Please pray for Alig, Eleanor and Laura ...

Posted on Jun 10, 2008

As I’m preparing to leave for Ndathi again, I have a million things on my mind. Are the chicken wire and fiber blanket I bought to construct a kiln actually going to work? Have I purchased a sufficient amount of chain, tools and beads to train women to make jewelry? Is the land we purchased really going to hold a workplace like the one Laura Valentine designed?

I have to trust that God has gone before me and He is preparing a way for this to happen. I have seen His provision in the past, and I know that the Lord is faithful-to me,to Eleanor Campbell and Laura Valentine, who are traveling with me, to the Kaburu family, to Burning Bush and to the whole community of Ndathi.

I am no business person at all, and yet I’ve been drawn into this jewelry business somehow. I just graduated from Wake Forest in May. I will be entering into a Kemper 5th year fellowship in entrepreneurship there in the fall. During that time I will be taking business and management courses as I am also working to develop the business, Adia Beading. This summer, we hope to train women in Ndathi to make ceramic beads and jewelry. Part of my work in the fall will be trying to find distribution channels for these beads here in the U.S. The idea is to provide the women of the Ndathi community with jobs and stable incomes so that they may provide for their families better and so that the economy as a whole might be boosted.

I can’t wait to see what God has in store for us this month.<