Again, another two months has passed. But, it was an incredible two months. May parents came for a week in the beginning of March; we went on Safari, took them to the slums, had them do medical checkups for the kids at the center, etc. It was such a wicked opportunity for my parents to experience the joys and struggles of life and work in Kenya.
We successfully kicked off the God-Parent program with our kids at the center. Basically they have a donor in the states who writes them letters, prays for them, and contributes 100 dollars a month for school fees, food, clothes for the 35 kids at the center. We also had a donor give money for bibles, so we handed out bibles to all the kids and workers at the center; it was a good good day.
I finally finished the little Kibera Secondary School documentary/video companion piece. I think it turned out pretty well in the end, it should be posted soon on FB. I’m def. a bit nervous because hundreds of people will be watching this and I want to make sure it’s good enough, that people are informed and feel moved to partner with us, for the construction of this school/community.
We had a youth conference the other day in Limuru. There was a couple months of work put into this, getting speakers, a venue, advertising. In the end we had about 60 youth come and listen to talks on HIV, the environment, and Micro-Finance. I think some kids were really impacted by this event, even though I was stressed all day, as it was supposed to start at 8AM but in typical African style it did not begin to 11 AM.
I got to help out at a Vaction Bible School that the southern baptists were putting on for a discipleship group, led by my mates, that brought 50 youth from the tea fields together. It was a stellar week of the word, arts and crafts, songs and games. I was in charge of the games, and it was awesome. It felt like I was back at Camp. It was hilarious to watch these kids try and figure out all these brain games and team building games. A wizard time…
Me and my mates hiked around a volcano a few weeks ago called. Mt, Logonot. It was this wicked crazy extinct volcano and it took us all day just to hike the rim of the thing, but it was so beautiful.
We had a food relief program that was implemented successfully last week. A gal asked me a few months ago what could be done to help in Kenya, I mentioned that there was a famine in the region, and that she could raise money for food relief. She ran with this, raised 3,000 dollars and the other day we headed south to a Masaai Village called Namanga. The UN had put this area on priority one, in that it was in dire need of food relief. We had a truck filled with 960 5 kilo bags of maize meal, which we distributed to each head of the family. Like the youth conference, the food was scheduled to show up at 10 but didn’t arrive till 4, T.I.A….It was organized through the local church in the area, so there was about 2 hours of worship, preaching and me and my mates awkwardly fumbling through Swahili and trying to explain to a 1,000 masaai what we were doing there. It was quite a scene. In the end, the food was given out, and these people were given relief, even though the amount will only last about a week. We estimated that about 5,000 people were reached with this food.
So, that’s a wee rundown of the past few months. I’m heading to the states in a few hours, for a team meeting, fundraiser and just some general merry making with my best mates. Sorry I’m so lazy on blogging, but T.I.A. mate…
joe
