Londiani and Chesyliot

Londiani and Chesyliot

 

This morning we were up early to get to Londiani from Kericho before they started church.  We need not have rushed, as usual, everything was running a bit late.  We walked around Londiani Orphanage to see what was new here.  The clinic looks really good. Eunice is a great nurse and has won the trust of the community.  The clinic brings in enough money to pay Eunice’s salary and return some profit to the orphanage.

 

They have recently added a new feature here that I had never seen before in person.  It’s called a biogas digester, and it’s pretty cool.  The concept is simple, animal dung is decomposed in a large pvc bag and it produces methane gas which is captured and piped into the kitchen to power a burner.  The company that is selling them in this area selected the orphanage to get one for free, in order to be a demonstrator for the community.  I cant wait to see how well it works at our place.

 

Church went smoothly, a typical Kenyan service, though a bit rushed for our sake.  We had to see Chesyliot feeding station later in the day so David was doing all he could to make the service short.  I preached a sermon that was originally Tod Brown’s on forgiveness.  It’s really hard to gauge reactions from Kenyan churches, but I thought it went well.  Later, David told me that they had been having some conflict in the church recently and some of the members had left.  Many of hem came back to hear the Mzungu preach this week and the sermon was just what was needed.  God goes before us.

 

We shared a meal in David’s house and then went over to Chesyliot feeding station.  There they were just finishing a four-couple wedding during the worship service.  I’d never seen that before, but is does seem like a cool way to make sure people come to your wedding and to save costs, so maybe I will recommend it to my kids when the time comes. ;)  Matt is a photographer at heart, so he couldn’t resist taking wedding pictures for the happy couples.  We will mail them some prints and then they can say that they had an American photographer for their wedding.

 

After we had spent some time there, we set out for Nakuru.  Tomorrow we will visit Kikitemo on our way back to Nairobi.