June 12
After making homemade oatmeal for the team, we headed off to the first CRF school visit named after Milton Jones the founder of CRF. The school trained about 200 children of which about 65% were orphans or half orphans. It was started by a Kenyan man named Francis who had been supporting the children. CRF offered to help support the children to see the schools grow. In the Eldoret area, over eight years, about 1000 children are now supported. Communities are being impacted for the better by training children and with Christian values. The school staff come from the communities and are now provided with jobs. People are turning from witchcraft and increasing their faith in God.
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The next school that we visited was called Suzy Peacock. It was a high school for about 150 children and only a few months old. People in the USA had purchased some property for a school and Francis helped to have it built. This school also has dorms for the children who live on site. There is only one women who lives on site to care for all the children and she loves her job.
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Our goals for learning how to start a Christian School are well under way. We are getting all kinds of advice and even good material to use with the school. We are safe, enjoying the team fellowship and thrilled to be here!!
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| Visiting schools to learn how to start a Christian school. |
June 11
With a good night’s rest, we headed for Eldoret. The border between Uganda and Kenya took at least 2 hours to get through. It was in a very poor and crowded town. The crossing was mostly held up by what seemed to be at least a mile of freight trucks on either side. It was a little frightening thinking about how in the world we were going to get through the very complicated process. As God would have it, a man that had helped the Ugandan’s get through the border in the past walked right up to us. It is his profession to help people through the border. He spotted the Chariot and came right up to us to help us through. If it were not for him, it could have taken 3 days to figure it out… It was a great relief to cross over.
Four more hours to Eldoret. Kenya looks a lot like Uganda with banana trees, rice fields, peanut farms, cattle farms, etc….however, it seems to be more rolling country and very lush. The roads are about the same. Some are great and some are not…
All of us spent the night with Jake Reeves who is a 20 year old missionary for CRF, and a great host. We have really enjoyed spending time with him and I think he appreciated the company as he is here by himself.
June 10
Today we left Kampala for Eldoret, Kenya. We are taking two days to get there stopping in Mbale near the border. On the way to Mbale we stopped to see the source of the Nile and dip our feet in it. We also had lunch at the Source Café which was started by the Jinga Church of Christ. We were surprised to run into Katie who wrote the book, Kisses from Katie. In the following picture, there are three people. The one in the foreground is Carmen. The one in the far background is Katie. She actually has an office behind the Source Café.
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| Girl in background is Katie Davis, author of Kisses from Katie. |
Once we made it to Mbale, we stopped by Messiah Theological Institute (MTI) where the guys were to spend the night. Carmen and I spent the night in a guest house of Joy and Vince Vigil who arevery hospitable long term missionaries. The last time I was in Mbale was when I was working on the Livingston International University project three years ago. Since then, the school has been opened but is renting space at MTI. LIU has made tremendous progress in the last three years.
Next to MTI is a bakery. They have several ovens that are wood fired. They were making cookies, donuts and bread….Ugandan style.
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| Bakery next to Messiah Theological Institute |
June 8
Saturday is the day that the Women of Grace get together for a Bible Study and then work on crafts. They were studying Micah 2 which is what all of the KCC Life Care Groups are studying. It was a very inspirational discussion where everyone participated. I learned that I should not take pride in all of the blessings from the Lord, but rather bless others with all that God us blessed us with. They were several prayer requests from the ladies concerning several health issues including those with HIV. Due to lack of access to health care, there is an abundance of various health issues. Please pray for the ladies to heal and b strong for the Lord’s work. After the lesson, we had the very pleasurable experience of learning to make the Ugandan Bead products. The ladies are going to finish working with beads for a while and then learn a new craft. They are praying for a sewing machine to learn sewing. I am hoping to teach them tie-dying and making curtains….curtains are straight lines and easy to learn….
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| Women of Grace craft time. |
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| Women of Grace bible study. |
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