Hallelujah!

The painting of the house is done. I have never been so tired of paint and painting. As soon as my container comes I can move in and then start on the next thing. Guess what that would be? That's right! Driving a standard on the opposite side of the road. =) I'm sure it will be interesting and I will have many stories to tell.

In the mean time, please pray for the container as it sits at the coast of Kenya waiting to be transferred and verified (opened up and checked). Pray that the container will be transferred and verified by the end of this week so that it can start on its way up here to Nairobi. The reason for the hurry, besides wanting to get moved in and settled, is that they are charging me for every day that it sits down there. Thank you for praying and I will let you know how things turn out. Have a blessed day!

More pictures of our Sunday out in the bush

The joys of Traffic

Today was shopping day! We pick one day and go into town and get all the things we need for the week. Well, on the way home we ended up in a traffic jam which lasted three hours. I'm not exaggerating, but very serious. The President of Kenya ws coming in from being in Ethiopia. Before we got to the area with the traffic jam we were trying to leave a round about and ended up having a guy on a bicycle run into the back of our car. He looked startled and rode off. We finally made it home by 8:00 and had supper by 9:00. Life can be so interesting here in Kenya.

First Sunday back in Kenya and in the middle of new friends!

The lady on the end is Ruth. She has become a very dear friend to me. The children are some of our Sunday school children here at Bible Baptist Church of Noonkopir.

Joe and the Novak's cat, Smokie

Monkey, monkey, look there’s. . . .

a monkey. I guess I should start at the beginning. Anybody dying of suspense? We, Bro. Novak, Joe, and I, went to my house today to finish up some of the repairs and painting. It should be done within the next two days. It's a beautiful house and a safe neighborhood to be living in. There is another single lady missionary living across the street from me and that is where all the excitement was taking place. As we were leaving to go back to the Novak's house people were gathering in the street and shouting, monkey, monkey, look there's a monkey! Sure enough there was a monkey sitting on Kathy's (the single lady missionary) roof. What an exciting end to a wonderful day! I just wish I had had my camera with me.

I guess I should also tell you who Joe is. He is the son of the assistant national pastor of Bible Baptist Church of Noonkopir. I think he is 21 or 22 yrs. old. He has been helping me for the last two and a half weeks with painting my house.

Carjacking

Some of you may have heard about the carjacking that took place here in Kenya a couple of days ago. There were four people in the car, but only two were shot dead. Two American ladies. We were told one lady was staff at the American Embassy and the other was the daughter of a staff person at the Embassy. Through this sad happening I learned not to hesitate when a carjacker tells you to do something. Just do it imediately. Pray for the families of these two ladies.

Traveling to Church in the Bush. . .

yesterday was quite an experience. An experience everyone should have at least once in their life time. The travel time was two hours one way. This was a church that the Novaks started years ago and is now being pastored by a trained national pastor.

We got there in time for the church service. During the song service they ask the visitors for testimonies, so of course being a visitor I got to share my testimony. I always enjoy sharing my testimony and one of these days I won't need a translator. Bro. Novak preached in Swahili and as always I sat there with my English Bible, Swahili Bible, and my Swahili/English dictionary. At the end of the service we were served a wonderful lunch that the ladies had prepared. Of course we didn't eat the meat cause the Rift Valley Fever has infected that area now. We had a wonderful time of fellowship and I got to meet some of the maasai women and took some pics with them. The church there as just started a school for preschool all the way to standard 2 (2nd grade). We had a super enjoyable time giving some school stuff to the children and their teacher. On the way there and back we saw all kinds of animals, zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, gazelle, impala, and many others.