It’s about 9:00PM and Ellen and I are doing one of the things we love most when in Kenya! We are sitting quietly in front of a blazing fire watching it burn down to coals and reflecting on the events of this day.
Our 9:00AM meeting with the architect began around 11:00 but we are learning to be flexible about these things. After all, “this is Kenya”, as we are so often told by our Kenyan friends when things don’t go according to plan. We walked the land and learned about some setbacks with laying the water lines and we discussed the possibility that a proposed access road being added by local officials may take part of our property. This could cause us to change the layout of our structures but we will wait until we have received “official” word before we try to cross that bridge. We spent some time back at the farm house going over our proposed building layout and getting input from the architect on what would work and what would not. To close out this meeting, we have made arrangements to meet with him in Kitale tomorrow morning so he can show us some of the buildings he has completed. This will give us a better idea of the quality of his work and also help us decide which construction materials are available here and which will be best to use on the community training center.
Late this afternoon, we visited one of the RUN board members who was unable to attend the meeting on Saturday due to a death in her family. We caught her up on what happened at the last meeting and gave her some insight on the agenda for the next meeting, scheduled for Wednesday. We enjoyed our time spent visiting with her and hearing some of her ideas.
Tomorrow’s plans, other than meeting again with the architect, are simply to get some housekeeping items done in town. We will be on our motorcycles tomorrow so pray especially for our safety. Neither motorbikes nor roads here are constructed like they are in the States, and we both have adjustments to make so we can stay safe.
Please pray with us and for us about the following upcoming appointments:
1. Pray for our conversation with the architect tomorrow. There is a delicate matter to be addressed with him for which we need God’s wisdom.
2. We are still waiting to receive a reply from Friday so continue remembering her.
3. Pray for our safety as we ride our motorbikes.
4. Wednesday morning is our second full meeting of the Kenya RUN board. Please pray for God’s agenda to be covered and for His wisdom to prevail in all our decisions.
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