Growing Connections
Hello all! Jody and I had an excellent flight over. In all my years of international travel I can never remember being able to sleep the entire way over! I slept most of the trans-Atlantic flight to Brussells and was completely out of it on the flight down to Kenya! Jody, however, did not sleep in 36 hours. She was feeling it when we arrived at the Nairobi airport.
It was wonderful to be greeted by a van load of other missionaries boarding at the Africa Inland Missions Guesthouse.
Our brief stay at the Guesthouse has given us connections with folks from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Engineers in Missions International, Missionary Aviation Fellowship, and many more. They come not only from all over Kenya but all over Africa and their stories of trusting God through intense adversity, civil wars, hardships, and heart aches has strengthened our own faith.
Jody also made some unique connections. At church on Sunday morning Jody met Cathy, a teacher at an American school in Nairobi in need of American substitute teachers! Since they are on their winter break (that's right, it's winter here), Cathy and the superintendent have been wanting to explore schools in Kibera, something Jody has been wanting to do. So they have invited her to join them this week!
An encouraging connection for me was a couple for the Eldoret area (7 hours drive North). Once they heard of my shoe project in the North of Kenya, the man told me that I was seeing things like a giraffe. Giraffes have long necks and can see more around them than their immediate surroundings. He said that by offering sustainability to orphans and widows, I was like that giraffe, able to see beyond.
One thing Jody and I had been praying about was that God would connected us with like-minded people. Seems He's doing that since the moment we stepped foot in Nairobi!
We are praising God for His connections!
It was wonderful to be greeted by a van load of other missionaries boarding at the Africa Inland Missions Guesthouse.
Our brief stay at the Guesthouse has given us connections with folks from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Engineers in Missions International, Missionary Aviation Fellowship, and many more. They come not only from all over Kenya but all over Africa and their stories of trusting God through intense adversity, civil wars, hardships, and heart aches has strengthened our own faith.
Jody also made some unique connections. At church on Sunday morning Jody met Cathy, a teacher at an American school in Nairobi in need of American substitute teachers! Since they are on their winter break (that's right, it's winter here), Cathy and the superintendent have been wanting to explore schools in Kibera, something Jody has been wanting to do. So they have invited her to join them this week!
An encouraging connection for me was a couple for the Eldoret area (7 hours drive North). Once they heard of my shoe project in the North of Kenya, the man told me that I was seeing things like a giraffe. Giraffes have long necks and can see more around them than their immediate surroundings. He said that by offering sustainability to orphans and widows, I was like that giraffe, able to see beyond.
One thing Jody and I had been praying about was that God would connected us with like-minded people. Seems He's doing that since the moment we stepped foot in Nairobi!
We are praising God for His connections!
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