Jambo! I’ve made it to Africa and I love it here! I've been dreaming about Africa for 23 years. I feel like I belong. I feel at home. It only took 1 day to realize that I'm an Amerikenyan at heart.
This month I'm excited to beworking with Deliverance Church Southland in southern Nairobi. The pastor and his wife just had a baby 2 days ago and it's exciting to arrive at such a time. I’m staying in the house of a wonderful older woman we call Mama Milka who is a member of that church. She has completely opened her house to my team and has loved on us like we are her own children. Another member of the church is cooking our team amazing meals so that we can focus on all the ministries that are going on here.
We do street ministry, teach English, serve in the church administratively, do praise and worship alongside the worship team here, we are participating in a 40 days of purpose program alongside locals and inviting people we meet on the street to attend with us. There is also a daily hour long prayer meeting which may sound boring to some of you. It did to me at first. Let me tell you, if you heard these men and women pray, you would be wide awake. It sounds like people are fighting. And they are! They are waging spiritual warfare in a simple 4-walled structure. They are crying and shouting and whispering and walking and jumping. I never experienced anything like it before. The first time I heard it I was overwhelmed. I just sat there, completely out of my element. I began to listen to the words they were speaking and started weeping so hard. I rarely cry and even less so in public. I was so broken by their prayers, their faithfulness in coming everyday and how desperately they spoke to the Lord. If anything these people should come to North America and teach us how to pray, instead of Americans coming to teach English.
It is the rainy season here so almost every afternoon it thunders and downpours. It is cool and and a much appreciated respite from the last 7 countries which were quite hot. Also, we don’t have to worry as much about Malaria here as it is not as common but still happens. What a blessing!
I’m so excited to be here this month.
Pray today for:
Safety- physical, and spiritual
My health–the change in weather and temperature has affected my sinus and allergies.
Praise- the pastor and his wife that we are working closely with this month just had a baby 2 days ago! It’s been such a delight to be here during such a sweet time for their family!
