Hi. I hope you're visiting because you're curious about why I'm raising money for a friend. Last year I visited Kenya to see what's going on with the well-drilling project there. While there I met Simon Muntolo, a minister/evangelist among the Massai people in the Rift Valley. Simon's daughter had had surgery, and he and his family continue to labor under the weight of unpaid obligations for that surgery. I'm trying to raise around $4,000 total to help pay to relieve Simon from these debts. (While $4,000 sounds like a lot to us, in Kenya the equivalent is more like $40,000!)
During the season of Advent I plan to post something each day -- a poem or poems, a song, a lyric, a photograph, or some other image of something I've created -- to help stimulate your imagination as you observe the season. I'll be basing my works, for the most part, on the Daily Office. (I'll include Scripture links each day)
If you're blessed by what you read and experience, please send a check to Pascack Reformed Church (make it out to the church, not to me!!!!!) and note it on the memo line as the "Simon Muntolo Fund." The address is 65 Pascack Road, Park Ridge, NJ 07656.
I'm hoping we can relieve this debt by the time Christmas comes, so please, tell your friends to come to this blog and give it a look.
Thanks! -- I'll be sending facebook reminders as we draw nearer to the season of Advent....