I continue to email the past partipants and have contacted approximately 315 so far. I'm only finished through L, which leaves all those people whose names start with M thru Z to go yet. I've been delighted to hear back from some of them!

Some have written things I'd like to share with you today. This first one is a post from Scott Williams' blog. Scott went to Ghana in 2003 with Real Life Mission Teams, has led a couple of Ambassador Teams to Kenya and is currently on staff with AIM in Kenya!

This post is from his web site: http://karanjaroad.blogspot.com/ for today:

It is with great dismay yet a sense of hidden adventure that I report the return of the mice. Just last night I found myself back in the African Bible College, teaching future pastors of Kenya. It had been two weeks since I was there as I was detained by travel for a part of the time and sickness the other. Regardless, I returned back to the base following the class and learned that there had been a mouse sighting in the community house, not far from the death of the last one.

At best I have rationalized the return to a new generation of mice. I am not sure how long it has been since the last one was slain, yet I have a notion that the second generation of mice have been born and reached maturity. This second generation of mice do not know of the carnage that was previously unleashed on their ancestors. As a result, history shall repeat itself. These will come, they will be destroyed and their efforts will be mocked by us for weeks to come.

Apart from this bit of exciting information, we continue to spend time living large in Kenya. Life on Karanja Road continues to be rainy and cold at times. However, our spirits cannot be dampened nor frozen as the fiery ministry of the Father is in our midst daily. I will continue to keep you posted on the happenings and delight in your continued interest in the happenings of Kenya. "

Next is an update from Megan Jahnke, who is currently in Swaziland with Real Life:

"Hey friends and fam, just dropping an update to say hi!  It's less than a month before I am home, and thanks so much for all of your prayers.  Things have been great and we've done so much in the past few weeks.  We went to a wild game park and saw zebras and monkeys and swam in a waterfall.  A goat came into our kitchen because someone left the door open.  I have to tell cows to get out of the way to get to the bathroom hole.  The fat chicken had baby chickens that hatched and they are always walking around and I want to pick one up and put it in an Easter basket.  The little things in life here are pretty humerous. 

I have grown so much and God's shown me so much while I have been here.  This week we have been profiling lots of the children at the "carepoints" where they are fed every day.  It breaks my heart to hear a 3 year old say that he walks an hour by himself every day to get to the carepoint to be able to eat.  Most of the children have lost one or both parents to AIDS, or else their father has other wives so they are neglected, or abuse from alcoholism, and the list goes on. 
It's hard to see hope through all the need here, but God shines through everything and to see see people laugh and hear them smile is enough. 

I helped proctor a Swazi standardized test for 7th graders, its funny how much trust you get in 3rd world countries just because you are American. 

We are helping at a youth event this weekend where there will be over 2,000 youth from all around Swazi and so I am praying that God will do amazing things through that.  It's getting pretty hot here and their school is almost out for the year.  They are on a completely different schedule than us because the weather is opposite, and their Christmas is part of the hottest time of the year. 

We are writing a Christmas pageant for one of the schools to be performed in front of tons of people, not really tons but they said between two and three thousand, and it should be pretty funny because we all we know how to say in Siswati is "Hi how are you" and "yes" and they know about the same in English. 

We are still going to the hospital frequently.  Some people go to the children's ward and women's ward to hang out and pray with people there, and others go to the pharmacy to help them count pills. 

We have made friends with the people at the gas station in front of the hospital, and they sing for us and we have to dance for them before we can buy anything.  They all assume white people can dance, funny.  Also they all ask if we know Beyonce and also sometimes 50 Cent and some random wresltler guy that is apparently from America.  The people are awesome here. "

There are others out there......
Tara Cole (Jamaica RLMT 2004) has just returned from China, after being there for a year.
Jana Quigley (India Summer RLMT 2005) has been in China for several months, teaching English and is hoping to one day return to India.
Tanya Metzler (Peru RLMT 2003) is in Peru ministering right now.
Ashley Musick (New Zealand RLMT 2004) is finishing up her time with AIM's World Race.
Chris Telfer (Amazon Jungle, Peru RLMT 2006) is getting ready to do the World Race.
Anne Stoehr (Kenya 2005 RLMT) is currently in Kenya doing ministry.

There are so many more that I know I'm not recalling right now. What a blessing to see the fruit that the Lord continues to harvest!