our time at Daystar

I'm sitting here at Chip Kingsbury's house near Daystar University--Athi River campus near Nairobi. Jeff, if you're reading this, Kimeli and Collins say hi!! Chip is a William Jewell graduate (my alma mater) and has lived here with his wife for 29 years. They have 3 grown children. We arrived here on Friday after a long, long trip. Had a few bus issues--the spare tire fell off and a car behind us ran over it and got stuck on top of the tire :) and then a few kilometers down the road we had a flat! We were very thankful that Chad had figured out how to remove the spare tire from underneath the car because it wasn't long before we needed it!

Saturday morning, we visited the Machakos Rescue Children's Center and helped the guardians plant some seedlings in the shamba (garden). The Center provides plots of land for the guardians to plant greens. The guardians then sell the greens and deposit the profits into a shared bank account. They are saving money to hopefully start individual businesses for the families--in order to become self-sustainable. They also use the money to provide small loans to guardians that need a little extra help from time to time. We also distributed maize and beans to the guardians and did some craft projects with the children. It was awesome. Saturday afternoon part of our team dug trenches at the Ukarimu House on the Daystar campus. The rest of the team visited a boy's primary school and then just hung out with Chip's family and some Daystar students.

Today, we went to Kileleshwa Community Covenant Church in Nairobi. It was a "contemporary" service with a full band that was amazing! I would love to bring them home with us and have them play at our church. They were really good. Our team was brave and led the congregation in 1 song. After church we ate at an Ethiopian restaurant--yummy. :)

Our time here is quickly coming to an end. We will visit Kibera (Kenya's largest slum) tomorrow morning and depart for London tomorrow night. This has been an amazing journey, and we're already talking about and planning our next visit!

Thanks for all your prayers and support.
Until next time...