Today was an awesome day of worshipping Abba with the members of the Imani Sirwo AIC church. The church building has progressed very nicely since the team was here in October. Where all they had was supporting pillars and the metal roof, today they have windows and brick walls. The building project will end with a “harambee” (pronounced ha-rom-bay) to raise money for seating.
We enjoyed worshipping with the children as they sang and danced to the Lord. One little fellow, around 3 or 4 years old, was trying to keep up with the big kids and it was beautiful to watch them patiently work around him instead of sending him back into the congregation.
Ellen did an awesome job of presenting Acts 1 & 2 and then challenging the body of believers to think about what the Church really is about. You can’t improve on perfection so I wrapped up the morning service with a blessing to the congregation. Once again we were presented with the traditional women’s dresses . . . wouldn’t you think by now these guys would have figured out that we just “don’t do dresses”?!
We visited the shops of a couple of church members on our way through the market and then went to the home of Caroline and Joseph for lunch and fellowship. Afterwards we had a time of prayer for specific individual needs as well as for the congregation as a whole. Afterwards we fellowshipped some more over tea. It was humorous because the conversation was slow at first; we were waiting for them to talk to us so we could just listen while they were waiting for us to do the same thing!
After this, Pastor Isaac took us to a nearby family’s home where a woman of just 40 years had passed away unexpectedly the day before. Ellen described it best as a “condolence service” where many members of the community came to publicly offer their sympathy to the widower. Zippy finally arrived home after a grueling weekend of playing 72 rounds of golf at a women’s outing. She’s already talking about playing more golf later this week!
It’s an early night as Ellen and I wind down. We’ve written in our journals, debriefed and are now sitting in front of a blazing fire in the fireplace of the parlor room reflecting on the days events. Tomorrow is another opportunity to listen and learn.
Prayer requests:
• Pray for the cyber café that was set up last trip. There have been electrical and signal difficulties that have not yet been overcome and need to be resolved in order for it to become a vehicle for the Gospel and a source of support for pastors
• Pray against strongholds of any kind; Dawn had a disturbing dream the first night here and wants to remain alert for disguised attacks from the enemy
• Ask God to keep us safe as we travel, whether by foot, by car or by boda boda (motorcycle). With all the rains Kenya has been having, it has been good for the maize crops but bad for the roads.
We enjoyed worshipping with the children as they sang and danced to the Lord. One little fellow, around 3 or 4 years old, was trying to keep up with the big kids and it was beautiful to watch them patiently work around him instead of sending him back into the congregation.
Ellen did an awesome job of presenting Acts 1 & 2 and then challenging the body of believers to think about what the Church really is about. You can’t improve on perfection so I wrapped up the morning service with a blessing to the congregation. Once again we were presented with the traditional women’s dresses . . . wouldn’t you think by now these guys would have figured out that we just “don’t do dresses”?!
We visited the shops of a couple of church members on our way through the market and then went to the home of Caroline and Joseph for lunch and fellowship. Afterwards we had a time of prayer for specific individual needs as well as for the congregation as a whole. Afterwards we fellowshipped some more over tea. It was humorous because the conversation was slow at first; we were waiting for them to talk to us so we could just listen while they were waiting for us to do the same thing!
After this, Pastor Isaac took us to a nearby family’s home where a woman of just 40 years had passed away unexpectedly the day before. Ellen described it best as a “condolence service” where many members of the community came to publicly offer their sympathy to the widower. Zippy finally arrived home after a grueling weekend of playing 72 rounds of golf at a women’s outing. She’s already talking about playing more golf later this week!
It’s an early night as Ellen and I wind down. We’ve written in our journals, debriefed and are now sitting in front of a blazing fire in the fireplace of the parlor room reflecting on the days events. Tomorrow is another opportunity to listen and learn.
Prayer requests:
• Pray for the cyber café that was set up last trip. There have been electrical and signal difficulties that have not yet been overcome and need to be resolved in order for it to become a vehicle for the Gospel and a source of support for pastors
• Pray against strongholds of any kind; Dawn had a disturbing dream the first night here and wants to remain alert for disguised attacks from the enemy
• Ask God to keep us safe as we travel, whether by foot, by car or by boda boda (motorcycle). With all the rains Kenya has been having, it has been good for the maize crops but bad for the roads.
--Dawn
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