The Kayo’s 20-year-old nanny, Joyce
I am in awe at how humble and hard-working Joyce is. She works from the early morning til 9 PM every day cleaning, doing laundry, cooking, taking care of Timothy and Tiffany, and serving us well. God bless her.
Yummy, spiced dinners
We ate breakfast and dinner at the Kayo home, and boy, were dinners good! Africans tend to not add much additional flavor to their dishes, but Joyce spiced our dinners well! She made some amazing bean and lentil meals!
A Holy Spirit chat with Ruth Kayo
Ruth is a 35-year-old mother of two and wife to Pastor Ayub. She is compassionate, warm, real, welcoming, direct, caring, and a bit sassy! I have enjoyed living in her home and hearing how much she loves the Lord. One day while we were at the church, the Spirit told her to sit down and chat with me. I ended up telling her a lot of my testimony, and she poured some crazy amounts of wisdom and love into me and my story. My team said I was literally “glowing” after our meeting! I will miss her!
Being sick … again
I had envisioned Kenya to be a time of recovery and restoration; however, that did not happen to the extent I visualized. The first week went well in continuing to regain energy from my post-malaria experiences in Tanzania, but I came down with bacterial bronchitis and another amoeba infection in the second week. This is how my conversation with the Lord went, “Seriously God? I am missing more ministry and feeling miserable again?!?! Really?! Bronchitis in Africa?” Oh course I had some things to learn through it all … the main lessons being physical, emotional, and spiritual rest.
I spent a week in that bed on the left (way better than my tent though!)
Manual labor regardless of our ministry
We got our fix with manual labor this month; it reminded me of our months in Honduras and Ukraine. Regardless of our ministry this month, most, if not all, was manual labor. Manual labor tests your humility and patience! I’ve cleaned more dishes on The Race than I probably will in a lifetime!
Cleaning the windows at Deliverance Church
These are the "brooms" we used to sweep the
dead leaves in the orphanage backyard
Wiping down some walls
Sitting in a blanket saturated in urine
I feel like I have come a long way since my pre-World Race days. I accidentally sat in a puddle of urine at an orphanage, and just said, “Lovely, my pants and underwear are soaked with urine; oh well.”
The Kayo Family, Pastor Zak, John, and Earnest
I definitely won’t forget our ministry contacts in Nakuru! They are Spirit-filled, God-loving, amazing people who poured into us just as much as we poured into them. My Romanian and Kenyan contacts have been my favorite thus far on The Race!
John and Earnest in the middle
Pastor Zak and his family
The Kayo family (Tim's B-day party!)
Incredibly bumpy tuk tuk rides
As Chase would say, “This could be an amusement park ride.” If a tuk tuk has a suspension system, it doesn’t work, and, coupled with uneven, rocky African roads, we had to “grin and bear” every single adventure in tuk tuk land. We will all need numerous chiropractic adjustments upon arrival back to the States.
4 of us in the tuk tuk seat (Chase is sitting with the driver)
Dan and Nathan in the "trunk"
