June 17, 2007
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Jambo!
There are computers where we’re staying in Nairobi, so we have limited access to dial-up at $2/hour.
Pastor Imbumi Makuku, pastor of Kibera Reformed Presbyterian Church, just finished briefing the team about what we’ll be doing this week.
The next 4 days, we’ll be participating in a local pastors’ conference. Pastor Makuku has invited about 100 pastors and other people who serve leadership roles in the local churches, and the adults in our team are teaching 11 sessions over the four days on things like prayer, hermeneutics, marriage, and parenting. Many of the people who do ministry here have very little education, and almost no ministry training — so this conference will hopefully be a great blessing to them and the people they serve.
The youth on the team (me, Buddy, Courtney, Lauren, and Virginia) will be helping with a childrens’ Bible club after the conference every afternoon. We’ll do skits, songs, and teach Bible stories. Yesterday we told the story of Zaccheus (no time for spell check) with the missionary interns and acted it out in a skit.
People here in Kenya are very physical. The kids will latch on to your hands and arms — sometimes leading to small fights over who got to touch the white people. They also love our hair, because even the girls here have extremely short hair. They couldn’t believe my hair was real. Haha.
Well, I guess I’ve spent enough time on the computer. I might check in a little later in the week and let y’all know what’s going on. I wanted to upload a picture I took today, but somehow “USB cable” didn’t make my Africa packing list…
Comments (19)
meh.
Hopefully the pastor’s conference will be a big help.
Ah! You’ve left already?! Mom and I had a check in the mail for you!
Yeah…my mom and I have a check for you too..that’s why I asked you when you were leaving, silly man!Your entry made me smile, but especially the part about the kids and the hair.
Hey Caleb. Very long time! Great to see your site is still up and you are still doing Christ’s work. I hope and pray all is well.
TH
Isaac, your enthusiasm and support is always such an encouragement.
Dan, thanks…we’re all praying continually that God will use this week beyond just what we’ve planned.
Asante sana, Rachael and Katie. Oh, and hakuna matata too, ’cause I still need the support. ELCC fronted the money for the trip, but I’m still a little bit short on raising money.
TH, good to see you back. We’ll have to catch up a bit when I get back. Haven’t talked much since the RPW debate, have we?
I have long blonde hair. In Malawi, the kids pulled it out and ran away. Ouch.
Aren’t the kids over there just amazing, though? I want to adopt all of them.
Hakuna Matata….*sings song loudly…
Yay! you are alive!
ya know… mom wouldn’t be upset with you if you came back with a kenyan haircut! 
don’t forget Chai… behave yourself… don’t get eatten by lions and we love yoU! 
i love Martha! tell her hello for me
and give her a hug!
So you post on your xanga site but don’t write your MOTHER??!!
Hope you all are staying well and being used greatly by the Lord. We love ya!
Mom
Oh, and the reason the Kenyans have short hair is probably due to head lice! Yuck!
Anytime. Anytime.
Hey Caleb! It’s alright that there were no Sunday posts while you’ve been gone. I think being in Africa working for Jesus is a pretty good excuse. [I mean..reason..
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Our topics have actually been going really well lately, especially Tallon5′s on birth control. I’m realizing the WorshipCafers really like to talk about sex. Or something.. lol Coz we sure never had close to 70 topics on a post before!
Stay safe, and I am sure you will have some good topics about your experience once you return.
It’s a miracle! You remembered my birthday AND father’s day! What has possessed you? jk. Thanks for remembering : P Hope you’re having a great time on your suffari, take lots of animal pics for me
haha, thanks caleb, i’ll add all that in
anything else to include? i wrote a function for x*3.1415etc… it fetches the circumference of a circle..
beyond that, what else should i include? and in what order?
Yay you’re back! You called yesterday? I thought about calling back but figured if you had wanted me to you would’ve left a message. I need to know if that money made it to you…
RYC: That is amazing. I want to go to Africa sometime. The poor are truly more blessed than they may believe.
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