Family is generally a term used for our biological relatives. My family consists of my wonderful husband, Matt, our two beautiful daughters, Brianna and Chandra and all of our biological relatives. Also, I am also blessed to have family living in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Phillipines and Kenya. Matt and I are committed to taking care of our family beyond a letter or two a year. We have developed deep and lasting relationships with our overseas family members. We are anticipating the joy and excitement of meeting two more families from Kenya we have been corresponding with over the years. They also will be embraced by our large international family unit. This will be a bittersweet trip as our beloved John died in January of this year and we are deeply saddened that we will not be meeting him and his wonderful spirit we grew to love through our letters. We will be able to meet his wife Mary and her family. Also we will meet Evanson, a young 20 year old man who has been living in an orphanage for a majority of his life because his mother could not afford to take care of him and the rest of his siblings. He is now in the eleventh grade and finds school to be challenging. He has a contagious smile and faithfully writes to us every other month. It amazes me the depth of my feelings I have for people I have never met before yet feel a deep connectionwith because of the letters we have written to each other and the prayers we have said for each other. I am blessed to have John and Mary and their families, as well as Evanson and his family part of my life but most important part of MY FAMILY. Please keep all of us in your prayers as we journey to meet each other. It will be a celebration beyond words. Blessings, Sherry
The anticipation of meeting our family in Kenya
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