We had Kenyan friends over for New Year’s Eve: Kimunya & Harriet and their three children, Tinashe (girl), Tatenda (boy), Tumelo (girl). Our little princesses were glad to have two visiting princesses to play dress-up with them. (Tumelo, just 2 1/2, had gone back inside before we got out the camera.)
In our house, we’ve started listening to our Christ-mas music today. At the moment, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is playing. Are we getting ahead of ourselves in the holiday schedule? No, we are focused on holy days rather than commercial rush. The old word for the Lord’s Supper or Communion is Eucharist which simply [...]
We’ve updated our contact page. Sometimes packages sent to us to the CMF-Kenya address (PO Box 59322 / 00200 City Square / Nairobi, KENYA) have … disappeared after arriving in Kenya. So we’ve gotten our own PO Box that we can check ourselves. So if anyone wants to send us some snail mail, use this [...]
A new house, curriculum development, training sunday school teachers for the Maasai churches, a special visitor from America … click here to view a PDF of our latest newsletter. We’ve posted some new pictures of the Maasai Women’s Ministry on our photo album page. Have you ever wondered just where we live? Take a bird’s [...]
This is my favorite road sign in Kenya (so far). Duka Moja is a small village in the Rift Valley half way between nowhere and lost. (Okay, it’s actually on the REALLY, REALLY NICE new highway between Maai Mahui and Narok.) But I think it’s funny because “duka moja” is Swahili for “one shop”. So [...]
For those of you who are not on our snail mailing list … click here to view a PDF of our March 2011 newsletter.
We no longer live in the bush, so we haven’t seen any elephants, baboons, and giraffes out of kitchen window here in Narok. (Narok is a “small town” with a population of around 100,000.) We’re on the edge of the river valley, and sometimes we’ve seen some zebras several kilometers away across the river. But [...]
