Today I feel was the day of hope. After last Sunday and the hopelessness I felt over the Street kids. It was hard to think of going back. The day we spent with the street kids I did not sleep that night, is all I could do is pray and smell the glue they had.
This week we spent with local pastors going door to door in the area we are living in. We shared the gospel and invited them to the crusade we held every night in a field where we sing, share testimonies and do an invitation.
The saddest thing is I haven’t had my camera all week so I have no pictures.
So please picture this. We make our way down a red dirt road and fields. We had to go through three barbed wire fences which isn’t easy when you’re wearing a dress, which is the appropriate dress for women here. The sky here is So big and blue with heavy white clouds on the outskirts of the green hills. Up ahead is a green hill with mud huts sprinkled across it.
Up the hill is a group of people who are harvesting corn. Of course we join them and share the gospel with them while we worked. But this time the meeting was not meant for them it was meant for me and my teammate Laura.
The boys who where harvesting were already saved and they shared with us how they use to be street boys in Eldoret. They took opium and sniffed glue and ate trash out of the streets. They said someone came along and pulled them out and shared the gospel with them. This I needed to hear! It gave me hope that my team was the answer for the boys at the church.
We continued to the rest of the huts and had more moments where I could see in their eyes they were ready for this message. Kenya has been through a lot of violence in the last year due to political unrest. Every hut we visited had been robbed and assaulted by the riots. I could go on with stories that I heard.
We covered most of the hill and walked back to our home dirty, hot, sunburnt, but Happy. Not all days In Kenya are like this, But I needed this day.
Tomorrow Is Sunday and we will spend it having church with the Street kids, and I have the hope to go to them knowing that the glue is a lie from Satan and that we hold the answer.
