Farming
God's Way Ministry
April 2015
This month has been a
great month with so much work around the compound and in the fields. April began with making field preparations in
Mjomboni and Jimba. We have two small Farming
God's Way plots in Mjomboni with pastor Alphonse, which we will be doing trials
on. We have a field size (1/2 acre) plot in Jimba with pastor Daniel. There are
two smaller trials there, which are a part of that same field. In Mjomboni we are going to be seeing the
differences using anthill soil and NPK fertilizer. In Jimba we will see the difference in goat
manure with woodash and NPK fertilizer.
We have completely finished the planting and applying God’s blanket to
the trials in Jimba. We still need to
finish the rest of the field. In
Mjomboni only one plot has been planted and no blanket added. We will be finishing this trial and the other
one in the next week. The third location
for the trials is at Gertrude’s house where we also have two trials. The first trial has woodash with cow manure
and the second trial only has NPK. They
are completely finished with God’s blanket and growing very nicely. All that is left to do there is continue
keeping weeds out and add a little more blanket as needed. By now the plot in Jimba should be coming up.
We will visit Jimba again this week also.
We will continue visiting all the plots weekly from now until harvest
making sure they are weed free and we will be recording everything.
Pastor Daniels Shamba
Lindsey and I in Gertrude's Field
Grace Landmark Baptist Church Midiani
Gertrude's beans growing nicely
Beginning of Grace Church
Just another normal work day
Pastor Eli and Amina
With all the work and
business that has been going on around here this month, we have had a chance to
get away. Lindsey and I bought a
dog. Just so happens the owners also own
a very nice resort near Mombasa. So when
I picked Lindsey and Ashley up from the airport in Mombasa we stayed the night
with one of our friends. She is also a
missionary. The following day we all went to South Coast and spent the weekend
there while we bought our dog. It was a very nice relaxing weekend. I have never been one to just sit around, but
I guess with all the business I was tired, therefore I sat on the beach and
read all weekend.
The latter part of this
month has been spent working in the fields, around the compound; on the Land
Rover and on the buggy we bought for Singwaya trips. Here in the compound we
have constantly had problems with our security lights so James and I fixed four
big 500 watt flood lights that now make our yard look like a football stadium
at night. Two days after getting all of
it done the power lines that run to our house fell on the wire, which runs the
lights. It did not tear up anything, but
I do have to re-hang some wire. The dune buggy we bought has had a gas leak in
the tank so we’ve gotten that all welded up.
Now I just need to finish putting the buggy back together.
The most awesome part
of this month was being a very small part of starting the Midiani church. Early
Sunday morning James, Lynn and I left for Mombasa to be a part of the baptisms
and the starting of the church. When we
got to Mombasa the clutch in the new Land Rover stopped working. We looked at it and realized that the problem
wasn’t the clutch, but the fact that there were no bolts holding the
transmission in, therefore allowing the clutch to push the transmission. We
managed to get three bolts in it, which fixed our problem temporarily allowing
us to continue on. James and I got to assist pastor Elli with baptisms by
carrying him to the water and stabilizing him in the water since he is disabled.
Brother Lynn got to preach.. I cannot explain how great that day was watching a
group of believers come together and make that covenant before God. Wow. Pray with us for more to come.
Prayers
Please pray with us for
the fields to produce a great harvest. Pray for the churches here. Pray that
the lord will open doors among the Orma and Pokomo tribes as we travel north in
the next two weeks.
Support
Needed
Monthly Support: Support is now at 85 percent and we are still praying the Lord through
His churches will help reach our final goal.
Clayton & Lindsey Howell,
Farming God's Way Ministry of Pauline Missionary Baptist Church PO Box 299
Monticello, AR. 71657, 870-367-3085
