Greetings dear friends and family,
We hope you are enjoying your spring weather and looking forward to summer! Our boys just started term 3 of their school year, so we have a couple more months until summer break begins. We wanted to share with you some exciting changes coming this summer!
We are graduating from the Samaritan’s Purse Post-Residency Program in June! We are so grateful for their support financially, logistically, and spiritually. The program made the transition from living in the US to living in Kenya very smooth. Now that we have been in Kenya for almost 3 years, we are ready to move to a long-term sending agency. We will join Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC) in July and they will be managing us from then onwards as we continue the work in Kijabe.
We are so grateful to those who have donated to help support us so far. As part of the Post-Residency Program, Samaritan’s Purse provided about half of the funding we need to live in Kenya. Therefore, in order to continue working here in Kijabe, we will need to double the amount of financial support we receive from donors. We would be honored if you would consider contributing to our work here in Kenya as a monthly donor.
The contributions are used for a variety of needs. Basic needs for our family such as: school fees for the boys, house rent and utilities, groceries, health insurance and car maintenance. We also use donated funds for community projects like: setting up the children’s library and the quarterly events that we will host, donating to the benevolence fund at the church, supporting friends going through a challenging time – like baby Blessing and her family (she’s doing great, healthy and strong!), medical supplies for the hospital, and helping cover the costs of surgical care. Bryce feels blessed to be able to provide specialized care to patients who otherwise wouldn’t get the help they need. He is also training residents in ENT skills so they can treat these patients, too, both here and in other countries across Africa when they graduate.
We’re excited to join CHSC, a step that solidifies our commitment to continue serving in Kenya long-term. We will attend orientation in Texas in July (pray for us, we haven’t felt temperatures above 80°F in 3 years!) Bryce has been blessed with the opportunity to join the team at the University of Kentucky as an assistant professor and he will work at the hospital for a few weeks this summer. That will help him keep up credentials in the US. UK is hoping to send ENT residents to Kijabe to work with Bryce in the future, we are very excited about this possibility.
Thank you for joining with us. Thank you for following along with our lives as we serve in Kenya. Thank you for your prayers, emails, texts, and encouraging words. Thank you for your donations and support, we are prayerfully trying to be good stewards of every contribution. There are many challenges living in Kenya, but also many blessings. With the support of so many brothers and sisters, we feel uplifted and assured that we are where the Lord wants us to be.
We humbly ask for your prayers:
Please pray that more donors would feel led to support us. We need to raise an additional $4,800 per month and $40,000 annually. Here is the link to our page on CHSC’s website where you can donate: https://www.healthservicecorps.org/staff/the-noblitt-family/. All the remaining funds in our Samaritan’s Purse account will be transferred to our CHSC account at the end of July. If you’re interested in becoming a monthly donor, we’d love to hear from you—thank you for prayerfully considering it. Only the Lord knows when we will be led back to the US, for now we are joyfully serving Him in Kenya and will continue the work here until we’re called back to the US.
Please pray as we continue to set up the library and for the grand opening. It takes a long time to get 7,000 books organized, labeled and ready for the children! We are planning the ribbon-cutting ceremony that will be held in June. We are so thankful for the love and prayers poured into this library project by all of you!
Please continue to pray for the ENT department at AIC-Kijabe hospital. They are trying to decide the next best step as they expand the program, even while they manage the ever-increasing list of surgical patients.
Kenya Hear 