One Month Later.....

It has been an interesting one-month journey to various parts of the country with friends from various parts of Germany. It is normally called the Mission Active team and this year’s team travelled to Ngechek, Tinderet, Mbukuni, and Mombasa and finally back home to the Diguna Station in Mbagathi.

We had the opportunity to meet many school-going kids and teenagers as well as their teachers and other members of staff. We were always treated well and no school turned us away although some were much better behaved than others.

Our time in the Diguna stations was filled with practical work punctuated by some practice sessions for the ministry presentation items such as songs and skits. Most of those involved were not used to the physical nature of the work they were expected to assist with and got their fair share of blisters and sun-burned backs.

Mbukuni was our school ministry area and it was very well planned by the pastor in charge of AIC Mbukuni, Shedrack Ndonye. We visited 11 schools, six of which were primary and five secondary schools. We met with the students, teachers and non-teaching staff and got to share the Gospel with them all. The teachers were mostly interested in getting to Germany and were not so enthusiastic with the Gospel. Eventually, the school ministry was over and Mombasa beckoned. After a 12 hour journey, albeit with numerous stops, we reached our destination and embarked on our five night stay and the beach.

When the fun time was over, we drove, though with our normal stops, for close to 14 hours and finally reached Mbagathi exhausted and hungry. Most went to bed almost immediately after eating and the next morning was greeted with a late breakfast. We then went to the Mitumba slums, where the harsh reality of life in the slum was revealed to some very shocked team members. We then proceeded to the Village Market for lunch and some souvenir shopping at the Maasai Market before returning home to a sumptuous supper prepared by the wives of some of our team members.

The German contingent flies back home tonight and we wish them well, although they will be greatly missed. To pick a quote from one annoyed lady at the beach, ‘it is only mountains that never meet, people meet.’