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Kenya and Uganda 2019
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- Oct 20, 2019
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 4,577 ft
- Kenya Kakamega Lubinu 0.305564, 34.5556950°18’20” N 34°33’21” E
Day 5
Sunday at Gospel Springs
October 20, 2019 in Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
A good night’s sleep was needed, and apart from interruptions from a Saturday night party, a call to prayer and hotel noise it was just about had by most.
The day started with Breakfast outside and then a trip to the church - we arrived to be greeted by many children outside, the church is now in its new building and is quite unrecognisable from before. We were introduced when we got there - the church had probably started at 730 and we arrived at 10 - and then were asked to preach, with 10 minutes notice! The problem with speaking is that any examples are very far removed from the day to day life of the people at the church - their worries are for food, shelter and clothes, much different from the worries we have. ‘Walking by faith and not by sight’ was the passage used with examples of driving in the torrential rain from the night before not knowing where we were going, but having faith that by following the road ahead we would reach our destination despite the conditions around (not even sure that example worked as they are very used to electric storms and heavy rain!) It was great to see friends from before like Christine and Tom as well as the children like Sylvia and Jefftha.

For lunch time we were invited to a family connected to the church - a lunch of chapati, chicken, rice, ugali after which we went back to the guest house for a rest, run and watch of the Liverpool - Man U game! Followed by dinner at Pastor Wycliff and Mary’s house with their family.Read more
Traveler Sounds great xx Anna x
10/21/19Reply
Traveler Beautiful pictures! Enjoy every minute xx
10/21/19Reply
Traveler Heaps of love and prayers to and for you all. It looks so amazing - thanks for sharing! Xx
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Kenya and Uganda 2019
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- Oct 21, 2019
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 4,557 ft
- Kenya Kakamega Lubinu 0.305763, 34.5559050°18’21” N 34°33’21” E
Day 6
Off to Schools
October 21, 2019 in Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
As yesterday ‘Heros’ Day’ in Kenya today was a bank holiday - however Light Spring Academy was open although slightly depleted in numbers. Our arrival was greeted with African tea and ground nuts after which we went to meet the children who were asked to introduce themselves. As they quietly spoke, some afraid of the strangers in front of them we knew that this shyness would not last. It was about 5 minutes after they had gone back into their class to practise for their end of term celebration. Their singing and dancing is really amazing!

Their home lives however are often far from happy. Some have HIV, one of the brightest 10 year old’s father has died from it it, her mother is infected and she was born with it. Others have very chaotic lives. While the children were playing we went for a walk in the village to see some of the homes the children come from. We visited one home where only the ‘wife’ was at home, although she was very young and had only come yesterday. Polygamy is common and some ‘marriages’ the wife will only stay a few days. Poverty often forces young girls into these situations. Another family we visited make a living by cutting rocks into smaller pieces, it is hard work and if they manage to sell them, a whole pile is worth £3.

After lunch we went to Booker Academy - a good boarding school where we played some ‘cricket’, however by this time it had started raining so it was indoors with around 100 children, not ideal!

Dinner at Fred and Esther’s then bed zzzzzRead more
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- Oct 23, 2019
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 4,459 ft
- Kenya Kakamega Lubinu 0.317787, 34.559220°19’4” N 34°33’33” E
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Day 8
Teacher Teacher
October 23, 2019 in Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
The day started as usual, we went to Light Spring Academy and saw all the children. We again tried to teach them something but that was more successful for some more than others. Zeph was teaching the Grade 3s, who are older and understand English quite well. Whereas I (Zach) was teaching the PP2s, who are slightly younger and don’t understand us very well. This combination of the younger age and the lack of understanding meant they took full advantage of a Muzungu teaching them, stealing water and sunglasses from me and then snatching chalk off each other, and `I couldn’t do anything to stop it because they didn’t understand. Dad and Wycliffe went to the Mwale Medical and Technology City www.mwalemedicalandtechnologycity.com a supposedly $2 billion project nearby to the church. The bought some bricks from the church over 2 years ago and still haven’t paid - the amount outstanding is around $700. He went to the ‘mall’ where the office is located - this mall is a large business with large shelves mainly selling water as well as wellington boots and even hard hats, all very spread out on the vast shelves. After being told to wait for 30 minutes to see the manager, he then phoned to say he was very busy. Dad also spoke to him without too much success saying he’d pay by the end of November. The whole scheme seems a huge fraud with the mainly US investors unlikely to see any of their money, while the ‘chief investor’ and owner Julias Mwale seems to live in a luxury villa next to the complex (apparently in an office displaying photoshopped photos of himself with world leaders!)

We then went to Booker and it didn’t rain that much! We had lots of children playing cricket on the field and (hopefully) they were all enjoying it. Some girls we had met earlier in the week tried to plait mum’s hair, using her brace elastic bands to tie the ends. We had to say goodbye to everyone at Booker as they were finishing school so we weren’t going back again. We had a photo and they all thought that Zeph’s hair was a wig so all started stroking our hair as ‘it’s so soft’! They then asked for our ‘autographs’ so we wrote a message on a paper and all signed it. We went back to the hotel and then went to Fred and Esther’s for a fish dinner.Read more
Traveler Looks great and I am sure the children really appreciated you being there xx
10/25/19Reply
Traveler Sounds like you had fun teaching the children and as you said they took advantage of a Muzungu teaching them!! Sounded amusing them thinking Zeph's hair was a wig! It has obviously meant a lot to them having you with them and they have enjoyed it as much as you have. That's really great! Lots of love D, M, G and G xxxx
10/25/19Reply
Traveler What a beautiful picture!
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