Anne Margaret

Well, right now I am recovering from blood clots in my lungs. Been in the hospital five days and now at home with the Visiting Nurses and can't do much. I happen to be the founder and president of Anajali Ministries and have been doing this for 10 years. I work with a school in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi, Kenya, which is a Christian school that takes children too poor to attend public school because of the constraint of fees. Since beginning this work in 2007, I have made 20 trips to Kenya taking teams with me to work at the school with the children. The school started in 2000 with seven students. When I saw it in 2007, There were about 300 students and the teachers had not been paid in 6 months because of no money. They were considering closing. God led me to start this mission and now there are over 600 students and 25 staff and faculty. God has provided so that the teachers have been paid every month since then. I tell you all this because I have not been able to do anything since having these blood clots. I will be 75 in a couple of months. I think God is trying to tell me that I need to step back and have others help take the reigns so that when I pass on to be with Jesus, the work to help these children will continue. If any one wants to check out what I do, www.hecareskenya.org is the Anajali website. Maybe I will return to the health I had before all this happened to me. However, if I don't, that is okay because I know Jesus and I know that these present trials have come "so that my faith, of greater worth than gold which perishes eventhough refined by fire, may be proven genuine and may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."

I would say that someone who says he is a Christian but identifies more with the world has never really met Jesus. Or if he/she had really met Jesus, the world offered something he/she really valued and the person lost sight of Jesus. A real ploy of Satan. His desire is to keep us from following Jesus. The only way to keep close to Jesus is to spend time in the Word. Since I have been so sick, I have had a lot of time to read. I am struck with how often God tells us to obey Him. If our eyes are on the world, we cannot see what God wants us to do. He wants us to love, give, serve, as God tells us because we love Him not because we have to. When Jesus is the most important, it is easy to follow Him. When the world or something in the world becomes most important Jesus cannot be. I pray that I will always be on guard not to let the world in. I'm not perfect, but I do love Jesus.