This past year has been a year filled with challenges and new hope & vision for Heartbeat Ministries!
We have also seen exponential growth in both the farm and in the school projects.
At the farm, they now enjoy the farm animals including milking cows and lots of chickens, as well as the fruit trees and vegetable gardens. I guess you could say we definitely have mixed farming now. The team at the farm are also taking great care to keep the land cleared and trimmed, pruned, and in line with all of this, planting new types of fruit trees, and grafting others as they continually grow in knowledge. We’ve had a great choice of vegetables such as the regular ones of cassava, soyabeans, etc. And they have added new types of beans, sugar, cane, mangu vegetables, sweet potatoes, carrots, and learning to try different sources for food.
Heartbeat has finally completed the buying of the last piece of the farm land to complete our farm property. We thank God so much for leading and guiding us at the correct time, for the many simple and complicated items needed by the lawyers, necessary for this sale. We give thanks to God and although it’s been a long and tedious process, we praise God that we are at the end of a long awaited clearance of the title deed. For Heartbeat Ministries the only thing remaining, is to pay the necessary taxes, and to have the title deed transferred into our name.
The school is also doing well at this point. Through a dear friend, God directed us to our new school administrator, Walter Myloyo and we were so thankful to realize that he is loved and honoured throughout the villages, and from the people who know him. Many of our friends were taught by this man and attested to his integrity. How good is our God?
Jennifer, our head cook, is doing a good job with the cooks and matrons and is now responsible for ordering all the foods for the school, as well as supervising the matrons to make sure that they are getting their work done.
How we thank God for the way, he put everything together for us at the school and for the wonderful Canadian team who helped prepare and clean up the office for Walter, and tidy the school, and to play and spend time helping the teachers with all the wonderful children that attend Father’s Heart school.
Another much-needed project was to set up a small office on the end of the farmhouse. Heartbeat was able to set up the office for the new farm administrator, William. We are praying that through the efforts of Christine, Tammy, and Heartbeat board, we will be able to help them keep timely and accurate records.
We are so blessed to be able to continue with our Bible studies every Friday morning with a full team for the first time.
Both the staff from the farm and the school are meeting together to study the word of God. The response has been wonderful from both teams, and I consider myself incredibly blessed to be able to lead the study of Mark.
It has given me indescribable joy to see how transparent both the teachers and farm workers are becoming with me, and with one another. I am so blessed to see the way they share their struggles as well as their victories. I really believe having the Canadian team there for a month, building relationships with them, getting to know them, loving them, and listening to them and their concerns has brought about a beautiful unity that only God could build.
And out of this group are several young men and women who already are, or they want to be pastors. Aloice in particular, a young, on fire pastor, who loves the word of God, visiting the sick and praying for everyone he meets, also took on the responsibility of working with a small group of pastors in our cement, water tank, to study God’s word. They will graduate with the Re Forma course, now required by the Kenyan government, as credentials, to run a church in the future. We congratulate the Aloice for his own graduation from the course in Mombasa, last week, where they appointed him to take the Re-Forma course back to the villages and to let the pastors know they will also need these credentials to continue with their churches. Although a big responsibility, Aloice is thrilled for the opportunity to help others.
Our 2025 trip to Kenya included an amazing team of 15 Team members who worked and prayed so very hard. Those four weeks saw such a great deal accomplished in the Lord. What a wonder our God is, as He hand chose each member of the team, and then accomplished such great things through each one! Praise his wonderful name!
We are now looking to God to provide for a small piece of land in the Greenbelt area of Bura, in order to dig a well and solar system to pump water to the farm and thus enable us to plant and rotate crops year-round. We know whatever God gives us VISION for , he will supply.
Our God is always faithful, and He is so good lavishing his love on the people of Bura and all the surrounding villages. Truly, he kept his word, and has moved the tent, pegs back greatly, expanding his growth and love to many many villages and people. We are so happy to give him all the glory that He so richly deserves.
Submitted by Elaine Passey / director of Heartbeat Ministries