Cypress Meadows Kenya Trip

In our last post I wrote…

One of the things we hope to do through our trip is to strengthen the connections between Springs of Hope and Cypress Meadows Community Church. We’re asking children at Cypress Meadows to write down in 2-4 sentences their story of how God has impacted their life. We’ll take these stories along with a picture of each child and create a book to bring with us to Kenya. We’ll leave the book their at Springs of Hope so the children there know who some of the children are here who are praying for them.

This past Sunday lots of kids brought in their stories and had their pictures taken.  Thank you kids and parents!  We also got pictures and stories from the 6 of us who will be going to Kenya.  Connie Roeleven did an awesome job of putting together the Cypress Story Book using Shutterfly.  I thought you might like to see a few of the pages.

While at Springs of Hope we’ll do the same thing. We’ll ask the children there to write their story, we’ll take a picture of them, and when we get back to Florida we’ll create a book telling the stories of the children of Springs of Hope. This book will be available for the children and families at Cypress to read so they know who they can who they’re helping and praying for, and how God is writing a great story through their lives.

Connecting SOH and Cypress Through Song

This upcoming Sunday, we’ll be video taping and creating a DVD of songs led by the kids of Cypress Meadows. On the Saturday we arrive in Nakuru, we’ll use that DVD to teach the kids at Springs of Hope the songs and motions. Then the next day when we do the outreach, we’ll have the kids at Springs of Hope lead the music. How cool will that be, not just serving these children, but empowering them to lead their friends?!?

A sample of 2 inside pages of the Cypress Meadows story book (names & stories blurred to keep the kids anonymous)