As you may know, Kenya is now in the midst of chaos, unbridled violence and on the verge of complete breakdown. The upheaval began more than a month ago when political parties began to argue with one another over the results of the nation�s presidential elections. And while the politicians fight among themselves over who will assume control of the nationalgovernment -- those who are desperately poor are suffering most.

While much of Kenya�s media gives conflicting reports of the crisis, our missionaries are witnessing the violence, death and destruction first-hand! A few days ago, I received a letterfrom Fr. Ludwig Peschen -- a Missionary of Africa who is also a physician. Fr. Ludwig lives and works in Nairobi (Kenya�s capital city) with other missionaries in an effort to provideemergency relief to some of the hundreds of thousands of people who have been affected by the recent violence in Kenya.