Today was a lovely day! We got up and investigated the neighbourhood where we are staying with a run.
After that we had a wonderful breakfast cooked by a chef where we are staying. He is very talented!
We arrived in Mathare North around 10:30am for the service at the Living Word Church where our good friend Pastor Oliver is the leader. This congregation knows how to worship!! We are always in awe with how they raise the roof with their singing and dancing. It does motivate one to get in the middle and start dancing away until we realize that we really do not have any rhythm compared to the Africans!!
Pastor Oliver introduced us and told the congregation that Rachael was the type of doctor that eats her patients!! He, of course, was referring to the Food animal side of veterinary medicine! After a good chuckle, Carolyn gave a very inspiring sermon from the book of Ephesians.
The service was lovely and it was our first time being in the new church.
After church, we went to one of the local malls to get a bite to eat. Their malls are starting to look very similar to our North American malls except the security is extremely tight- we had to enter through a detector just like at the airport!
After that we had a wonderful breakfast cooked by a chef where we are staying. He is very talented!
We arrived in Mathare North around 10:30am for the service at the Living Word Church where our good friend Pastor Oliver is the leader. This congregation knows how to worship!! We are always in awe with how they raise the roof with their singing and dancing. It does motivate one to get in the middle and start dancing away until we realize that we really do not have any rhythm compared to the Africans!!
Pastor Oliver introduced us and told the congregation that Rachael was the type of doctor that eats her patients!! He, of course, was referring to the Food animal side of veterinary medicine! After a good chuckle, Carolyn gave a very inspiring sermon from the book of Ephesians.
The service was lovely and it was our first time being in the new church.
After church, we went to one of the local malls to get a bite to eat. Their malls are starting to look very similar to our North American malls except the security is extremely tight- we had to enter through a detector just like at the airport!
We then had our board meeting for Tumaini and got the update on Tumaini from the Head teacher, Anaya, Pastor Oliver, Polly and Johnstone- chairman of the board. Overall Tumaini is doing well. At the end of 2017, they had two students score over 400/500 on their KCPE's which is the national exam that all students must write at the end of grade 8. This determines if/where they will go to secondary school. The students also went on a couple of field trips this past year and enjoyed them.
Tumaini is having some challenges with finding funds for building maintenance. In addition, the funding for the existing feeding program will end in December and so, unless new funding is found, the students will not get fed at school and this is sometimes their only source of food for the day.
We discussed ways to help promote Tumaini to try and find additional funding both in Kenya as well as abroad. We are going to do some filming in the next couple of days to try and create a promotional video.
After the board meeting we spent a short while just being with our friends on the board. Yes, we all are working to see the success of Tumaini School but, in addition, over the years, we have all become good friends!
Tumaini is having some challenges with finding funds for building maintenance. In addition, the funding for the existing feeding program will end in December and so, unless new funding is found, the students will not get fed at school and this is sometimes their only source of food for the day.
We discussed ways to help promote Tumaini to try and find additional funding both in Kenya as well as abroad. We are going to do some filming in the next couple of days to try and create a promotional video.
After the board meeting we spent a short while just being with our friends on the board. Yes, we all are working to see the success of Tumaini School but, in addition, over the years, we have all become good friends!
We returned to the guest house to have another wonderful dinner made by our personal chef and to do some work for tomorrow.
Tomorrow we shall spend the day at Tumaini school to see the sponsored students of Tumaini and to see the sponsored secondary students. Keep tuned in.
Tomorrow we shall spend the day at Tumaini school to see the sponsored students of Tumaini and to see the sponsored secondary students. Keep tuned in.