Pentecost

Back home you are celebrating Pentecost with the coming of the Holy Spirit and colors of red, orange and yellow and beautiful hymns. Today we attended the English service at PCEA Musa Gitau Church and sang "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God All Mighty.....".  Our Pentecost was in Kikuyu and broken English. The Holy Spirit fills our new friends with hope for a bright future. During the service Fredrick's mom auctioned off homemade fermented porridge.   The members of our team had a bidding war going and took home 4 gallons for snacks for the boys.

Overnight we had rain which continued into the mid morning. It made the unpaved roads almost impassible - driving seemed like something you would see on a video game.

After a detour and then spinning out, our car became stuck in the mud a few hundred yards from the church.  We abandoned the car and walked the remainder of the way to church. The mud  was as slippery as ice.  We were all in hysterical laughter by the time we reached church covered in mud.

Note the time of the Teen Service.  Can you imagine teens in America getting up for church at 7am?

This is what our feet looked like after we were back to the car and cleaned off our shoes!  On the last three trips to Kenya we brought mud boots and never needed them.  So we left them home this time -  probably not a good decision.

Next stop after church was to pick up the boys.  The road to the house was impassable by car so they walked down to the end of the road where we picked them up.   By this time we were running too late to make the Elephant Center so we visited the Giraffe Center instead.  Most had never been there and we showed them how to kiss a giraffe. They giggled as the giraffes' long tongues took the food from their mouths. They were so adorable. 

When the sun came out this afternoon we scrubbed our red mud-caked shoes. The mud was almost like cement. We can see how it is used to plaster homes.

We part ways for a few days. Our team has worked hard to accomplish the dream of a home for boys. Jen returns to the states soon to a new job as youth director for a church in Greenville, SC. The rest of us go on safari and return for a day to see the boys and possibly do a few things at the Comet House before returning home.  We wish the boys could go on safari with us. These boys have touched our hearts.

 

Left to right: Peter, Wycliffe, Joseph, Edwin, Brian, Ian, Morris

Back row: Jen, Andrea, Ethel, Nancy, Parker (aka Kamau)

We will not post for a few days while we are at Maasi Mara.