Gaining Insight. Experiencing God. Growing in Understanding.
We are so glad you found our website! We hope to periodically add encouraging, educational, and thought provoking updates to this site from our year in Kenya. As we are away for the year, we would also love to hear updates from all of you back home. So, please sign our guest book on this [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Nancy
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We experienced an incredible outpouring of love as we prepared to leave the States. Support came in many forms, and we are grateful for all of it! The time we spent this summer presenting our mission to churches, groups and individuals proved invaluable. We met many people whose knowledge of Kenya has already helped us [...]
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We want to say a special “thank you” to our home church, New Life Presbyterian, for the spectacular send off! The church created a celebration event for us entitled: “A Day in Kenya.” The members arrived dressed in African attire, the dance team performed an African dance, and the children played a traditional Kenyan game.
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From August 26th to September 1st training took place in Louisville, Kentucky. We attended many workshops, worship services, and discussion groups. The first topic was: “mission as partnership” (as opposed to hierarchical relationship) between the ministry team from the U.S. and the people in the receiving countries. Through partnership, the gifts and strengths of all [...]
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We flew from Louisville to Chicago to London to Nairobi. The many hours in the air gave us time to study Kiswahili and to read about Kenyan history and culture. English is the official language in Kenya, and Kiswahili is the national language. There are 42 different ethnic groups in Kenya, and the groups speak [...]
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