Backpacks!

Emily and Josephine had a successful trip to purchase backpacks Monday! They kept their patience as the checker insisted on typing in the SKU for each and every backpack during the checkout process... 

While these two women were serving at the shopping center, the rest of the team enjoyed exploring Karura Forest.

Hotel snapshots

A few photos of Amani gardens Inn - our home for three nights!

Safe in Nairobi!

Pictures coming soon, but wanted to at least post briefly before we tuck in to our comfy beds at Amani Gardens.
All team members, all luggage, most of our sanity made it in one piece to our destination. God is good, all the time!

Takeoff!

Here we go!

First flight leaving now for Paris, then a 4 hour layover, then second flight to Nairobi.

One specific prayer request that came up when we gathered this morning before heading to the airport: the Lewis family’s dog, Max was acting very sick this morning. Please lift up John and Carissa as they leave with uncertainty about Max’s health, and lift up the Lewis kids who are taking him to the vet to find out what is wrong.

Adahlia Bosh: Prayer Requests

Hi, my name is Adahlia Bosh, I am 9 years old, and I have a Kenyan name, Kanana.  Kanana means “one who is loved and adored” in Kimeru.

We will need all the prayers we can get while we’re in Kenya. Please pray for the following:

·        Safety on planes and on vans

·        For clear weather, especially on seminar day (forecasts say rain and maybe even thunderstorms)

·        For the seminar to go as planned

Thank you, everyone!

Gideon Bosh: My Top 7

Hi, my name is Gideon. I am 7 years old. These are some things that I am excited about for our Kenya trip:

•           Playing basketball with Gideon, a Kenyan friend that I am named after.
•           The seminar.
•           Seeing Gitonga, Josephine’s dad, and his chickens.
•           Play soccer (they call it football).
•           Being on the equator.
•       Seeing giraffes and baby elephants.

Lewis Wenz

Hi, my name is Lewis and I'm 9 years old. This is my first time going to Kenya. This is going to be the longest I have been on an airplane. I am excited to play soccer with the kids in Kenya. As a family we read Sharon Moffitt’s book, “A Day of Small Things,” and I feel like it helped me get ready for the trip. From the book I learned that many kids don’t have the money to attend school all the way through high school. I also learned that HIV is one of the sicknesses causing sadness in Kenya. Kenyans have a folk tale about an ogre that eats a small part of a little girl each day because her grandma is not able to protect her. The grandma has to go get food so they won’t starve. This folk tale shows that the grandmother had to choose between protecting her granddaughter from an ogre, and collecting food to survive. If I were the grandmother, I would be mad because my granddaughter didn’t follow my directions to stay inside. I wonder if our sponsored child has heard this folk tale before. I’m excited for Kenya!