Below is an email and prayer request from Tom Stickney, VRBC-supported missionary and director of African Christian Outreach (ACO).
ACO Partners,
We are asking
that you pray for
safety. This time of the year crime rises in Nairobi, carjackings
double, home invasions are more frequent, and petty theft is rampant. We take
precautions as a family and ministry by adding extra security at night for the
compound, know the exact routes we are driving from place to place, watch for
following cars, stay in at night, limit travel within the country to needed
trips only, etc. However, the past few days Nairobi has had some issues. The
public transportation system has gone on strike because of new traffic laws
that will take effect December 1st. This leaves 4 million people walking to
work or not able to get to work. Riots in the city have shut-off most main
roads and violence in the downtown area has begun to spread, making backroads
and shortcuts dangerous as well. Unfortunately it is a few that create the
havoc, but there is enough of them for violence to spread quickly throughout
the country.
Pray for these things:
1. Safety for our Students & Staff as they finish up
the semester and begin traveling home.
2. Safety for the Stickneys as they shrink their world
to just a few kilometers around school, home and shopping.
3. Tom flew to the US
November 30th. Pray for safety for Kerry and kids as he is away.
4. Pray for God's ANGELS to surround the ACO
Compound, kids' & Kerry's school, and our staff homes as they finish up over
the next two weeks.
5. A resolution between lawmakers and public transport
operators to end the strike and get Kenya back to the relaxed country it
usually is.
6. Pray for those who do not have and decide to resort to
taking from others at this time of year.
Thank You, we will try and keep you updated.
Tom Stickney
Executive Director
African Christian Outreach
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