The Beginnings of God's Blessing in Kenya

All three of us are still trying to process everything we have seen the past few days. We came over here thinking we were the ones who were doing the serving and were proud of what we are doing, but we all have been truly humbled.

We have been served in so many ways. The staff at the place we are staying serve us at every meal and pray for us. The staff at BCC serves us, and the girls in the sewing class have made us feel more than welcome. Our driver is an amazing, humble and sweet-spirited man. He makes us feel so comfortable and really takes our well being seriously. We are blown away by the faith of the people here. Everything is so Christ centered and all they need is God. Material possessions are nothing. It is all about relationships.

At the center, the children are beginning to warm up to us. We spent our first day with the older girls in the sewing class. They took us in as one of their own and taught us how to sew. They are all such amazing girls. They sing and pray together at the end of each day, and it was so encouraging to be apart of that. The staff here at BCC loves the children so deeply. You can just see it in their faces. They are so committed to serving these children.

While our main purpose here is to love the children at BCC, we find ourselves wanting to know the people we pass in the slum everyday. They wave at us and we receive many "how are you's" from the children. The most shocking thing so far about the slum areas is not the amount of poverty – We have all seen media and heard stories about the poverty – It is the normality of it all that gets to us. This is everyday life for these people. There is nothing wrong with it in their eyes. The have their own way of life and community in these slums. It is hard to process and see how we can even help them because the simplicity of their culture is so beautiful.

We are finding out more and more that we are here just as much to serve and love the staff at BCC as the children. We can tell that us being here is an encouragement to them. Today, Melissa and I hung out with the two women who run the clinic; It gets very slow for them sometimes and it was good to encourage them and talk with them.

We pray and ask for your prayers that we all can be at peace and in tune with the Holy Spirit and see an opportunity to serve and love in everything He calls us to.

To sum up our experience so far, I would say that we have been truly humbled and are learning so much from Kenya. We have also had many fun times of driving in the crazy traffic/ditches and potholes and playing football and handball with the kids. The children have such personalities. I have already made two children cry out of terror because they have not seen many white people.

We have also met some amazing people where we are staying. You think a month is long, try 34 years of commitment to this continent. So many people have devoted their lives and sacrificed so much to minister to this place.

We look forward to the rest of the month and cannot believe that so much has happened so far.