We made it!
Jambo!
We all made it safely to Kenya (all of our luggage made it too) –thank you all so much for your prayers! We got to spend a few hours in London, and did a quick running tour before heading back to the airport. It was so fun to go to GCC (the orphanage I’m staying at), and see all the kids! We just got a new baby a week ago, and she’s adorable! Hope is two months old, and smiles all the time. She was abandoned by the side of the road, and someone found her when they kicked her (thought she was dead), so they brought her to the police. She’s healthy, and tested negative for HIV- praise the Lord!
Life at GCC is a bit crazy, but I love it (so far, anyway). Everyone has been wonderful, and very welcoming. When the rest of the team is not there, the kids and housemums only speak Swahili, and of the few words I can pick out, I keep hearing “Jess-ee-kaa” and “mzungu” (white person). The older girls (Lucy, Zawadi, Teresia, Pauline, Susan, and Rahab) are teaching me how to do everything, and apparently I’m not very good at sweeping (a broom is a bundle of reeds) or peeling potatoes with a knife- I’m learning though. On Friday night, the older kids at GCC watched Survivor (their favorite show).
Yesterday, we took all the preschoolers from GCC and the HIV-extension home to the Giraffe Centre. We all got to feed the giraffes by hand, and we came back with 26 kids- the same number we left with (I’m sure any of you who’ve been here understand what an accomplishment that is!).
Today is Sunday, so we went to Church on the Rock, Langata this morning, and the team put on a “family day” this afternoon. On Tuesday, we’re headed to Makindu for two days to visit the girls at the girls’ home. Please pray for a safe trip, and that God would use us there.
Thanks, and God bless!
We all made it safely to Kenya (all of our luggage made it too) –thank you all so much for your prayers! We got to spend a few hours in London, and did a quick running tour before heading back to the airport. It was so fun to go to GCC (the orphanage I’m staying at), and see all the kids! We just got a new baby a week ago, and she’s adorable! Hope is two months old, and smiles all the time. She was abandoned by the side of the road, and someone found her when they kicked her (thought she was dead), so they brought her to the police. She’s healthy, and tested negative for HIV- praise the Lord!
Life at GCC is a bit crazy, but I love it (so far, anyway). Everyone has been wonderful, and very welcoming. When the rest of the team is not there, the kids and housemums only speak Swahili, and of the few words I can pick out, I keep hearing “Jess-ee-kaa” and “mzungu” (white person). The older girls (Lucy, Zawadi, Teresia, Pauline, Susan, and Rahab) are teaching me how to do everything, and apparently I’m not very good at sweeping (a broom is a bundle of reeds) or peeling potatoes with a knife- I’m learning though. On Friday night, the older kids at GCC watched Survivor (their favorite show).
Yesterday, we took all the preschoolers from GCC and the HIV-extension home to the Giraffe Centre. We all got to feed the giraffes by hand, and we came back with 26 kids- the same number we left with (I’m sure any of you who’ve been here understand what an accomplishment that is!).
Today is Sunday, so we went to Church on the Rock, Langata this morning, and the team put on a “family day” this afternoon. On Tuesday, we’re headed to Makindu for two days to visit the girls at the girls’ home. Please pray for a safe trip, and that God would use us there.
Thanks, and God bless!
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