Monthly Archives: April 2023
March 2023 Update
Due to the vicissitudes of life (an app rebooting itself and loosing a completed update, a few bouts of family illness, etc.), we are overdue on sharing an update, for which we apologize. But we are still here in Kenya and still following our calling as faithfully as we can. Each month we receive new thanks from those with whom we are working — sometimes from the Maasai community with which we began our ministries here, last week from one of our Turkana colleagues, and with increasing frequency from around the continent as well. Our lives remain full and we remain fully engaged in the work we are called to do. To read specifics and to see some pictures, read our latest newsletter here.
Also allow us to say publicly that the Penrod family (Christian & Jenny and children) are amazing. Thank you for your ministry to us on your recent visit!
Hosanna !
The Hebrew phrase הוֹשִׁיעָה נָּא <hoshi’ah na> (more technically <hôšî’â(-n)nā’>) means “save us, now!” The phrase occurs in the Psalms. In later usage, the phrase developed a celebratory sense, in effect thanking God in advance for rescuing the petitioners or thanking God now for rescuing the petitioners now. I think both senses were operable on Palm Sunday. In the New Testament this was transliterated as ὡσαννά <hōsanná>.