A Praise and a Concern

This week has been both a week of concern and also a week of praise.  Praise God that He watches over His own. It is well known that though Kenya is a beautiful country it has many of the same problems with crime that many of the western countries but probably in higher numbers.  The people of Kenya are some of the most friendly people I have ever met, but  because of poverty and drugs, people become desperate and turn to theft and other crimes. RVA campus is completely surround by a high security fence with all but a small portion of it covered by razor wire. Three nights ago a thief who had escaped from a previous arrest and was addicted to drugs managed to get over the portion of the fence without the razor wire and break into the the tenth grade boys dorm around midnight. He was discovered by one of the boys as he tried to escape and was captured and turned over to the local authorities. This could have been much worse than it turned out for reasons that I won't go into, but I want to post this on the blog for two reasons.  The first reason is that it has caused some fear in one of the students for which he is getting some counseling.  The second reason is that the young man who broke into campus has many problems, but the most important one is that he does not know the Lord as his savior. Please pray for safety of our students and that God will bring peace to the student who is having emotion difficulty. Also pray that God will reveal himself to the desperate man who has to steal to support his drug habit, and that God will be glorified in it all.