In 2007 riots broke out in Kenya due to a fixed election. People’s houses were burned to the ground, people were murdered and driven our of thier homes. They had no place to go so they relocated in the middle of the valley about 30 minutes from Kijabe. Today, we went to the Displaced people. There were over 200 UNICEF tents and this is all that these people have. Many have been there for years waiting for the government to help them.   When we got there, we joined them in fellowship. I had the opportunity to share some of my story with them. There were probably over 200 people...

  “For the son of man did not come to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45   Meet Vicki and Margaret: Margaret, the wife of Pastor Simon who pastors the church near where we stay, and Vicki, Margaret’s niece. Two women who didn’t know our group one bit before we met them about two weeks ago here in Kijabe, but who have dedicated the next two-and-a-half months of their lives to serving us.   To me, these women are the epitome of servants. They cook two meals a day for our group of 14 and sometimes clean up after...

While we were in the bush with the Maasai, we spent the past 3 days going around to all the surrounding huts to encourage new believers and the share the gospel with the unbelievers. God has really been at work in our group. The Holy Spirit leads us to what we should say to each of these people. Most of the people ask that we would pray for rain. They have had a drought for 2 months. We would pray that God would send the rain and that his power would be shown through it. Later that night the clouds started to move in and sure enough the rain poured down. Unfortunately our tent didnt have a...

Here’s just a quick update as I’m heading out the door. As most of you know, I went to the training camp in Georgia and got sick with an ear infection and sinus infection. I came home instead of flying with the rest of the team to Kenya. I’m now leaving my house to begin my long journey to meet up with my team. If everyone could pray for safe travels and that I’ll figure out all my connections and customs ok (since I’m traveling alone) that would be wonderful! Hopefully I’ll be able to update when I get there!  

I’ve been in Kenya for 8 days now and the team is finally getting the opportunity to post another wave of blogs.  We just finished up a 5 day outreach with the Maasai tribe out in the Great Rift Valley and stopped at an internet cafe in a town called Nakuru on our way home to get some “Browsing-Time” as the Kenyans call it.  The last week has been so incredible for all of us.  We have made so many great connections with the people of Kijabe, the town where we are based, and also the people of the Maasai.  It is amazing to think that we are thousands of...

Well we have only been in Kenya for one week and we have already had some awesome opportunities!  The first couple days were spent just walking around Kijabe and getting familiar with where we were going to be living.  Then one of our leaders told us that we were leaving on Wednesday to go stay with the Maasai tribe till Monday!  This was the one of the things I had been looking forward to the most and was pumped to get to meet these people.  My team and I decided that it would be a good idea to learn a little about this tribe before we met them, so we all sat down and...