Jarretts Ministry

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 6, Number 10

April 28, 2005

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks so much for your prayers. We had a great safari – more details to follow. Our local church visit was a success with some added excitement – also more details to follow. And I have some updates on our patients that you have been praying for.

Our friend, Brock Olsen, reportedly is doing well after his surgery for a broken jaw and ruptured eardrum.

On Monday, Russ White operated on Anjaline. She is the young mother with Pott’s disease – a tuberculosis abscess of the spine causing paralysis. Although the approach to the second through fourth thoracic vertebrae is difficult, he was able to drain the abscess and was optimistic that Anjaline has a chance for recovery. I noted on Thursday that she had some significant voluntary leg motion. She’ll be in a back cast for awhile, and there are still opportunities for complications to arise, but we are hopeful for her.

I was saddened to learn on my return to work that Recho had died last week. She had been in the hospital over a month after surgery for obstructed labor. She had developed a wound infection requiring a total of three surgeries, but the week before I left there was some evidence of bone marrow failure; then some jaundice developed the day before I left. While I was gone, it turned into complete liver and kidney failure which is basically untreatable. I don’t know what the cause of all

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 6, Number 9

April 15, 2005

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for your prayers for our patients, orphans, and family. We’re doing well as we prepare to drive to Nairobi tomorrow to take Alicia to the airport. We’ll continue up to Samburu on Sunday. We plan to return to Tenwek on Saturday, April 23. I’m scheduled to preach at a church up past Litein the next day. In fact, I think that I’m preaching 3 of the next 4 Sundays and one Thursday. It seems like it’s always like this near the time for us to leave. Please remember our travels during the next week. We’ll be out of e-mail touch this week, so we may go through some communication withdrawal symptoms. Amy Bemm will have our travel schedule for emergencies: chuckbemm@tenwek.com

Alicia and Laura returned safely from Mombassa. They had a good time of ministry and recreation. I’ll include Alicia’s summation:

Just wanted you to know that our adventure to the coast and back to teach kids at the missionary retreat went so well.... =) Your prayers were greatly felt, and I appreciate it ever so much.

The kids: Laura and I had 8 kids in 3rd-8th grade and taught them during the morning and evening. They were full of energy, but very responsive to authority and lots of fun to be with. They seemed to connect with the messages about restoration and rest in the Lord we shared with them, and we did many projects with shells collected off the

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 6, Number 8

April 8, 2005

Reply to jarretts@tenwek.com

Dear Friends and Family:

I hope that you received the pictures of orphans that I sent from Tenwek recently. Some of you have filters that prohibit attachments, etc. so you might not have seen them. We appreciate your prayers. We have been doing well, and we’ve seen some interesting things this week to report to you.

Laura and Alicia flew to Mombassa today to minister at the World Gospel Mission field retreat. Our family has ministered at this event for the past six years, but it has been held at Brackenhurst outside of Nairobi all the other times. The girls will be ministering to some of the children with Bible lessons while the adults are meeting in another area. Please pray for their safety; they are to return to Tenwek next Wednesday. Then we’ll all drive back to Nairobi on Saturday to take Alicia to the airport. From there we will drive up north to Samburu National Park where the first “Survivor” was filmed. Hopefully, our time will not be as difficult as the TV contestants experienced. We’ll also travel to Aberdare Country Club; we hope to meet with James, the man whom Marty was witnessing to by mail. We have not heard from him. Please keep all these travels in prayer. Travel in remote areas is not my favorite thing to do, but we’re confident that the Lord is with us.

Our patients have been doing fairly well. Anjaline, the mother who