Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone! We have been really experiencing some cold, winter weather here in Ruston. I will gladly welcome the African heat! The girls have loved the new addition of the Christmas tree to our living room. (Anything shiny and sparkley is always welcome to a house of three little girls!) We are so glad to spend this holiday season with tons of family and friends and have found a few moments already bitter sweet as we think about what the next few months will bring. God has been so faithful to our family and is continuing to pull us strongly to Kenya. We are astouned to announce that we have raised 95% of our monthly support needed! We praise God for all he has done. If you are on our mailing list be expecting some updates soon! If you are not, then sign up by poping us an email!!!

Lainey

Lucy...she loves anything miniture. Who doesn't?

Our family tree decorating  always includes homemade gingerbread  (Bobby Flay's recipe) and homemade hot chocolate..."in Mama and Daddy's mugs."

Well, I said it has been cold here, it forced us to get creative This is goop.  A combination of constarch, water and baking soda.  I guess we could call it an unstable liquid? Really fun to play with and get messy!

Lucy

Lainey

Weekend at the Mac Shack (a friend's cabin on lake D'Arbonne) with Iverstines. Sweet Avery!

A visit with Kaylee! She is getting so big.

Sister fun.

Dinner and Destinations

I am so excited about Dinner and Destinations! Thanks so much Robyn and Stephanie for putting all this together for us! Looking forward to meeting and mingling with new folks at The Bridge!

Hello beautiful!

How do you move 1 Kilpatrick family and a bunch of stuff to Kenya?...a FREE 40ft. long container of course! Thanks Jason and Lana! God is so good.

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Pictures from Kenya!!!

We arrived back safely from Kenya and it was an amazing STORM trip! We loved getting to visit our new home with tons of great friends. Lodwar felt like home. Taylor spent an extra week in Kenya and was able to get familiar with the area and have numerous meetings with architects about the official plans for the SEND center! The most significant impact we had from the trip was the overwhelming need for the SEND Center to be built so it can train, support and encourage the indigenous missionaries! We have such an amazing peace about moving there, it is really supernatural. Thanks for all the support and prayers.

Taylor and Sammy Murimi (Director of Share Int'l

Site for S.E.N.D Center!!! 

Sunday school teachers at training hosted by Share

Taylor and Joshua (Share staff member in Lodwar)

village children

That is an ant hill! yikes.

beautiful...it is amazing to see all this brilliant color in the desert!

Safari!

This is a pretty upscale structure in a bigger town we stopped in for van maintenance.

True Turkanas!

My first post....ever!

Hello! This is officially my first post to a blog. Congratulations me! I am going to use this blog to keep all our friends, family and supporters updated with all the latest news and "goings-on" for our family. We will post pictures, prayer request, contact and support information. Just to keep us all connected while we are living in Lodwar, Kenya. I plan to post and add pictures once a week. So be looking!