Welcome to Kenya!

Our small mission team met in Kenya about a week ago. From the capital city of Nairobi, we traveled 6 hours south-west to the town of Kisii. From Kisii we then traveled my matatu (mini-bus) to the Upper Guccha region where we stayed with Pastor Charles, his wife Mary, their family and a group of 32 orphans that they care for! During our few days there we spent time visiting, preaching, teaching and enjoying the warm hospitality of our amazing hosts. Here are a few pictures and comments by Thomas Questad about our time there:

The trip from Kisii to upper Guccha took about twenty minutes of riding in a semi-noisy, fairly cramped, and very bumpy matatu (mini-bus). When we finally arrived to Sangra (the closest village) we had to get out of the vehicle and walk the last half mile or so because it was too wet and muddy to drive. Walking in the mud is not as fun as it might sound, but we made it to pastor Charles home and surprisingly only half of the visitors slipped and fell!  

 

After we had completed the journey and they fed us we had our first of many services. Their love for the preaching of God’s Word was amazing. All they had for a church was a tent with a very muddy floor and people came from all around; many of them had to make a further and muddier journeys then we did (and ours was long and muddy). 

 

They didn’t have any instruments per se but there was this little girl that could make some amazing sounds out of an old three-gallon water jug and she was probably playing it over two hours a day...

And late into the night it seemed they couldn’t get enough of praising God! The first night I don’t think they slept; we could hear them whenever we woke up throughout the night.

This is the family and orphans that lived in Upper Guccha, plus some of the visiting pastors. We took this picture down the hill from their home on our way back to town.

Here is our slippery journey back up the hill to town to meet the chief and catch the matatu. I guess the few days spent there in the mud helped us learn, because no one fell on the way back!

This is John with the police chief (seated) who was very friendly and told us to come back and bring more people!

Please continue to pray for our time here in Kenya. Please also pray for the people of Kenya: 40,000 people so far have been affected by unseasonal flooding.