Visits with Friends
The Colonial Team left on Sunday after Jeff Lindsay preached in a local church. I was preaching in a different church that morning, so I said goodbye to them as they left the ICM campus around 7:30 a.m. They were heading off on Safari to Sweetwater National Park. They will then go on to visit refugee camps in neighboring countries.
On Sunday afternoon, I met Dick Barnley of Sirikwa Safaris about 25 km out of Kitale to go flyfishing in the Cherangani Hills. We had a great afternoon fishing a river at about 9,500 feet but not catching anything. I had three rises all afternoon. The fly selection seemed not to match anything happening on the river. Dick's rod was an old fiberglass rod and worked well enough. The scenery was beautiful.
Last night, Arthur and Molly Rouner and the team from the Pilgrim Center came into town. They had with them their daughter and Son-in-law, Kristen and Bruce Jeide and their two children, Anna (10) and Billy (8). In addition, there were two other men, Ed Penney and Roger ?. We had dinner at the Kitale Club with about 16 of Arthur's friends from ICM in Kitale and the branch campus on Mt. Elgon. The testimonies from Arthur's former students were touching. Several of them call him Grandpa.
Today Arthur and his team visited my class. I asked Arthur and Kristen to speak about challenges they have faced in the pastorate and found myself moved to the point of tears as they shared. The students were deeply touched by this visit as well. About mid-morning they headed off for Kiwawa (about four hours north) to visit with Arthur's friends among the Pokot.
This afternoon I visited the Legacy Christian School where I spoke to about 70 students. John Masonic was my host. We gave out soccer balls from Colonial Church and I gave away all of my balloons to these joyful children ranging in age from 5 to 14.
Tonight, I had dinner at Bernard and Lois Chege's home. We arrived at their home around 6 p.m. Bernard is the Dean of Students at ICM. Their yard looked like a brick yard. He is literally making bricks for his home that he is about to build. They have at least six stacks of bricks as tall as me and stretching 20 feet long 4-6 bricks wide. Building materials we use in North America cannot be used here. Termites would destroy any wood construction, so even interior walls are made with brick or mud. They also have live stock; a cow, a lamb, a goat and several chickens. Banana trees are beginning to produce fruit that will be ripe in about seven months!
Dinner was wonderful and the company was a delight. I gave their son Stanley a box of crayons and some of the paper Kathy sent with me. He immediately went to work drawing pictures of buses, rockets, jets, a house and the moon! Several from ICM joined us and there was laughter and good conversation throughout the evening.
On Sunday afternoon, I met Dick Barnley of Sirikwa Safaris about 25 km out of Kitale to go flyfishing in the Cherangani Hills. We had a great afternoon fishing a river at about 9,500 feet but not catching anything. I had three rises all afternoon. The fly selection seemed not to match anything happening on the river. Dick's rod was an old fiberglass rod and worked well enough. The scenery was beautiful.
Last night, Arthur and Molly Rouner and the team from the Pilgrim Center came into town. They had with them their daughter and Son-in-law, Kristen and Bruce Jeide and their two children, Anna (10) and Billy (8). In addition, there were two other men, Ed Penney and Roger ?. We had dinner at the Kitale Club with about 16 of Arthur's friends from ICM in Kitale and the branch campus on Mt. Elgon. The testimonies from Arthur's former students were touching. Several of them call him Grandpa.
Today Arthur and his team visited my class. I asked Arthur and Kristen to speak about challenges they have faced in the pastorate and found myself moved to the point of tears as they shared. The students were deeply touched by this visit as well. About mid-morning they headed off for Kiwawa (about four hours north) to visit with Arthur's friends among the Pokot.
This afternoon I visited the Legacy Christian School where I spoke to about 70 students. John Masonic was my host. We gave out soccer balls from Colonial Church and I gave away all of my balloons to these joyful children ranging in age from 5 to 14.
Tonight, I had dinner at Bernard and Lois Chege's home. We arrived at their home around 6 p.m. Bernard is the Dean of Students at ICM. Their yard looked like a brick yard. He is literally making bricks for his home that he is about to build. They have at least six stacks of bricks as tall as me and stretching 20 feet long 4-6 bricks wide. Building materials we use in North America cannot be used here. Termites would destroy any wood construction, so even interior walls are made with brick or mud. They also have live stock; a cow, a lamb, a goat and several chickens. Banana trees are beginning to produce fruit that will be ripe in about seven months!
Dinner was wonderful and the company was a delight. I gave their son Stanley a box of crayons and some of the paper Kathy sent with me. He immediately went to work drawing pictures of buses, rockets, jets, a house and the moon! Several from ICM joined us and there was laughter and good conversation throughout the evening.
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