Birthday

I had the honor of being around for Imani's 4th birthday. This has not happened since she was born. It was hard to believe that I have been a part of  her life from the beginning.  It has been a great blessing. Though she does not react to attention really well it looks like she is not happy. But she had a good day.

Visit to the Lake

We decided to take a trip to the biggest lake in central Kenya. Lake Olbolosat. The good news is that it is really close to were we live. You can see it from road.  So once we turned off the main road we thought it would be close but it took quite a while to get to the lake on some rough roads. But it was nice once we got there. It is very much undeveloped which is good and bad. We had Pastor Mugo drive us there. He decided to buy a fish from one of the locals fishing. As you may see in some of the pictures.  We only ran into one issue. We got a punctured tire. It all worked out as we let the boys change the tire.
It was good to get away and rest for a while.

Drive to the lake

Lake Views

Time for Fish

Time to Change the tire

Easter

This was my second time to be in Kenya for Easter. The last time was in 2012 so it have been a while. Since it was Easter we were really feeling like we needed to attend church. As I have mentioned the hard part here is to find a church were we are not pointed out and made to talk. We just wanted to go and enjoy an Easter service.  When I was hear in 2012 I attended a Easter weekend church conference in Nairobi. This is a conference that Pastor Mugo attends and is a part of. So I suggested that we travel to Nairobi to attend the service on Sunday.  Pastor Mugo would be there as well as Charity, Imani and June. So we decided to travel to Nairobi on Sat. and then attend church on Sunday. David and Diane would leave on Sunday and then I was going to stay until Monday. I would travel home with Mugo and family and spend the night there and return on Tuesday.  I decided to not tell Charity that I was coming. So it was a great surprise Sat. night when they were done service to surprise them.

It was good to be at the conference again. Though the services are long (3 to 5 hours) the worship and teaching are good. And most of it is in English so that makes it even better for me.

It was Faith's (Mugo wife) birthday while we were gone for the weekend. She had stayed home to be with two of the kids that stay with them during school break from PACE. So on our way home we stopped for a birthday cake to celebrate. 

So another good weekend filled with many blessings.

Meal together after surprising them with me being there.

Service at church

Happy Birthday Faith. (yes that is how they spell Mom)

Tradition to feed each other cake

Family

This month I have had much time with family here. It has been a blessing in many ways as it always is. The first weekend I went I also informed them that this would be my last term with PACE and was not sure when I would be back. This was very hard news to share especially with my sister Charity. But we had much fun through the weekend. Imani (Charity's daughter) greeted me like I never left. We connected like I have never been gone. This is an amazing feeling. I was also able to attend Faith's church in Nakuru which was a blessing. First because I do not have the chance to attend adult fellowship while I am here. We meet with the kids at school on Sundays which is good but not the same as worshiping with adults. Of course this means I am the only white person and I am pointed out. And I have to say something. Then I was asked to meet with the kids at the end of the service to they could talk with me. It was awkward at first but then they started to ask me questions and it was okay. I also got hold a baby through that time. I found out after that this child never seems to be settled and he never fussed for me. Of course this was odd seeing me care for this child. I big perception in this culture is that we (white people) do not work. So to see me caring for a child they would see is odd.  Little do they know.

Charity and myself (and baby) as we wait for the adults to be done with there meeting

Speaking at the church

Fun with my sisters

 

More Library

So we have a large container of books that PACE has had for over 10 years. There was about 40,000 books when it came. Since that time there has been a few people that have tried to organize it. Last year we were able to turn it into a library for the high school. So now that we have hired a Kenyan librarian it was time to sort through it and figure out what we have.

So we unload all the books out of the container and into a classroom. This took much effort. Then we spent the next week and a half sorting through all the books. This again was quite time consuming. Once we decided what we wanted and boxed them up and moved them back into the container. Now we have a lot of books that we are hoping to give away. We have a few groups coming next week to take a they want.

What we started with

Moving

Angle are Librarians daughter.  Helping??!!?

What we have left to give away