Jarretts Ministry

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 14

June 29, 2006

Dear Friends and Family:

It’s difficult to believe that this 7th six-month term is over. Although seven is the number of completeness, we plan on returning again in January, 2007. It is always difficult to pack up belongings and memories, say goodbye, and wrap up the ministry for awhile. Thanks for your continuing prayer for the multifaceted ministry here and our travel home.

We will drive to Nairobi tomorrow, spend the night at a guesthouse, and fly out on Saturday night. We depart about 3:45 pm Indy time. We’re scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon about 4pm. Please pray for safety, our passage through security [the girls favorite thing to do], the flight connections, rest on the flight, reentry into the States, and for the final arrival. Seems like the connection in Chicago is often a problem, and we’re hopeful that all the luggage will accompany us.

I wanted to update you on the children’s homes. Last Saturday we went to Bosto Children’s Home. Whatever you might have heard from the girls, the trip out there wasn’t all that exciting. Granted, the brakes mostly quit working when we lost the brake fluid from the master cylinder. But I had some brake fluid with me to add back in, and when that leaked out, I was able to slow down going back down the mountain by using first gear. You don’t really need brakes going up the mountain. The horn

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 13

June 23, 2006

Dear Friends and Family;

Thanks so much for your prayers. We are leaving Tenwek a week from today, so I wanted to update some prayer requests and then, perhaps, write a final letter before we depart.

Today we operated on the 8th grader who had an induced abortion near term; I had mentioned her situation in the last letter. She had a stormy course over the past two weeks with persistent pain in the uterus and a fever that initially went away with antibiotics, but then it returned and increased in magnitude making us believe that she might have an abscess developing. We had been following her with ultrasound examinations, and yesterday we were convinced that we were seeing an abscess develop around the top of the uterus near the ovary.

At surgery we found that the top right portion of the uterus was indeed involved with an abscess that had destroyed the corner where the Fallopian Tube enters. There was also an abscess beneath the tube. We cut away the infected, dead tissue after freeing the small intestine from the area where the uterus had been perforated with an instrument, either during the abortion or in a subsequent curettage where retained placental tissue had been removed. We reconstructed the uterus, so it may be capable of childbearing in the future even though a cesarean section would be required for delivery if she is so fortunate as to get pregnant. She has prayed

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for your prayers. I wanted to update an important prayer request. Peter Kiplangat, the formerly tongue-tied boy, is doing well at Mosop school, as far as schooling and relationships. However, at night he is having terrible nightmares that cause him to scream and cry out, which is very frightening to the other boys in the dormitory. They involve visions of the dead mother and other frightening things. Other Kenyans are fearful of evil spirits -- these beliefs are not far below the surface here. In medical terms, he is having some form of post-traumatic stress syndrome. But spiritual warfare is also a possibility. Would you pray for complete deliverance from this problem?

Our patient who had kidney failure, Lucy, has finished dialysis at Eldoret, but is still having some infection in her body, perhaps in the pericardium, the sack around the heart. Please pray for complete healing for her.

The young men from our home church have returned safely from the expedition in search of Noah's Ark. I have no report on their success or failure as of yet, but they are home safely for which their families are very greatful.

We've had great visits to the orphan's homes, but that's a story for another day. Pray for us as we minister in Sunday services tomorrow. The girls will do music and children's church at Tenwek. I am preaching at a local church.

Paul, for the Jarretts in Kenya for two more weeks.

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Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 12

June 10, 2006

Dear Friends and Family:

We have had an exciting two weeks and are continuing to enjoy having more family with us. The girls helped lead music for the worship service at Tenwek and will probably do so for the reminder of the time here. I’m in charge of the worship service tomorrow as a favor for Mike Chupp who took his family to Nairobi this weekend. Thanks for praying for him; his HIV test has remained negative after a hand injury in surgery on an HIV+ patient several months ago. There is a final test at six months, but it is usually negative if the other tests have remained negative.

We’ve had some exciting developments with the orphanages that I’d like to report. In the last letter, I mentioned that a ministry called World Orphans had agreed to help finance the building of dormitories at Bosto and Kenduiwa. This week I got a report from them that they are partnering with PrayerSong Ministries who will hold a series of concerts in California to benefit these two children’s homes. Then PrayerSong plans a visit at some time in the future to see the homes. I also helped World Orphans to move further along in the process of sponsoring a dormitory for Mosop School and the Laura Children’s home there. [Laura is pronounced Lah OO’ rah here.] Please pray that World Orphans will finance a much needed dormitory there as they have 90

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 11

May 28, 2006

Dear Friends and Family:

I couldn’t believe that I had gone a whole month without a complete letter until I checked the website to verify this fact. Pole sana! That means “very sorry” in Swahili. I found that I had written 4 short prayer request updates during the month, however, so I can’t be accused of totally ignoring you. I’ll use the excuse of a vacation in the middle of the month as a reason for not writing. We do appreciate your prayers very much.

This week we are entering our final month of this term. It seems to us that it has gone very fast, but that’s how life seems to be at our ages. We have really enjoyed having family here with us for the past month. And we’re not finished yet with family visitors. Susanna and Chris leave on the night of May 30th while Debbye and Becki fly in on the morning of May 31st. The way I figure it, they should pass each other in the dark somewhere over France. Debbye and Becki will leave the US from separate cities on Monday evening but plan on finding each other at Heathrow airport and touring London during a 14-hour layover. Please pray for safety for travel for all of them. Also pray that they will be able to get an extra bag allotment on check-in Monday night and that the luggage will make it with them intact.

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for your prayers for travel safety. We just got back from our week in Mombasa. We had a great time and no travel problems. Chris and Susanna made it in on Saturday night, and their bags came on Sunday morning, in time to pick up for the trip to Mombasa. They were able to get the 2 extra bags without cost from American Airlines. More later. Paul, for the Jarretts in Kenya

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for your prayers for our family and for Kenya. It sounds as if the fuel shortage situation has been addressed, if not totally solved, so we are planning on continuing our trip to Mombasa on Sunday.

Please pray for Susanna and Chris as they leave the US on Friday afternoon with arrival in Kenya on Saturday night [about 2pm Indy time]. Please pray that on check-in at Indianapolis the American Airlines ticket agent will allow them to take the 2 extra bags of orphan clothing without charge, since British Air has waived the fee from Chicago to Nairobi. Pray that all the bags will make it without damage. [One bag was destroyed on Amy's trip - pray that BA will repair or replace it when we take it with us to the airport -- However, Amy failed to report the damage, so it may not be an obligation for them to help. Also pray for Susie and Chris's flights and passage through customs.

Pray for our trip to Nairobi on Saturday and our drive to Mombasa on Sunday with return to Nairobi next Saturday and to Tenwek on Sunday. Road conditions vary from great to terrible on different parts of each leg of the journey. Pray for safety for our time in heavily Muslim Mombasa -- we actually stay at the beach 20 miles south, but pass through the city.

Armed robbery is on the increase in Kenya. When the winner of the Boston and

Dear Friends and Family:

We have a prayer request for the upcoming week. Our daughter and son-in -law Susanna and Chris Gordon are coming this weekend, to arrive in Nairobi on Saturday night. Our plans are to pick them up and drive to Mombassa with them for a week's vacation before returning to Tenwek for the week.

There is a looming fuel shortage this week in Kenya. It has to do with the Kenya Revenue Authority demanding payment from the oil companies and pipeline companies by online payments instead of by check as has been the practice. There was no warning given, so everything shut down in the fuel distribution network; many places in the country are expected to run out of diesel and gasoline during the week. Some places already are out of diesel or gasoline or kerosene. Hopefully, it is a temporary situation, but this will naturally affect many lives - about 48 million people, including our plans for Mombassa potentially.

We have enough fuel to get to Nairobi and back to Tenwek if that's what we decide to do instead. Please pray for a quick resolution to this crisis. Thanks for your prayers. God is in control.

Also, we are driving 80 kilometers today for a visit to Bosto Children's Home after our worship service this morning. Please pray for a safe trip and one that will be productive for God's Kingdom.

Paul

PS: Last time Chris and Susie came

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for praying for our girls and all the travel arrangements. They even arrived a bit early on Wednesday night with all their luggage. They had no trouble with customs and were in great spirits.

Our trip to Nairobi and back was fine. I got my driver's license renewed in Narok without so much of a hassle as it can be in the States. I easily found the office where I was supposed to go and was asked only if I wanted 1 or 3 years renewal. I was done in about 4 minutes. The road past Narok is in bad shape, so it took over four hours driving in the rain to Nairobi. Coming back it was dry and took 20 minutes less.

We sat through lunch on both Wednesday and Thursday while terrific lightning and rain storms took place. We were eating on a porch restaurant on Thursday and lightning was striking all around. At one shopping center there were 9 vehicle alarms set off by the storm - what a racket! There was flooding in many areas of Nairobi so we stayed out of the downtown area where traffic tends to get paralyzed.

Thanks for praying for Joyce, the Turkana missionary. She is slowly improving, but still suffering from having had a major seizure and high blood pressure. Please pray for a complete recovery.

Marty, Amy, and I all have parts in the worship service on Sunday. Please pray for protection from

Dear Friends and Family:

Please pray for Amy and Elissa; they are now on their way to Kenya. Pray for good flights and connections as well as safety. Elissa says that she is apprehensive about security checks. Pray that they will have no difficulty in going through customs in Nairobi.

Also, pray that I can get my Kenya driver's license renewed tomorrow as we go through Narok. Marty reminds me that we should take nothing for granted here. Doesn't seem like a biggy, but who knows? Also, pray that our car will work well for us. It worked flawlessly on a long trip last week with Dr. Myers.

Please pray for one of my patients, Joyce, who is a national missionary to the Turkana people. She had an eclamptic seizure 48 hours after delivery and is very slow to recover total consciousness now some 48 hours after the seizure.

Thanks so much for your prayers.

Paul, for the Jarretts in Kenya