On Wednesday (7-7-10), we visited the Fuata Nyayo slum where one of our Kenyan friends grew up.  It took us 10 min. to walk through the slum to get to the secondary school that we were speaking and singing to.  Those 10 min. felt like a lifetime.  The smells, the sounds, and the sights are difficult to describe, but I will attempt.  Trash littered the mushy, brown dirt underneath me. Sewage 10 times anything I’ve ever smelled filled my nostrils.  Women and men yelled, “Sister, sister, come buy.”  A chorus of barefoot children sang, “How...

Hello family & friends of Team Kenya!  I just spoke with Nate and Traday, the Kenya leaders, and the team is doing great!  It’s encouraging to hear what God’s doing in their midst.  They wanted me to post a blog for them, as their internet has been sketchy at best these past few days.  As you know, they have been running on an internet schedule whereby each student has a certain day to blog.  However, due to the internet problems they’re facing, this hasn’t been as easy as they had expected.  They are currently re-evaluating their...

  Written on 6-30-10. 56 kids. Yes! At the 1st ICC-Kiserian church service last Sunday (6-27-10) Taylor, Amy Jo, and I taught children’s church where God completely surprised us with the turnout. We acted out David & Goliath, talked about Jesus as the shepherd, and sung lots of fun songs both in Swahili and English. All last week prior to the 1st service we worked moving huge rocks and inviting people to the church. So it was nice to see the fruit from our labor. That’s a little recap on Kiserian, but what’s really been on my heart lately is the beauty of...

   African Culture is drastically different from America in a lot of ways: 1. Driving on the left side of the road, 2. Words like silly and sassy are not used because of alternative meanings and 3. When asking people if they know the Lord you don’t sugar coat it with 15 minutes of small talk or use tools of symbolism. You literally walk up to people introduce yourself and pose the question “are you born again?” This process is what our team and hosts call street evangelism. The entire process was A LOT to take in at once. It was socially awkward and against...

Where to start… another week is gone. The weeks seem to be flying by. This week we were working on a new church plant. Construction was the name of the game. All week we thought we would be building and taking down. This was the case the first half of Monday and a few other times but we also went out and talked Jesus with people a lot. The first day we did this I felt in the way. I felt distracting. The men would just look at us white females and seemed to be very distracted from the message the males were trying to get across. So that evening I suggested that we stay back at the...

  Kenya is so amazing and I can’t believe the trip is half over, crazy. This trip is such a blessing, I cannot express in words how much it is affecting me and forming me into a more faithful daughter of Christ. Let me just say, the food is something I was a little hesitant about prior to coming. I’m not extremely picky and I knew I would eat a bizarre meal if I was hungry enough, but I never expected what was in-store for us. We arrived at the hostel and found out we would have someone cooking for our team. His name is Patrick and he is so great! His life story is pretty...