The Real Reason
The day dawned with the sounds of the children preparing for their day. Dressed and fed and in classes by 7 AM. Several times during the day we had dozens of eyes watching every move we made, crowding closer and closer till we had to tell them to move back again. But those eyes, full of intelligence and curiosity, wondering what these silly white folks with hairy arms are doing. Hair on arms here is never seen. The only image they have of our Heavenly Father is presented by the pastor and caretakers here and they do it beautifully. They are safe and healthy and fed and cared for in a loving atmosphere. They will know a God who wants them and takes care of them.
This was the most complicated plumbing job FoH have ever done for an installation. For the tank to be of best use for the pastor, we needed to run 125 feet of pipe in 3 different directions with faucets and plumed into the main from the street. Thank God for Al who is trained as a plumber.
We got to go to another set of hardware stores today. As long as I do this, I don’t think I will get used to this style of shopping. As part of the group was shopping for parts, Ann and I went to the cyber café so I could get out last nights post. The house here does not have internet (it’s amazing that the children can survive at all). As I was getting it posted, I realized they were playing Christian music there; it’s the quickest the internet has worked for me since I have been here. Anybody see a connection there?
Kenya is a Christian nation with about 70% of the 40 million people here professing they are Christians.
The work got finished and we will be able to do the training tomorrow with all of the key people and still have some time to see some of the other amazing animals here at some parks that are close to Nairobi.
The thing that marked the day though were the conversations that I was blessed to be part of. I talked about Gods healing power with a team member and was able to share what my wife’s ministry is about with the pastor. He circled back around to the topic at dinner and loved the focus of being sons and daughters of the King. He thinks we place too much focus on all of our shortcomings and brokenness instead of living like children of the King. It was great conversation and illustrated for us that relationship building is as important to these trips as is the purifier installations.
One more full day here and then we are on a plane back to the states. Please continue to pray for our safety. I do need to let you know that we are all functioning as a team beautifully with no cross words or short tempers, another gift from God. If anyone has ever traveled with a group of people, you know what I mean.
Brian McCall
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