Though there be no maize in the field...

The drought has settled in around Makindu. The blasted corn crop pictures the days of famine ahead for these poverty-stricken people:

From where will their help come?
Recently brother Lawrence traveled to visit some of the people in their homes.

Here Dominic shares his testimony at a Bible study. "He is a very humble brother, very keen to know the truth and live it," the minister says. "He is learning slowly, after the Lord healed his wife of a serious case of ulcers. She was hospitalized for two years, but she never got healed. When we met, she was desperate and hopeless. But the Lord has now healed her and they are rejoicing."

This sister is newly saved, and was "very happy after the service in her home."


Here brother Dominic stands in his failed maize crop. "Not a single maize cob to harvest. He had a reasonable harvest of beans however, which is family is now enjoying. He shared some with us," Lawrence says.

Despite the reality of hard times ahead, these people are finding reason to rejoice. As Habakkuk of old, is it not our privilege to lift our eyes above the circumstances...

to the Maker of heaven and earth, the God of our salvation? Let us continue to pray for these dear ones as they look to their very present Help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1)