Gaining Insight. Experiencing God. Growing in Understanding.
Several people wrote beautiful and encouraging notes in our guestbook sometime between the middle of October and Nov. 20th. By accident, when trying to “approve” the messages so that they would post for all to see, I accidently hit “delete.” If you wrote one of those kind messages (you can check the guestbook to see [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by Nancy
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After completing our one month orientation, Nancy and I started our work at our ministry sites. Nancy is working at Church World Service of East Africa (www.cwsea.org) where she is monitoring projects dealing with poverty and hunger relief in this region. I am working with peace initiatives at an organization called the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Shelvis
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A few weeks ago, I met with four students from the University of Nairobi. The students asked FECCLAHA to facilitate peace and reconciliation workshops to student body leaders. They wanted to end tribal division in Kenya by first addressing its prevalence on their campus. I was extremely impressed with the students’ willingness to be vulnerable [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Shelvis
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The following week, I traveled to Limuru (right outside of Nairobi) to attend an Inter-religious training on Conflict Resolution and Prevention which was held by the National Council of Churches in Kenya. The training was one of many activities planned by the Inter-religious Forum to address the post-election violence (which occurred Jan-March 2008) and to [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Shelvis
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I have also begun serving at Loresho Presbyterian, a local parish full of life and vision. The pastoral team and congregation have welcomed Nancy and I and we look forward to seeing how God leads the relationship. In my short time in Kenya, I have been overwhelmed with the amazing opportunities that I have [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Shelvis
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A matatu is a 14 passenger van which is used for public transportation in Kenya. Although “14 passenger” is printed on the outside of each vehicle, the conductors often cram as many people as possible in the matatu in order to make a larger profit. Shelvis and I ride matatus to work everyday, and this has [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Nancy
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We do not want to make this website political, but we would be leaving out a large portion of our experience here if we did not mention Kenya’s excitement about Barack Obama and admiration for John McCain. When we stepped off the plane in September, we were greeted right away with questions about Barack Obama. [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Nancy
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