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Strong relationships were formed as a result of the December visit to Kenya - so strong, in fact, that it looks like Colin and and his wife Joy will be heading a team of seven people from the UK and US to go out to another pastor's conference in Nairobi in May. Your prayers for wisdom, guidance and resources would be much appreciated! We were able to send the computers due to the generosity of staff at Kenyan Airways, who gave us a lot of help in getting the computers to Nairobi safe and sound. We give them many thanks!
Praise God, Derek Perry, project coordinator for the Great
Lakes (Africa) Mission, was given some names to contact (from a 'chance'
meeting in a local builder's merchant). He was able to contact the right
man in the right place at the right time, and two weeks later, nearly
three tons of useless equipment was scrapped, crushed and removed. Huge
thanks to Viridor for their help in allowing us to get rid of so much
junk safely and legally.
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February, we sent three fully equipped computer systems to Nairobi to
assist Bishop John Bosco Muchanga, leader of several Shield of Faith churches
in Kenya. Colin Bond (pastor of Tavistock Community Church) met John Bosco
when he was teaching at a pastor's conference in Kenya on his visit to
Africa last December. Colin was impressed at John Bosco's faithful efforts
to reach out - with very few resources - to the poor communities in and
around Nairobi city centre. 
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a different note, we have finally managed to get rid of much of the computer
junk that we have accumulated in the last two-and-a-bit years. When we
started collecting computer equipment (back early in 2001 - how long ago
it all seems now!), we very enthusiastically collected huge amounts of
stuff that didn't work. Not only that, it was beyond our meagre technological
capabilities to get it working. The result? - a growing pile of unsightly
and rusting junk that most local tips wouldn't touch unless accompanied
by large sums of cash...