Last Sunday:
8am Breakfast– Hot wheat cereal with bananas, kenyan tea (SO GOOD!) and eggs
9am Devotion– Consider Team Rush adopted children of our contacts! So we join the family in their daily devotion where we are currently memorizing Psalm 122, speak on encouraging verses of the Word, then pray for current concerns.
10am Church – After the BUMPY drive to a local village, we enjoyed an amazing church service. We began the service by jumping, skipping and running around the sanctuary while shouting up praises to the Lord! We were also asked to sing some worship songs, which of course I loved. The little children there were so cute and they flock to us like magnets!
1pm Lunch– We went back to our home for lunch where we ate SPAGHETTI and MASHED POTATOES! Seriously, that was lunch! But of course I ate some cabbage and drank water to make it healthy, so it all evened out.
2pm My Roadside Adventure – Following a huge lunch, we jumped back into the van to travel across town for a CD release party. I drank a lot of water earlier that day, so I found myself really needing a toilet. However, along the roads of Africa, there are very few gas stations with restrooms…if any at all. I just could not hold it any longer, so they had to pull over and I had to pee on the side of the road. Thankfully Chelsea came with me to block some of the view and also hold the baby wipes for me. As I was finishing, she told me to really hurry up, but did not tell me why. Later on she explained that rats were running towards us. Rats. Anyway, I did what I needed to do, and I felt much better for the last leg of the van ride.
3pm CD Release Party – Now I have been to a couple of CD release parties in the states, but this was unlike anything I had ever been to before. There was a huge stage set up on the side of the road, with a couple THOUSAND people gathered around it. When we arrived we were rushed into this “celebrity tent” which was a really odd feeling. It could have been the fact that our contacts are really well known, or maybe it was just because we are very white people in a crowd of Africans. You can be the judge. A few minutes later we were told that we were the next act on the stage. Yes, amongst everyone who was performing, professional singers, youth choir groups with tons of practice, and Team Rush! A group of 6 white Americans who can decently sing a few songs. So Brooks grabbed his guitar, stood to the side, Chelsea and I grabbed the mics and we sang Our God is Greater, How He Loves Us and Mighty to Save for over a couple thousand people INCLUDING some members of Parlaiment. I could not make this up if I tried. It was quite humorous. Let’s just say that now we are planning to have some band practices so that we can be a bit more prepared next time. Even so, the host shook our hands and appreciated us so much! He loved us, and I’m sure God was laughing, so that is really all that matters.
7pm Dinner – Chapati is one of my favorite things in the whole wide world. It is like a pancake and a tortilla had an African love child and its called Chapati. It is really fun to put beans and cabbage inside of it and eat it like a burrito! Of course we ended dinner with some more amazing Kenyan tea. This tea is brewed with milk and sugar at the same time as the tea leaves are added, so it is very delicious. This house even has its own cows, so all the milk here is SUPER fresh. No preservatives here! All natural eating Ashley is back! Because I have so much missed my organic diet. However I am running hard in the mornings to fit off all these carbs!
8pm Devotion – We end everyday meeting together as a family. After 8 months of being away from home and away from the family setting, it is nice to be apart of this family here. So we practice saying Psalm 122 again, then pray for health for the family, food for the orphanages, and the growth of the new churches in the area. Just to name a few prayer items.
