Bon Jovi always says it best.
Jambo,
Am writing to you from Kakamega Kenya. Life is well. We are staying with a pastor and his family right now, and things have been interesting to say the least. Kenya has been much different than I thought it would be. The gospel seems to be everywhere here. Everybody seems to have heard of Jesus and I guess I was just expecting a larger gap in just knowledge of Christ.
So far we have done nothing but door to door evangelism and it has been a little tiring, but also very good and, again, very interesting. I have prayed with probably 15 people or so to accept Jesus into their life, a salvation prayer if you may. About 4 really seemed to get it, and about 7 seemed to have no idea what was happening.
We are somewhat like rockstars here, its a bit awkward. We are the first white people to stay in the village we are in and it is very apparent when we are just walking around. We will be here until the 26th where we will head back to Nairobi for a debrief and then we believe on to Uganda.
We start going to schools and talking next week on Monday so I am looking forward to that. I think if nothing else, being white we will be able to hold their attention. Around here, its apparently no big deal to just go into a school and start sharing the gospel, its kind’ve weird, and foreign, but also really cool.
I have been fairly homesick this week, not sure why, might just be that I’m living with another family, but life really is going well. The family we are staying with generally goes to bed at around 12 and everyone seems to be up and running by 6, I don’t know how they do it. It really makes us feel like lazy and slow americans. We of course have chickens and cows that walk around our yard, a very clearly an african thing. I have been asked many times whether or not I have ever seen a cow, I tell them we have them all over Texas and they seemed fairly shocked. On the other hand, they think not having monkeys on the side of the road is quite strange, they assumed they were all over America.
Well I’ve got to run, but I hope all is well back home, blessings to everyone and I will try and post a more thorough blog next week.
Callan
P.S. Please be praying for AIM and the efforts they will be making to get into Haiti
P.P.S Please consider giving to the Jowers on my team, they are still in need of quite a large sum of money.
