Sunday, April 17, 2011

Our last day to worship with Kenyan friends was spent in Kisii. We met Pastor James Mark at his open air church after walking along several muddy paths (not to be confused with the muddy roads!) we reached a pavilion type structure made from small diameter trees covered with a few meager branches and their leaves. We had been informed late Saturday evening that James Mark had arranged for three services today; two in the morning and one more after lunch. After the morning messages, we were taken to James Mark’s rental home where the women of the church served up a feast of chicken, chipati, spinach, and ugali. After lunch, Matt and Brian went back to the church for the last session while Ellen and I loaded up a backpack full of Bibles and started looking for opportunities to pass them out as gifts. Early on in our journey, “Mamma Rose” hooked up with us and became our escort. Two of the people we gifted with Bibles were teachers and one young girl aspires to be a teacher. Teachers are special to me because here in Kenya they are permitted to teach about God in their schools. In fact part of their curriculum is based on knowledge of the Bible. We had some great conversations and met some more beautiful people. When we were ready to meet back up with the rest of our group, Mamma Rose asked for one of our Bibles even though she had told us the print was too small for her to read. When I asked her what she would do with the Bible if we gave it to her, she said she would have her children read it to her. How awesome to evangelize two people at one time! Mamma Rose now has her very own copy of the Bible.

Our next stop was the home of Eucabeth, a women who had experienced demonic attacks for a long period but since she accepted Jesus as her Savior she has never had these problems again! She is a member of James Mark’s church and wanted to bless us with dinner and have us bless her home. Dinner was served up as chicken and rice along with bananas and fried potatoes. We actually got back to our rooms early tonight and are looking forward to a good night’s rest before we set out for Nairobi on Monday.