Back from the wild

I know it has been a while since I last blogged, but it has also been a very eventful time. I was away with some friends in a dusty Kenyan town called Naroosora somewhere next to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. I am not too sure that we weren’t in the park itself because we occasionally met wildebeest and zebra on our way to the schools we had to visit. The rain in that part of Kenya is a blessing for the farmers but a curse for the motorists since the road gets horribly muddy when it rains. The strangest part of this detail is that this road is supposed to connect Kenya to Tanzania and yet it is in abject disrepair.

Anyway, the school ministry visits went remarkably well even though we were only five and the team normally has at least nine people. That meant that we had to play double roles and each person had to give more to the team than they normally would. It sounds like such a difficult prospect but it was more fun than work in my opinion. That’s what happens when your work is also your hobby. At the end of the week, we had hosted seven meetings. One meeting had students from TWENTY ONE primary schools, because they had gathered to do a joint exam.

The journey back to Nairobi was full of event, mostly involving muddy roads and strangely gracious Kenyan policemen. Kenyan traffic policemen are notorious for corruption but they let us so easily off the hook even when there was actually a case to answer….GOD was definitely answering my earlier night’s prayers. Soon after we returned, we had a mission to a church fundraising after which we spirited away to a nearby girl’s high school for a Christian Union leadership event where we had great fun and ministry.

Now a new week beckons and there is lots of planning for our forthcoming December camps to do. We are likely to have more than 200 teenagers on our compound during those eventful two weeks and we need all the preparation and heavenly guidance we can get so please pray for us.