notes from africa, chapter 2

hello all!
Welp. I am now in a small shanty town called Narok. After staying at the Russells place at the gate of the Mara (game reserve) we went to Nairobi for one night. The drive takes about 4 or 5 hours. We saw the Russells daughter at her school in Kijabe (1 hour outside of Nairobi) and then stayed the night in tents in Nairobi. This morning we drove out to Narok, which is in between the Mara and Nairobi. We will be here for the next three days. Timm are I organizing a library and teaching at the chapel services at a small school here. After our time here we will travel up to north Kenya(lake turconna {sp?}). I think we will be there for about two weeks. After that I am not sure where we will be yet.

So far the trip has been a lot of doing and a lot of learning (which is great). We did get that concrete slab poured for the Russells house (which turned out great), we taught a group of boys about some virtues for living (out of the book of Peter), we went on a game drive in the Mara and watched as six lions tore apart a wildabeast, chased Zebra's on 4wheeler's, and hung out with a ton of Maasai people. We have been having lunch everyday with three Maasai warriors and then after lunch throwing Rungus (small wooden sticks with one large end). Man can those guys throw.

Things have been well and busy, we are learning a ton and may even be helping some people. I am excited for the times to come.
Please help by praying.

Please pray:

that I could have some much needed processing time. I am in need of time to adjust. you know... think, read/write, pray and what not. I have not had much alone time and Africa is a lot to swallow for me.

for safety. We are going to be in some crowded areas in the next week and there is a lot of commotion about a proposed constitution change next week. Please pray for Timm, Jon, the Russells, and myself; and please pray for peace in Nairobi and Narok as things are becoming violent.

Thank God neither Timm nor myself have gotten sick (not even a little). Please pray for continued health.

that we would be effective speakers and workers. I am worried that I will not be relevant in my speaking to the people. Please pray that we would help in equipping the students/people here as they are very short on teachers.

that plans would work out for Sudan and that we could have communications with our contact (stephan) as we have not heard from him in some time.

that I would excel in my study of swahili. I have been trying diligently to learn, but the faster I can speak the better things will be. Almost everyone knows English, but they only speak it when they have to.



Thank you all so much for your prayers. I think that I will be able to get back to this cafe in the next couple days so please let me know what is going on in your lives. Just post a comment on this post. It would be great to here from you all.

much love.