Thursday - August 28th

Today was a busy day - finalizing on plans, baking and shopping. Around noon I headed out with Ogoti Kenani, our Kenyan administrator to join the Kajiado District Lay Workers Meeting already in progress. After I greeted everyone I walked over to the school to see if there were any of our girls there (they are on holiday) but all were gone. The school compound seemed very quiet and lonely without all their voices and laughter filling it.

Back at the Lay Workers Meeting - I took pictures of some of our newer lay workers, updated a couple of their bios and waited while they wrote thank you letters. This time I did something a little different though - I asked ALL of them to write thank you letters to their sponsors - even though many of them do not have sponsors. They were surprised and said, "but we don't have sponsors". I shared with them that I have faith that God has already found them a sponsor and that when the time is right He will send that sponsor to us - we need to have faith, and so we are showing our faith by already thanking that sponsor.Big smiles came over their faces and they began to thank their new sponsors.

Ogoti Kenani gave out items that we had brought from the Union office for them including radios from Adventist World Radio and a few Swahili Bibles. Then we headed home.

I finished up the last minute items in each of the rooms of those coming tonite for the mission trip- turned their hot water on, folded back there sheets and headed to the airport on to pick them all up. Everyone came in on time if not a little early which was great. We had a full bus with all the luggage, and no one had any problems coming through customs. Praise God - thank you for your prayers.

So the day is over, everyone is here, everyone is safe - and we are heading to bed to ready ourselves for tomorrow adventures.
Keep us in your prayers.

kim