July 2011 Trip: Team Updates

Monday:

Monday morning we woke up early and after a breakfast of omelets and toast, Wendy got on a van with the team going to the Wesley Medical Clinic to have her first experience working in an Kenyan medical setting.

Collyn, Steph and Lynn followed winding dirt back roads to Alice's pre-school. Our mission was to deliver 60 little hats that Joyce Eskridge had knit for the children who she had met on our February trip. The children were so excited! We were invited to teach these swahili speaking kids for the whole day, but actually could only spend an hour. The needs at the pre-school are many but the top three are to have a wall built around the property, have electricity hooked up and have the dirt floor covered with concrete. We noticed that they only had little stubs of chalk for the "black" board.

Then on to the way to the United Methodist Mission Boarding School. Steph and Collyn taught three huge classes of children .... they sang, they taught Bible lessons based on Proverbs 3:5-6 and Isaiah 40:29-31 and were well received and appreciated. The head of the school was happy for the time spent with them. She said it was important that the children heard the Bible being reinforced by people from so far away. It confirmed what they were trying to teach at the school.

We picked up Wendy, who had been seeing patients with a Kenyan Clinical Officer. She learned what they do differently here.

After lunch, Wendy had some stomach problems and spent the day in bed, while the rest of us headed out for a safari at Lake Nakuru National Park. Collyn saw her first-EVER giraffe and we saw thousands of flamingos, pelicans and storks. God's natural world.....amazing!
All is well! More tomorrow.