Sunday at Kericho Feeding Station

When I was planning this trip, I intentionally had us out at our locations on every possible Sunday.  I wanted to do this in order to be able to worship with the churches here that do all the real work of serving the orphans.  Today we were at Kericho, one of our favorite places.  Last year when I brought Morgan and my mom, they were so kind to both of them.  They really treated them like honored guests.  My mom especially had a great time there.

We arrived at the scheduled start time for worship, 9:30, which means that we were an hour early for most Kenyans, and two hours early for some.  We decided to make our recordings of the children’s choir first and get that done before too many people came who could make extraneous noises.  That went really well.  All of the choirs so far have been good, but it seems to me they are a little better than usual because we told them in advance about the recording.

Church got started about 10:30 and went until about 12:30.  They asked me to preach, which I was ready for, and I did well.  By “well” I mean that I did not disappoint them by only preaching 25 minutes.  I did a cool 50 minute version of a sermon that Tod Brown initially preached at GCR in 25 minutes.  The story of Moses really resonates with Kenyans, and it’s particularly easy to tie it in to the orphans work.  How, you ask?  You’ll have to hear it to know!

After church we met all the local church leaders, and all the guests that heard a mzungu would be preaching and showed up.  That took a while.  Then they served the feeding station kids and our group a great lunch.  The church members and guests ate after.  We had a great time playing and talking with the kids, especially Francis Mbuvi, who loves to clown around with little ones.  You can see pictures from the day on Facebook HERE. (You should be able to see this album even if you are not a Facebook member.)

After lunch, a church member offered to show us another cave nearby.  Last year, we went to a beautiful waterfall and cave that is near here, and this one was just as cool.  We had to climb down to this one, instead of up like last year.  I was worried about my wounded foot, but it was fine.  After some pictures and exploring the cave, we climbed back up and headed back here to the Kericho Tea Hotel for one more night.

Tomorrow we will be at Muhoroni Orphanage for a while before moving on to the DeFore Vocational Training Center.  We will base there for four days while we hold meetings, and visit the Dirubi and Lee McGraw Orphanages.