Meetings and Projects

After the Grace House, we drive back to Kisii for a night at the Dados.  Wednesday we met some of our directors there and we drove on to the Training Institute to prepare for the our meetings and the arrival of John DeFore’s group.  I wanted to make sure that Thomas was ready for us, and they were.  Everything looked really good.

 

Thursday we held meetings with our Orphanage and Feeding Station directors.  This group is really the heart and soul of this ministry.  We discussed boring but important stuff about standardizing procedures, both financial and administrative.  It’s important for us to build on our successes by making sure all of our orphans are receiving the right level of care and that lessons learned in one place are passed on to other places as well.  To further this I decided to hire a Kenyan named Steven Owino to be a traveling teacher/inspector for me.  He will be my eyes and ears in Kenya when I am not here.  Steven is a former WBS worker, trained at Nairobi Great Commission School, and he has a real heart for the church and the orphans they serve.  I’m really excited by what his addition will mean for us.

 

In the afternoon we turned our attention to education issues.  We are seeking ways to both control costs in secondary education and improve the quality of instruction that our kids receive.  I was really pleased with the great ideas that came out of this meeting.  Our board at home will have a lot to think about in the coming months.

 

The driving rain on the metal roof ended our meeting for us, since it’s impossible to talk in that situation.  So we spent some time in prayer and stillness, waiting for the rain to stop and listening to the Spirit talk to our hearts.

 

Yesterday I pent the day with Steven and Kennedy Chandi, driving back to Awendo to pick up the brick making machine that we had ordered.  This machine will allow us to make cement stabilized bricks with local soil at each of the sites where we will do construction.  They will also be able to make bricks to sell after construction is complete.  Today I hope to play with the machine some and teach someone else how to use it.

 

So that catches you up with my travels.  Tomorrow I’ll be at our feeding station at Border and the Muhoroni Orphanage and Kerich Feeding Station will be my last stops before heading back to Nairobi to depart on Thursday.  I’ll post again when I can.