A Summer of Unexpected Blessings

Summer 2021 has been full of unexpected blessings for Ageno.

One of our friends of the Ageno Community, Jane Maxvill, contacted me in May about donating school supplies. She was retiring and wanted to give them to our school. She mentioned this to her daughter, Susanna Webb, a school counselor at Curtsinger Elementary in Frisco. Their school was being refurbished this summer and teachers were instructed to clean out their rooms. The response was overwhelming! It took the Maxvill family over three dozen trips with cars packed to the brim to bring all their donated supplies, educational materials, furniture, and books. An amazing number of books! All the items filled our garage and overflowed into the house. These amazing teachers truly showed the spirit of Frisco Independent School District.

As I mentioned in my earlier posts, we had planned to travel in June 2021 to start construction of Ageno Center in Kendu Bay, Kenya. On June 18th, 2021, we headed to Kenya to start building. Unfortunately, we were confronted by a series of roadblocks. First, there was additional approval paperwork required that took longer than we had anticipated and which we had expected to finalize during the first of our three weeks in Kenya. Secondly, our architect in Kenya was quarantined for a good part of our stay in Kenya.

We were disappointed to realize that we could not do much to build under the circumstances, but we yield to the Lord’s control over this matter and consider it another blessing that will be revealed in God’s time for, according to His Word, “there is a proper time and procedure for every matter” (Ecclesiastes 8:6).

We are scheduling another trip for either the Thanksgiving Week of November or the second half of December by which time we hope to have finally started building.

Please pray that the Lord would open the door for us to start building.

Lydia Owallah