Almost every moment of every day as we walk down the street we hear dozens of little voices yelling, “Muzungu! How are you!” while frantically waving and smiling at us. Some of the brave ones even come all the way up to us to shake our hands. “Muzungu” is the Swahili word used for “white person.” For many of the children in this town, we are the first white folk they’ve ever met. They are so fascinated by us, it’s funny. I kind of feel like a celebrity here. It’s also kind of weird.
We are in Busia, Kenya, a little town right on the border of Kenya and Uganda. We are working with a an incredible church here called Deliverance Church. The pastors and people in the church feel like friends I’ve known all my life. The Kenyan people as a whole are the friendliest, most joyful people I have met. They’re beautiful. I don’t know what it is, but more than any other country so far, I feel such peace here. My soul is content. I feel like I’m somewhere I’ve always wanted to be, except I never knew it.
We spent this past week going around town doing door-to-door evangelism and praying for people. I’ll be honest, evangelism is not something I’ve ever been confident in. But surprisingly, telling people that Jesus loves them more than anything in the world is a whole lot easier than I thought. It almost feels natural. Like I was made for this. And people are receptive. They’re eager for us to pray for them and we’ve even had the honor to see a handful of people give their life to Jesus.
This week we are doing construction work at the church, erecting some kind of shelter to hold the children’s sunday school classes. Throughout the rest of the month, we will continue evangelism, construction, visiting schools and an orphanage, singing and preaching at Deliverance church and churches around the area and of course, playing with the fascinated kids who sing “Muzungu! Muzungu!”
