Dear Praying Friends and Family,

We want to thank you for your prayers for our family during this past 
month.  It has been a whirlwind!  Bob and I flew to the US to see 
Christi's graduation.  It was so very fun to see her walk across the 
platform to receive her degree in International Business (Spanish 
minor)!  It was a special treat being on the Union campus to see how 
God has provided for the school after the devastation of the February 
F4 tornado.  We were not even sure for a while whether the seniors 
would be able to complete this semester and yet, God provided!

Then four days later, we returned to Kenya, accompanied by both 
Christi and Abi.  The boys were so thrilled to see their sisters.  
Rob's high school graduation was also wonderful.  Being the chair of 
the school's Board of Governors, I was privileged to give him his 
diploma, as I did with both the girls!  Leaving our school, Rosslyn 
Academy, was a bit tougher for Rob than he anticipated.  He finally 
figured out that since he's the only graduate who's been at this 
school since kindergarten, he's seen many friends come and move, but 
he himself has never been the one saying "good bye."

The six of us were together for the first time in almost a year and a 
half!  What a blessing to be able to be present at these special 
events in the lives of our children, making family memories for a 
lifetime!

This past week, the boys have been at a nearby Christian camp; Zac 
attended - Rob was a counselor to middle school boys.  This year Zac 
completed the "Lion's Pride Challenge", which is an endurance test 
involving building a fire and keeping it going all night, keeping 
completely silent all night, running a 2.5 kilometer sprint at 6 AM 
up and down hilly trails at 7800 feet above sea level, memorizing 5 
Bible verses/passages, and writing an essay on the meaning of the 
experince.  He's the first of our four and only one of ten campers 
(total) to successfully complete this in the 7 years of this Camp!  
He received a bowie knife with a lion's head and a lot of 
congratulations from other campers!  Robby has headed back to camp 
for another week of fun with middle school boys!  We are very blessed 
that all our kids have had this tremendous experience of Camp 
Brackenhurst!

The girls are enjoying time at home.  And we are surely glad to have 
them here!  Christi and Abi have been catching up with old friends 
who are also in town, drinking chai, getting medical check-ups, 
playing board games with Mom and Dad, shopping, and generally 
relaxing after a very difficult semester (especially Christi in her 
final one!).  We have thoroughly enjoyed our children at every age, 
but it is a wonderful new experience to engage our adult daughters in 
conversations ranging from the plight of the world's poor, to 
presidential positioning, to fads of body piercing, and the priority 
of seeing all this from God's perspective.  We have studied God's 
Word and prayed together and, in short, had a marvelous time.

Christi leaves today to return to Jackson in order to pack up and 
move to Nashville, where she plans to find a job in marketing.  
Please pray with us that she will clearly discern God's will for her 
in the workplace.  Abi and Robby will leave later in June.  Bob, Zac 
and I leave at the end of the month, arriving in Little Rock on 1 
July.  We are mostly looking forward to time with family, as well as 
helping Robby prepare for living in the US, not just visiting there.  
Zac and I will only be stateside for about five weeks, leaving on 7th 
August in order to get settled back in our house here and get started 
in school the next week.  Zac will be in 11th grade and I will again 
be teaching the high school cooking class, as well as continuing my 
role on the school Board.

This has surely been a month of changes!  Thank you for your prayers 
for our family during this time of adjustment.  Please also pray for 
Bob as he puts Maasai ministry on hold for a couple of months, and 
gets recharged for the fall!

We so depend on your prayers!  Thank you for standing with us!

Celebratin' Jesus,

Bob and Nancy
R.L. Calvert, DMin.
Maasai Team Leader
Baptist Mission of Kenya
P.O. Box 30405
Nairobi, KENYA

Phones from the US:
011-254-733-491-518 (cell)
011-254-721-342-885 (cell)


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