Jambo from Busia Kenya! I’m am going
into my third week here. I have come to love this place. We have been
working with Deliverance Church doing door to door (or hut to hut
sometimes) ministry. We have also been dividing and going to preach
at different churches in the area. Tonight we will go to the hospital
here in town…
Africa-how do I describe. It hit me the
first time I stepped out of the hostel walls in narobi. There is
something different in the air. Its thicker here. My nostrils are
constantly overwhelmed with the smells . Our humanity seems harder to
ignore here. We sweat and smell. Dirt seems to sit upon everything
here. Yet it doesn’t seem out of place. The people shine brighter
because of it. The people are so beautiful here. And despite the
poverty life still happens. Love is still to be found and laughter to
be had. God is still at work even when the plumbing and electricity
is not. Its a simple life. Harder yet more joyful almost. But pain is
still a reality. You can’t ignore the half naked children, the ribs
that poke out of animal and human alike sometimes. I can’t ignore the
stories of the houses we visit of husbands that still leave, children
that still die, and illness that still inflicts. But the good news is
that my God is bigger. He is healing! He is restoring! He is
comforting! I’m learning that His goodness endures forever and His
kingdom comes where I go.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus througout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” Ephesians 3: 20-21
