Message of Giving Thanks from our Son & Wife, Chuck & Terry on the Mission field in Kenya, Africa
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"With Thanksgiving approaching this week I feel compelled to share a unique perspective of Thanksgiving from a third world country. Thanksgiving is an American holiday and is not celebrated here in Kenya. However this week they will have a week of “harvest prayers” to ask God to bless their next crop. This point brings to mind the many things in America we have to be thankful for. When you sit down with your family or friends around a table full of food, take a moment to remember the people of Kenya. Their diet generally consists of one meal per day substituted with hot tea, bread and or a piece of fruit. That one main meal, usually dinner, consists of a corn meal type product called “ugali” and a collar green vegetable known as “sukuma”. Meat is only partaken of with special guests or special occasions. Keep in mind there is no variety with this staple diet and it is eaten most every day. I am thoroughly convinced that many of the health problems experienced here are from malnutrition and inadequate diet. While the people we are working with are not starving to death from a lack of food they are starving their body from a well balanced diet. Yet they are some of the happiest people you will ever met and able to praise God for every blessing of life. We are blessed to be from the land of plenty and the greatest country on the face of the earth. Thank God we don’t have to eat the same thing every day and that we can pick and choose what we want. Enjoy the blessings of God this week and remember to thank Him for His bountiful provision but most of all thank Him for the sacrifice of His Son."
Chuck & Terry Fernandez
Kenya, East Africa
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