From Kibera Slum to Machakos

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With one week underway, Jody has been from Kibera slums to  Machakos (61 km from Nairobi)!

Jody arrived in Nairobi Kenya after a 26 hour journey which started in Dayton, Ohio.  She barely made her connecting flight in Zurich, with only 30 minutes to spare!  All her luggage made it and she breezed through customs.

Tammy & Jody after a long day in Kibera slum.
American missionary, Tammy and Eva, Kenyan ministry partner and Auntie, met Jody with cab driver Benjamin to welcome her back to Kenya.  All three have been good friends with us through out our years spent in Nairobi, so despite the jetlag, it was a good reunion.

Arrival at the apartment had a few unexpected surprises.  The previous guests had left the place rather untidy and so Eva and her sister graciously offered there cleaning services.  They literally scrubbed from ceiling to floor and the place is ready for our girls' to come from their village home for discipleship classes this week.

Just a day after arrival, Jody attended our church, Vineyard Nairobi and God orchestrated an impromptu prayer meeting with our former prayer team!  Between their prayers, and Eva and her sister, not only physically cleansing, but spiritually cleansing the house, it was a phenomenal start to what God is going to do in and through Jody, Eva, Tammy, and the girls!

Later in the week, Jody along with a team of volunteers, came to her house for a meal after spending a long and exhausting day in Kibera Slum.  Once again Eva pulled together with Tammy and others to cook some very weary ministry leaders a meal of beans and rice. 
 Jody said some workers hadn't eaten all day and it was 8 at night when they finally sat down to eat together.

Then it was off to Machakos on an hour and a half crowded matatu ride for a week end of prayer and fasting at the YWAM base camp.  Matatu's are 14 seater mini, mini (emphasis added) vans and usually there are more than 14 people packed inside.  

Despite arriving at base sore and bruised, Jody and Tammy enjoyed the ride with fellow travelers.  Kenyans respect an Mzungu (white person) who can tough it out on their local transport.

Jody has taken many walks in the bush and has come across giraffe, zebra, water buffalo, and warthogs.  She said it is more intimating seeing them on foot than from a safari car!

And tonight, she had a furry visitor at the foot of her bed, a rather large tarantula.  Fortunately, one of the Kenyan YWAM men came to the rescue.

Jody had a great travel back to the City and eagerly awaits the orphan girls and we are told the girls are excited in return.

Thanks for all your prayers!
Christy

  

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