Today was looking to be a low-key day at the start. After taking breakfast with Zippy and Jela, we were able to go back to our house and look over our list of people we hope to meet and see who we still needed to visit. Zippy came looking for us about 11:30 and took us to see her new coffee and tea nurseries. Very tedious work! Planting small tea stalks in small plastic bags with dirt in them. We saw row after row of them – HUNDREDS! They are placed in small greenhouses and watered every 21 days. They will stay there for about six months when they will be transplanted to the farmland. One tea leaf start sells for 1 shilling but when it matures, each leaf from the bush can be sold for TEN shillings! That’s quite a return!
Next Zippy took us to see some of her land which is being purchased to build the RUN foundation guesthouse and will be the start of what we hope will be an agricultural cooperative in the Sibanga area. After we walked across and she showed us where a new access road would be and the line where we would get our electricity, we stopped to join hands and pray for the future of RUN, the use of this land, and the blessings it would bring to many Kenyans.
Timothy and Rose Mahindu invited us to their home for lunch so we met with them and had an opportunity to also visit with their children – Faith, David and Jeremiah. We talked about the Church (note the capital C) and how we are many members of the same body and we work together whether we do it through the same church (little c) or different ones. We took our loaner motorcycle to Timothy’s general parts store and he was able to fix us up with an oil change, a new spark plug, and the bolts to fasten our crank case cover back on the bike. An easy reason for the local authorities to pull us over, but not at all uncommon in the rough terrain here!
Our little nine-year-old friend Zipporah, who lives on the farm next to our hostess (also named Zipporah), has been begging us every day to take her to the market. Last time were here we took her to town for a soda with some of her little friends and it made a very lasting impression on her. So today we were told by “big Zippy” that “little Zipporah” would enjoy a trip to the Sirwo Plaza restaurant for something more than a soda. Zippy said it would something very special for her to remember so that was just what we did! One piece of cake, one donut, and two bottles of soda later, little Zipporah was finally full! A little more walking around town to see the sites, and we took her back home to her family. Already she is asking if we can do it again tomorrow!
No Bibles given out today because we were around Sibanga all day with friends. That means we’ll have to double our efforts tomorrow!
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