17Feb
Eunice is 12 years old. She is a shy, quiet kid; yet, there is something strong underneath that quietness. Her story tells why. Eunice’s mom is a single mom. When Eunice’s dad died, her uncle decided that he wanted to marry Eunice. Although culturally this is not all that unusual, Eunice’s mom realized that letting her [...]
17Feb
On Sunday before we left for the airport, we got to play with the kids at the boarding school. Soccer (football as it’s known in Kenya), tug-of-war, jump rope, football (American style). And we got to talk with the kids – and that was the best! While Frank tried to explain what ‘Star Wars’ is (and [...]
17Feb
The directors of Missions of Hope told us so many stories – some incredibly sad, with even sadder endings; some overwhelmingly joyful. And some still being written – like this one. The last day in Nairobi we got to spend an incredible half hour talking to a support group for Christian women who are involved in [...]
17Feb
Lydia Katuma is 12 years old. She is friendly and talkative, and has an easy, sweet smile. On our field day on Sunday, she informed me that she liked to write, and loved the journal I was writing in. She talked about the boarding school and how happy she was there. But her past life [...]
14Feb
This week we had the opportunity of visiting a few of the shanties that people in the slums call home. In other blog posts, you’ve read some of the bad stuff - the size, the smell, the disbelief that people could live in conditions like this. But there is some positive and sweetness that I’ve found [...]
14Feb
Can you imagine living in a metal box with no electricity, the only light coming through a doorway just large enough to crawl through? No street lights. Ever. In fact, no electricity anywhere for blocks and blocks. That’s what living in the slums of Nairobi is like. The Share the Light project helps shed some light in [...]
14Feb
Over the last few days we made it a point to visit the CMF outpost. CMF stands for Christian Missionary Fellowship and they are doing incredible work in Kenya. Having entered the country in 1978, there are now 85 CMF/Maasai churches, with 6,000 people, that are entirely overseen by Maasai leaders. Click here to visit [...]
14Feb
It’s always great to get away as a team even when some of the experiences like this week’s are pretty horrific. The day in the slums at the beginning of the week brought us all to an eerie silence (unusual for this bunch!). But, amidst all of that, we did the obligatory Twenty Questions with each [...]
14Feb
Hey we haven’t posted in a while because we’ve been outside Nairobi in rural Kenya. Thanks to Brian, here’s what we look like on our six hour gravel road trip back to Nairobi.
14Feb
Meet Freda. Freda was a drunk. She used to drink so much moonshine that she could be found quite often dancing through the narrow streets of the slum singing and carrying on. Freda doesn’t drink anymore. Freda cooks the best tortillas in the slum, and people in the community come to her shanty to buy them - [...]
