But the rest of the day was great - tiring, but great. I looked at some more land for the building of one of the orphan homes that Arch and his wife have donated for. And I checked in on the status of the Turkana church plant. It’s going really, really well. And, best of all, I got a visit from baby brian, #1. I tell him to call me “nanya” which means grand-ma in Kiswahili. Tereza (his mom) brought him by. She knows that I love to cuddle and spoil him. Tereza is 15 years old and was pressured to abort baby Brian when she got pregnant unexpectedly last year. She had actually already been forced to start some of a process they do here by taking something they call “medicine,” but I urged her not to continue it and not to listen to those who were pressuring her. She didn’t want to abort her baby. That was obvious. She was scared. And shaking. In Kenya, many times the pregnant teen also dies during the process because it is so unregulated and dangerous. Tereza was crying and saying they were making her do it because they said,  ‘how can we feed another mouth?’ and ‘how will you finish school?’ I told her I would help her ---- that God loves her baby and her and to trust him. I told her that since she  had finished half of a school year, we would use the other half of the sponsorship amount given for the year (from Brian & Joni Miller) to go toward her hospital delivery bills, start-up needs for a new baby and food.  The school told her to take the rest of the school year off and that when school resumes in January, they would enroll her back in it again and we would arrange to have someone watch little Brian during the day. I understand teen pregnancy. I was 18 and pregnant. And I know it doesn’t have to be the end of your life. If you have a support system of people who care for you and love you and walk with you through it and if you believe in and trust in God’s mercy, forgiveness and grace, you can come out the other side even more blessed than you ever were before because you learn so much about God’s faithfulness, grace and mercy and that helps you to have more faith in your life and to be more compassionate toward others. I was sooo scared, though, that little Brian might have been damaged somehow by the beginning of the process of the abortion attempt BUT he was born healthy and smiley and adorable.

  He is absolutely the most calm, smiley and pleasant-natured baby I have ever seen.

Pop over to the myTube link (above) for a video-story of a woman named Susan.