Hello everyone! Finally found a wifi connection since Jon and I just arrived in Thika. This is the last stop of our touring around visiting each group. Sorry for the lack of communication but the wifi is not working in either Nakuru or Kajiado. Everyone is well however and these teams of kids and sponsors are AMAZING! You would be so proud of all of them. Everyone has had a great attitude and has worked so hard in some pretty tough circumstances. Brief updates since we are about to have evening meeting:
Nakuru - We spent the weekend with the Nakuru team. They are painting the inside of a HUGE church there. Part of our fundraising was to provide them with some musical equipment for the church since their old stuff was all stolen last year. Ashley Green and Madison Fields entertained the kids the other day for at least 2 hours straight while the team was painting inside just to keep the kids from coming in and getting into the paint. They have also been going to a school for Mentally Disabled children every day and doing a VBS and painting a little bus they have buried in the ground as part of their play equipment. I will try to upload some photos but I'm hearing it's slow and may not work so if there are no pictures you'll know why. The Nakuru team has also been working at various highschools in the late afternoon giving testimonies and evangelizing, as well as hosting movie nights for the youth.
Kajiado - This team is seriously awesome! They have put in a concrete floor in the church that we built last year as well as in a house for their matriarch, Mama Ruth. The ladies had a GREAT time yesterday speaking to the women and sharing various things. Becky Galvan, Carmen, and Cindy did a great job of speaking about the worth of the women. Their culture is very different from ours and many of their questions were things like "Do your husbands beat you?" and "What do you do if your husband, who already has several wives, uses a prostitute?" Heartbreaking to us but very normal for them. We are beginning to realize the enormous impact this group is having on their culture. Most of the women have become believers, but most of the men are still not. They are very wary that we are coming in and trying to change their ways. The first year we were here, the men were not even in the village. The second year, they came briefly. Last year, they helped construct the dirt roadway up to their village so that our group could come in easier. This year, the men were all there watching as we worked and standing around very curious. The pastors there are very encouraged and hoping to win these men over time.
Please pray for the Kajiado team as they are dealing with a few things we take for granted in the states. Most of them have not had hot water, and yesterday, the pump to their well broke and they didn't have ANY water at their hotel. They supposedly had it fixed when we left this morning so that they should be okay by tonight.
Thika - This team is making progress on the orphanage where they are painting and leading a vbs. They were adding bricks to the top of their wall to make it more secure and presenting a puppet show to the kids when we showed up this afternoon.
Got to run to the meeting. The Thika group is doing well and I have heard the Machakos group is as well. Sorry for the brief update but know that all is well.
Sincerely,
Jenni Millet for the group
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