With joy and gladness we would like to thank God for Victor Otieno who was installed as Lector and Acolyte by Bishop Dominic Kimegich, Bishop of Lodwar, yesterday at the MCSPA House of Formation at Cubao, Metro Manila (Philippines). It was a joyful moment to see our friends in Manila joining in to witness this occasion. In his homily, the Bishop urged us to be holy servants of God and true witnesses to the Gospel of Christ wherever we are sent, just like the apostles did. We are all baptised and therefore are sent to bring the Good News.

Bishop Dominic, who was in the Philippines briefly to attend other key events, also blessed the House of Formation which is under the patronage of St. Joseph, patron of vocations, and St. Francis Xavier, patron of the missions.

Congratulations Victor for this step made in your journey to the priesthood!

Lillian Omari -MCSPA

In recent years, we have been able to set up 15 vegetable gardens in the area of Kokuselei, each one of them resulting from numerous efforts due to the difficulties of introducing agriculture in a place where the population had not seen it before. Each of the orchards is an important innovation in this mountainous, rocky and desertic area where grazing has always been the only way to survive.

We had the first meeting of farmers in the area of ​​Kokuselei to share the achievements and problems of this road through which they have decided to journey, and that involves numerous changes in their families and communities. Everyone is happy to have the possibility of producing food and not just depending on the herding of their flocks: unstable and weakened by the constant droughts.

It has been a meeting of pioneers, concrete people who produce their own food for their families, who boost the local economy and who incorporate nutrients and new vitamins into the diet of the Turkanas, who now have previously unknown vegetables and fruits.

The team of missionaries of the MCSPA in Kokuselei gives thanks to all the benefactors who have made possible the water infrastructures and everything necessary to start up these gardens, to the team of the Furrows in the Desert program of the MCSPA in Lobur for journeying with us in this way, and to each of the farmers of Kokuselei  who work for a Turkana without hunger.

Diana Trompetero, MCSPA

I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me and have not let my enemies rejoice over me.O Lord, you have raised my soul from the dead, restored me to life from those who sink into the grave.
Sing psalms to the Lord, you who love him, give thanks to his holy name.His anger lasts a moment; his favour all through life.At night there are tears, but joy comes with dawn.
The Lord listened and had pity. The Lord came to my help.For me you have changed my mourning into dancing: O Lord my God, I will thank you for ever.

Psalm 29:2. 4-6. 11-13.