Last Friday we spent the day at Heritage School (Tarrin, our eldest, teaches here) presenting the kids in Kenya to all her Language Arts classes. They are going to begin a pen-pal project with the kids at Nice View Academy/Orphanage, so they had good questions – “what do they like to play?” (football, what we call soccer), “do they miss having things?” (they don’t miss what they don’t have, see around them or know is out there i.e. Wii, gameboys etc.) and one girl asked “what happens during ‘that time of the month’ for the girls?” (before we were able to supply pads some girls didn’t go to school during their period and most used strips of cloth washed and reused each month).
I loved the simplicity of some of their thoughts, one boy asked why, if they are hurting there, we can’t just bring them back here and help them. I know it’s much more complicated than that, but he saw a need and wanted to fix it. Maybe he’ll be the next generation of missionary to give hope to the hopeless!
Then yesterday we were invited to Voyage Into Our Heritage 2010 presented by Faith Celebration Ministries & Kingdom Dancers United. We met Krystylle (co-founder of Kingdom Dancers) way back in July 2008 when Kingdom Dancers performed at our Experience Kenya event. At last nights event we saw beautiful dances, singing and even mime all celebrating Psalm 133:1 (Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity!”) It was a wonderful evening of worship and praise together with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
