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

Dear Family and Friends,

This August, I will be leaving to go to Japan. I went to Japan two years ago with my youth group on a trip for two weeks. I completely fell in love with Japan, and God has placed a burden in my heart to go back ever since then. I will be living there for a year in a city called Sapporo. While there, I will teach conversational English. Along with teaching English, my other responsibilities will be to work with the youth ministry, serve in the outreach ministry- planning, performing, tracts distribution, etc., and also to study Japanese.

I will be living at a church with the pastor and his family. Pastor Kamidate and his wife have 4 daughters, and live at the church in an upper apartment. This church is the same that the youth group from my church has been partnering up with in the summer to do short term mission trips and that I visited before.

Japan is a country that needs God. In Japan only one out of every two hundred people is a Christian. The main religion there is Buddhist. Japan needs to hear the truth about God’s love and the relationship that is available to them through Jesus Christ. God has placed a burden in my heart to share this truth with the Japanese people, and I pray that this year in Japan will give me many

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.

Reply to pauljar@gmail.com

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