Today there was another shooting in the town. A soldier was shot trying to disarm a civilian. Our clinic treated him and Sabet prayed with him to receive Christ before he was taken to Wau hospital. There is much tension as the elections near this weekend. Please be in prayer for Sabet and our teams safety.
Happy Easter
What a joy today always brings in my heart as we celebrate the risen Lord. And to fellowship with friends was very special. We roasted a rack of lamb and made pavlova. What a blessing to bring traditions to my children. Bev Wootton, who originally introduced us to the Losee’s, took us to her container to rummage through toys and books that a church in USA sent her. We got 2 boxes of fabulous things including a bike for Jed!
Relaxing in the Country
Today was so nice just to relax and do nothing but reflect on the wonder of the cross. Joe and Nancy have a lovely cottage in the country. I made hot cross buns, an English tradition at Easter, and they came out fabulous and tasted so good toasted with butter. The kids enjoyed putting crosses on them.
Good Friday on the Road
It rained all night and was still raining when we left at 6:30 am. After 1hour of driving we stopped at Kijabe to see Hargins and Nyangeu. The child was sleeping and had experienced some fever during the night following her surgery. We are still waiting on the neurosurgeon’s diagnosis. After leaving Hargins home-made chicken soup, fruits, books and a small portable DVD player to watch some movies, we headed back up the hill in thick fog to the main road and headed for Naivasha. As soon as we passed through, the cloud and rain cleared. We stopped at the Delamere farmers market and stocked up on cheap fruit and veg. Two hours later we were making great time and in Nakuru. So far the roads were good and traffic not too heavy. Only one stretch of road works to deal with which slowed us down a little. It took longer than we thought to get to Eldoret, partly because the road was so severely ingrained by the heavy trucks going up the mountain and the ridge in the middle kept hitting the bottom of our vehicle. We stopped once more to buy a bucket of potatoes for 80 shillings ($1)and then drove straight through Eldoret and onto Kitale. Now that road was bad and 5 minutes of swaying around to avoid massive craters in the road, Agum started throwing up. But we finally made it by 3pm. One neat thing we saw several times were church groups walking along the side of the road carry large crosses in remembrance of the day Jesus carried His cross to Calvary.
Going Up Country
One of the hardest things about being apart from Sabet is during special times likes Easter where we celebrate our Lord’s resurrection without him. It has been over 2 years since Sabet and I have had to spend so much time apart and it’s not easy. So we decided to get out of Nairobi for a few days and travel ’up country’ to Kitale and spend Easter celebrating with Joe and Nancy Losee. They are our bible school teachers, also out of Sudan on R & R while the pastors take a break. I don’t like to drive in Kenya as the roads are full of delinquent drivers and potholes, so Gordon, our logistician, said if he would drive us to Kitale and go to Kisumu from there and visit his family. We have to get up early as it’s a 7 hour journey and 75% of Nairobi will leave to also go ‘up country’ on Good Friday for the long weekend.