The Grace House

Sunday morning marked the end of my visit to Ndhiwa.  Alfayo and I loaded up and drove the 45 minutes to Nayongo Feeding Station, soon to be The Grace House Orphanage.  We arriced when church had already started.  I found that the Ndhiwa youth choir had come and so had a few church members from Ototo (Manning).  That made for a pretty full house, and some great singing.  They started with the preaching, which was me.  I adapted Tod Brown's sermon from last week on Moses for them because I thought it really made a lot of sense for them.  If you want to see Tod deliver it, check out the GCR website at www.gcrcc.org.  If you want to see me deliver it, you are out of luck, I was the only one with a camera, and I kept it in my pocket.

After worship, we toured the site.  It's under construction, about half way finished.  In six weeks or so they will be done.  The dorms are complete, all that remains is the dining hall, a new kitchen, new latrines, office, clinic and manager's house.  The work looks really good.  They are a little hampered by the roads that lead here, they are only passable in the dry season.  We crossed a very low, concete bridge that completely floods during the rains.  When it's wet, you can drive as close as 1km and then you are afoot.  Here are some pics of the site.

Nayango

Later, we had lunch at Joseph's house.  He is the man who donated the land for the orphanage and lives just beside it.  He stays there all the time and helps care for the kids and some aged widows in the area.  Likely he will be the manager there, once construction is complete.

Soon it was time for mee to bid farewell to Alfayo and his kids from Ndhiwa.  My new guide for a few days in Stephen Owino, a WBS worker from this area.  We helped me get back to Kisii and the Dados where we will refresh and prepare to travel to Uriri Orphanage tomorrow.  Be blessed.