What a time we had. The team bonded well for the most part and we all enjoyed each other and had to get used to all of our quirky ways. We often spent 5 hrs each day in a mitatu(glorified Hiace with seats) and the girls would serenade us with songs and Phil would keep us in hysterics with his take on daily life.
God really led us there to seek Him and often our plans would change to help the different needs we saw. Most of our time was spent out in the middle of no where past a town called Kiserian with the Massai ladies. It is amazing how dependent on prayer you have to become in Africa, whether it be your vehicle breaking down at night(not safe) or an attack of the enemy on the team, through sickness or attitude, pretty much everything can go wrong at any moment and it does wonders for your time with God.
While there we spent time building houses from scratch(including digging ten holes for foundations, 2 feet deep into hard African soil).
We also saw God provide water from the well, and witnessed the final work of construction on this which will see it produce 5000 litres per day which even Mozungu's(white people) can drink from.
Other days saw us build a much needed double toilet over a pit in the ground, complete with toilet roll holders and sit down seat for the visiting teams(very grateful, they will be :). We also put up stud partitions in houses to give parents and children alike some privacy and we put proper beds into these houses too. God even led us to put up a wire fence around the Massai property to protect the families there, it was so encouraging for Linda and I as we saw the land God purchased the last time we were there, complete with running water, houses, toilets and even a fence for protection.
The verses in James Ch1 were very much in my mind during our time there, which talk about true Religion. They say, true religion is this, to help widows and Orphans in their distress. God led us to do this as we helped 1 widow with 6 kids and other widows with 4 children, it was us who were truly blessed by this experience.
Other days saw us at an Orphanage where we held babies and saw some haunting sights. The orphanage has 350 children, 45 babies and some only 4 days old, abandoned by parents but not by God. There we met the lady who takes care of all these kids, her name is Faith and wow what a strong woman, she even made time to prepare us lunch.
We found a spyware problem on one of their computers and we were again reminded of the evil in the world as it appeared someone was looking through their files on these kids, Paddy got on the case and we are working out a solution to the problem.
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