A "Good Friday" Indeed!

To celebrate Good Friday we got to experience a day in the life of an African woman. We three girls plus Jamie and Natasha treated the women that we disciple to lunch for an Easter celebration.

On the menu: Koko (chicken), ugali (maize flour), sukuma wiki (collard greens), rice, and sodas. We bought three chickens from Karen, a lady from Bible study and had a meal at the ladies home in the slums behind the church.  

We got the full African experience from picking out the chicken,

carrying it to the cooking sight,

                                                                     killing it,                                                         

 plucking out the feathers, 

cutting it up,

cooking it,



Evelyn showing me how to grill

 and finally eating it!

Traditional Kenyan dishes-ugali, chicken, rice, and sukuma wiki

It was a sweet day of fellowship and remembering what Christ did for us on the cross. Most of the day I just sat back talking with the ladies and observing them interact with each other. I enjoyed listening to them talk to each other in Swahili & their mother tongue, giving each other advice on the best way to cook the food, and laughing with each other.

 

Eunice, myself, Christina, Jane

 

Jamie, Milicent, Evelyn, and myself cooking lunch



After hours of cooking we gathered together to read the Easter story, eat together, and play with the children. 





Giving Mercy a head band like mine.



Painting toe nails!

It was a full day of enjoying the African culture. Of course killing your own lunch isn’t the norm in the American culture but it speaks volumes to the ladies that we Mzungus (Westerners) would be willing to get our hands dirty and live like them for a day.