Wednesday bedtime: Still no electricity – not a great welcome for our upstairs neighbours who have been researching Unreached Peoples in South Sudan most of this year. After two days of difficult and dangerous road travel and one day of flying, they arrived home to flashlights, candles, and a local fast-food meal welcome. One of the first things they unpacked was the solar lamps they used in South Sudan – unfortunately they couldn't bring their solar shower, so there were no hot baths in either of our apartments tonight!
Thursday evening (8 PM): After 30 hours – Electricity!!! Good news: Hot showers tonight. Bad news: Some things were damaged when multiple transformers blew/re-blew in our neighbourhood yesterday; thankfully no major appliances or computers, but three things on my desk are fried!
Friday morning: Took the volt-guard (photo in last week’s update) to the repairman. Decided to give up on the transformer, an added ‘protector’ which transformed the local 240 current to 110 for my computer and desk items! It has blown its last time! Also accepted it was time to evaluate/ examine/ restructure what and how I do my ‘job’, so I'm taking a ten day break from most of my regular work, including posting daily nudges.
Friday noon: Jack returns home excited after a meeting with the Moderator of the Baptist Convention of Kenya and says over and over, “God is working!” One time refers to our concern for a Bible School in eastern Kenya. We had debated/ prayed often about what we could do to help resurrect the Bible School. Turns out the youth pastor at the Moderator’s church is from this area and their church is ready to respond – God is showing us again how to be ‘encouragers and strengtheners’ as others respond to His call for workers in His harvest field.
Saturday afternoon: The Frangipani tree beside our house is blooming. How can something that smells so good make me so sick? Good day to watch a cricket match on television. Realized once again that we now prefer this game over baseball!
Sunday morning: Remembered that a marathon is today and the city centre is for runners only, so we attend Parklands Baptist Church rather than our church on the other side of the city. We remembered wrong – Church announcement: The marathon is next Sunday!
We laugh as a boy leads the church in prayer as the kids head to Sunday School: "May our teachers have courage for teaching us today." We did not laugh as all worshippers are ‘checked’ before entering the sanctuary or while watching armed guards police the church grounds for bad guys throwing home-made bombs! Also learned of a new prayer group at church: Warriors praying for peace before, during and after Kenya’s upcoming presidential elections (March 4, 2013). Another “God is working” moment as we leave church: A man approached Jack asking for advice about another of our discussion/ prayer concerns – pretty sure this man is the one God is leading to ‘deal with’ a concern that affects local churches.
We laugh as a boy leads the church in prayer as the kids head to Sunday School: "May our teachers have courage for teaching us today." We did not laugh as all worshippers are ‘checked’ before entering the sanctuary or while watching armed guards police the church grounds for bad guys throwing home-made bombs! Also learned of a new prayer group at church: Warriors praying for peace before, during and after Kenya’s upcoming presidential elections (March 4, 2013). Another “God is working” moment as we leave church: A man approached Jack asking for advice about another of our discussion/ prayer concerns – pretty sure this man is the one God is leading to ‘deal with’ a concern that affects local churches.
Monday afternoon: I finally realized this morning why I've felt yucky for several weeks – the new malaria medicine we've taken since our trip last month to western Kenya! I feel better already knowing the cause and that we took the last dose yesterday! Jack spent the morning writing a proposal which is his response to another of our concerns and he has already received good feedback.
Tuesday morning: After a phone call with a Nairobi pastor, Jack shares another “God is working” moment: The pastor wants information on how his church can reach an Unreached People in northern Kenya, a People Group that our missionaries lack resources to work among.
I will stop now, but not before saying: THANK YOU for praying for us as we work in Kenya! God is answering your and our prayers! BERT
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