count it an absolute privilege to know and be in the lives of [...]
Dear Family and Friends, I am doing fine. Life is different living in America again. Our church in Lincoln is celebrating Christmas by having a big international banquet. We have several [...]
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 [...]
We are very excited to report that construction on our Chicken house is almost finished and should provide enough space to raise 350 broilers at a go. Even though this project has been an uphill [...]
We continue to prepare and pray for our Kings Kids Village students who are taking national exams. To the left, you see (top left to right) Jimmy, Alex, Sammy, Miguel, Davis, Cynthia, and bottom, [...]
Kenyans have been praying for peace, justice and mercy up to and during Kenya’s national elections held last week. Election season also tends to bring with it a change of pace as many [...]
We have exciting news to share with you all. JBloom jewelry designers are partnering with us to promote Kenyan made jewelry and financially support Kings Kids Village. The founders of JBloom, [...]
Dear Friends of KKV. Molly and I have just returned from a whirlwind trip to the US getting mom settled into an independent living section of a retirement community in Lincoln, NE, the city she [...]
This year is proving to be a challenge for us in the area of parenting. Our longer-serving parents are getting up into their mid 70’s and needing a rest from the hard work required to [...]
March 29th started as an extra ordinary day for Grandma (Eleanor) Stern. It turned out to be far more than that. In her mind, she had been invited to speak to the Nairobi Lighthouse Church staff [...]
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 [...]
2017 is turning out to be an exciting year of development at Kings Kids Village. We are looking at two sustainability projects, 1. A Guesthouse and 2. A chicken broiler project. Both are daunting [...]
Here we are at the end of another wonderful year at Kings Kids Village. We stay busy here with 47 kids and 27 staff members. The gardens are bursting with good food, the students are busy in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We are grateful at Kings Kids Village for another year of God’s grace and favor. We have been the benefactors of His provision and help. One of the most significant things we have seen Him [...]
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 [...]
Each year, May through August, we brace for a shortage in giving. It seems to be a pattern the past few years, and I just heard from my sister that this year is no exception. We are $4,000.00 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ephesians 3:20 (AMP) says “Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and [...]
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 [...]
It has been far to long since I have updated this blog. While I can not give a promise of a weekly update, every effort will be made to post on a more regular basis. If I would even dare to keep [...]
There is such an air of excitement here at Kings Kids Village. So many awesome things are happening. We are all so happy that Lydia has returned to us, and very proud of her. She has returned [...]
A new way to help Encouragers Unlimited and our main project, Kings Kids Village, is by shopping at our Mall online… Our cause will get a percentage of every purchase you make… [...]
We have all had times in our lives when we wonder how we will get through without going a little insane. The last couple of weeks have been that way around here. The great part of it all is [...]
This week we harvested our first honey. Some months ago we purchased a “bee box” and moved a nest of bees into it. One of our groundskeepers, John, went out at night and scraped the honey from [...]
It has been a very busy week . The Club 8:12er’s (age 14 and up) have been having many practices for their upcoming concert. Our older kids are part of this evangelistic outreach hosted by [...]
There are times when school breaks can be a challenge. For many children, having structure keeps things going smoothly; ours kids are no exception. Sometimes we have a team of volunteers here to [...]
This week we celebrated the ending of another awesome school term. We had a time of praise and worship that was led by three of our girls. The students were honored for all of their hard work. [...]
Many thanks to all of you who have been praying for us this past week. God has heard your prayers, and this week has been much better. On Saturday, we had a team of 20 ushers from Nairobi [...]
This has been a very challenging week here at KKV. There have been two funerals this week. The first was for a distant relation of the Stern family. Their relative came here to Kenya to bury his [...]
This is a sad story, but so true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. There was a little girl named Ruth, born in 1985. She lived in Nairobi with her mother. The father was [...]
We have some very exciting news! God has blessed us with a wonderful volunteer social worker named Catherine. Over the last several weeks Catherine has been doing all the legwork from office to [...]
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 [...]
On Wednesday, Terri and Paula, two of our volunteers, came and helped the kids to make string bracelets. They took the kids by age group, and patiently instructed them. All of our kids, as well [...]
We have good news this week. Evans was released from the hospital on Monday. He is home and doing much better, although not yet back in school. Please continue to pray and believe with us for his [...]
Construction has been moving along very well on our school building. We are almost ready for roof rafters over the entire school. Along with the school building there is construction of a new [...]
We were so happy to meet Paula and Terri, our 2 newest volunteers. They will be coming every Wednesday to do painting, arts and crafts with the kids. The kids will be divided into age groups and [...]
We bid a fond farewell to Miss Jane on Sunday. She was such a blessing during her stay here. Besides many painting lessons with the kids, she taught our house moms to bake bread. We always had [...]
It has been a challenging week having Evans in the hospital. What is so heart-warming is the willingness of so many to spend time with him. He has had someone with him for the entire week and a [...]
It has been an eventful week here at Kings Kids Village. One of our boys took a fall off a bicycle and injured himself. The next day he was complaining of pain in his side. A couple of days later [...]
Many of the kids enjoyed an art lesson and some time to paint with Miss Jane on Saturday. She taught about proper brush strokes and caring for your supplies. She also showed the how to paint [...]
Sunday afternoon, after a time of praise and worship, the kids were treated to a great surprise. Life Church International in Bloomington, Indiana purchased as well as made clothes for each of [...]
Jon, Molly and the family have returned from their brief vacation in Lamu. It was a great time of family bonding, and they were very refreshed. As their van pulled into the compound, all the kids [...]
What joy we experienced as we saw the faces of our kids light up as Sue and I delivered Christmas gifts. Both Sue and Molly spent hours sorting sizes of donated clothes, hand-picking gifts for [...]
What a wonderful week we have enjoyed here at KKV. It is great to day by day see a bit more of the walls for our new school. Progress is going well and we are very excited to see the vision [...]
This Christmas break from school has been a very busy one for us. During this time we try to arrange for our kids to visit relatives in their home villages. Many of our kids have an aunty or [...]
We were blessed by 25 members of our cell link coming for a visit this past Sunday. They blessed us with a catered lunch and spent some time playing games with the kids. “Santa“even came with a [...]
Last Sunday we were blessed to have about twenty-five of our cell link members come to visit us here at KKV. They came and spent a couple hours with the kids playing football (soccer) and other [...]
We were startled by a loud crash early last Saturday morning. After getting out of bed and looking around, we wondered if we were dreaming and went back to sleep. When we were awakened a few [...]
What an amazing day we had this past Saturday! Many of our “Friends of KKV Club” joined us for the official ground-breaking ceremony for the Mary C. Hensold Learning Resource Center. The sun was [...]
Every year in November we at Kings Kids Village send letters to corporations here in Nairobi asking them to consider making a donation. To date three corporations have responded. Windsor Golf [...]
What an amazing week we had here at KKV. We learned that our van would not be out of the shop for us to use on Sunday for church. Rather than make many extra trips with the personal vehicles we [...]
We here at Kings Kids Village are so very excited! Our blueprints for the new building have finally cleared all five steps needed before we can officially break ground. It has been a long process [...]
Just a short note to celebrate the fact that the blue prints for our new building program have cleared all five steps for approval and will be officially ratified in a board meeting set to take [...]
Sunday afternoon was so amazing here at KKV. We had a bus and several personal vehicles come rolling into the compound. About 70 people from the Nairobi Lighthouse Church’s Insight School of [...]
Last Saturday was a wonderful success. Ten of our kids, accompanied by Tray, Jim and Sue, attended the outreach sponsored by the Nairobi Korean Church. There were 15 orphanages from the Kassarani [...]
Wow is all I can say about our Kings Kids this past Sunday. While they were performing “Extraordinary” the congregation was spontaneously giving them standing ovations. They truly are [...]
This entire week, nineteen of our kids have been preparing a presentation for Sunday. Nairobi Lighthouse Church is featuring Kings Kids Village as its mission focus for this month. The [...]
We want to welcome Jon and Tray back to KKV after their trip to Mombassa and Lamu. They had a great trip and left Christen in Lamu for her 3 month mission trip. We can’t wait to hear her great [...]
We have really missed Tray this week. He is our resident genius at keeping the computers running. Our kids are blessed to have computer classes, where they learn typing, measure their reading [...]
We have a new addition! Last Saturday Teacher Nicolas and his wife Tina had a baby girl. Her name is Liora and she weighed in at 4.1 kilos. Mom and baby are doing well. We send a big God bless [...]
We had a wonderful time with “Uncle Bill,” who arrived here last Thursday afternoon. He taught our kids some songs, and they were able to teach him a couple as well. The kids loved the teaching [...]
On Sunday Kristen, Anna and Essy left for a five day mission trip to Kitui with several other teens from Club 8:12, the youth group from Nairobi Lighthouse Church. Their purpose was to serve and [...]
Momma Tabitha returned yesterday from a trip to her home. She took Judy and Sifa to visit their relatives, and also Andrew so he could have an outing with her. While there, Tabitha was helping to [...]
On Saturday we bid a fond farewell to Ian, Emma and Merryn. They came from the UK and were volunteers for a month. They blessed the kids with their great Bible stories, games and crafts. They [...]
July 31st was the closing day celebration here at Kings Kids Village. This year we chose to have it on a Saturday so many friends of KKV could attend. Our kids did an amazing job with the [...]
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 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 [...]
Saturday was a wonderful day here at Kings Kids Village. A team of 12 ushers from Nairobi Lighthouse Church came to hang out with the kids. They spent 4 hours playing with the kids including a [...]
It has been a great week here at Kings Kids Village. Last Friday and Saturday two of our KKV girls, Judy and Essy, along with Kristen and Anna Stern were part of an outreach team from Nairobi [...]
It has been a very busy week here at Kings Kids Village. Excitement is building for the launch of the first ever Kidz House cd from Nairobi Lighthouse Church, entitled “I Can Change My World.” [...]
This week at KKV the Inspection Team from the Department of Childrens Services came to take a tour of our facility. Every three years all orphanages are required to re-register with the [...]
This has been an exciting week here at KKV. Last Saturday, June 12, we were privileged to have Nairobi Pentecostal Church (NPC) Academy come to spend the day with us. Approximately 40 – 50 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last week we got our first new comer to KKV in a long time, but he is not unknown to us. His sister has been with us for close to year as of May, 2010. Our heart has been from day one to do our [...]
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 [...]
We are excited about the next phase in our new website development. This phase does not directly involve our website. We are please to announce the creation of a way for sponsors to interact with [...]
We are really excited about the re-launch of our website complete with our new address, interactive environments, our Friends of KKV sub-site and our new fresh look. As you browse around our [...]
Dear Friends of KKV, This has been a defining week at Kings Kids Village for us. We have been up and running as a home for going on six years in June. We have been so busy building our group [...]
Check out my new blog that will blog my experiences during my trip to Sudan early Feb. 2010. A Heart For New Sudan Enjoy!!!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Friends and Family, It has been a whirlwind beginning to this year as Jon has been the USA with our Stateside kids and family, including KKV founders, Paul and Eleanor Stern. (Jon visited [...]
Due to the lack of discussion on the timing of the launch of our new and improved website and technical delays, we will forward our official launch to sometime in January. Let me know if you have [...]
Dear Friends, The second annual KKV Fun Day is history. The much planning and hard work paid off once again on several fronts. The most obvious benefit is an increase in community awareness of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Friends, We are excited about our new friends who are joining everyday and learning more about us and how to connect with what we are doing here in Nairobi… If you have not joined the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Enjoy! Jon and Molly SternKings Kids Villagekingskids.village@gmail.comP.O. Box 16657 – 00620Nairobi, Kenyawww.kingskidsvillage.netOffice tel: 020-3002123M-Pesa: +254-714-222997
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday marked the fulfillment of a 22 year old dream. Nairobi Lighthouse Church met for the very first time in its own facility… Actually, the facilities do not belong to us yet, but we [...]
Check this out… We have been doing newsletters for the entire time we have stayed in Africa. Hurrah for technology, this is the first time we have been successful in sending the newsletter [...]
This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or [...]
January 2009 will be remembered for many things.. It was the time when many changes happened in the political world. For me it was a time to get our oldest daughter, Lydia, settled into college [...]
Well, the time has come for Lydia to fly… She is now heading for Danville, IL USA to begin her studies. Jon is accompanying her Stateside during the Christmas holidays where she will settle in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Friends, Friday, 8th August will go down in KKV history as a new beginning for the home. It was the evening of our much worked for and anticipated promotional dinner at Nairobi’s [...]
As a step to invite the Kenyan public to join hands with us in this great venture, we are holding a Dinner function at The Grand Regency on the 8th of August 2008, occasion will start at 6.30pm [...]
This is a new day at Kings Kids Village. We are in the middle of a campaign to secure local corporate sponsorship for KKV. For those of you who know us well, you know Molly and I are not [...]
Nairobi Lighthouse Church, the church we are linked to here in Nairobi, worshipped every Sunday for 13 years in a soccer stadium. That era has come to an end as the stadium was closed for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Friends and Family, Greetings from Nairobi on the day after Thanksgiving… We are just about to sit down to a thanksgiving dinner a day late. Here, we have to set our own American [...]
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 [...]
Dear all, Most of the Stern family are heading back to Kenya on the 15th and 16th to be there for a team we are hosting from Rantoul, IL. Our good friends, John and Barb Bonacorsi, who as a [...]
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 [...]
Dear Friends, I wanted to share with you the update on the hospital bills. The total amount we put on our credit cards for them is about $4900. So far we have received $1611. We are still [...]
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, I am a bit shocked to see I have not posted since July 21st. This Has been a month filled with focusing our attention to the running of the home, re-furbishing the guest-house and [...]
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 [...]
These are some of the projects we have been doing here at KKV. The Water tower and tanks are almost complete and already in use. We are enjoying great water supply and lower power bills to get [...]
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 [...]
The rains have brought out some unwanted guests. This happened about 10 days ago… This thing looks quite harmess… Don’t be decieved… This thing is so bad that it is biting [...]
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 [...]
We have been waiting the registration of our company for over a year and a half and it is finally registered. Actually we have been waiting to be registered since November 2002. We were trying to [...]
Dear Friends, It’s hard to believe that it has been a month since my last post to our blog. It really betrays our busyness in the last month… We have going full bore on the water [...]
Dear Friends and Family, Love is once again in the air over the Stern Family household… It is our pleasure to announce the engagement of Amy Johnson to our son, Paul. The engagement has [...]
Greetings from rural Kenya. God is providing for Kings Kids Village. So much has happened in the last week, our heads are spinning… First, God has provided enough money to pay for the Bore [...]
Today saw the pump being lowered to 72 meters and by evening, we had water being pumped out of the well. Tomorrow should see the system supplying water to our reserve tanks as they put on the [...]
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 [...]
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
This project is moving so fast it has been work to keep up with the details. It all started last Friday, Feb 2, when we got a visit from one of the three companies we had purposed to consult [...]
Dear friends, Kings Kids Village is growing again. Ever since we have been back, we have been swamped by requests to take kids. We have started by taking in two boys from a baby home across the [...]