1st Week in Nairobi

Life in Kenya has started out pretty slow which has been nice because it has allowed us to adjust to life here...you know…11 hr time difference, mosquitoes biting us in the middle of the night, random power outages, conserving water, etc. We live in a guest house with two other women, Natasha from Russia & Jamie from Southern California.  The other Far Reaching missionaries, the Ramirez family & Zavala family, live in the same complex as us. Next door to us a National Reserve (Safari Park)…how cool is that!?! You can usually find me standing at the window looking for animals. So far we’ve seen a giraffe, cape buffalo & gazelle!  

Our first Saturday in town we went to a wedding, Arie (our teacher) officiated the wedding & his son Jojo was the ring bearer. Apparently this particular wedding was more Westernized but they still included some tribal traditions which was neat to experience. 

Our schedule has been revealed to us along with our ministry projects. Our work week is Tues-Sun, with Mon being our day off. We start our day with personal devotion at 6:30am & then have breakfast. We are starting an audio study called “Growing in the Grace of God” by Bob Hoekstra. At noon we leave to go do ministry which varies from day to day. We come back to the house at about 5pm or 6pm & start our workout (P90X), then dinner, fellowship, studying & bed. Our main jobs here our going to be Bible teaching at the schools in the slums, two different women’s Bible teachings per week, home visits, hospital visits, & general ministry at church on Sundays.

Tonight we went to a Christmas concert in an area called Karen. Karen is in the more affluent part of Nairobi where mostly Muzungu (white people) live. We sat outside picnic style by candle light & they sang carols & read some scripture. It being summer here with hardly any decorations makes it easy to forget that we are in the Christmas season.

We are all doing well & enjoying our time here.  Nairobi is just absolutely beautiful & I feel so blessed to be here.

Kenyan Wedding

Arie & JoJo

                                                    

Our very secure house

Safari Park next door

                                                        



Our bedroom



Our living room

Our church-Calvary Chapel Nairobi

Christmas concert

Please pray for Sudan. We just found out today that war has already started in South Sudan with ariel bombs being dropped. Far Reaching Ministries is possibly evacuating the missionaries out of there soon. War wasn't expected to start until Jan if at all & we are scheduled to be there in the spring. So plans are most likely going to change for us unless the war ends. Please also pray for the people that are being attacked in the war & all the innocent lives that will be lossed.