Our flights through Dallas, London and Nairobi were mostly uneventful. Everything was on time and there were no mechanical problems. The only issue we had was kind of bizarre. Doug Cochran, our physician on this trip was reclined and sleeping in his seat on the London to Nairobi flight, when he was woken by the passenger sitting right behind him. Apparently the woman was perturbed at his reclining and decided to encourage Doug to move his seat up. She did it, however, by hitting him very hard on the top of his head and then kicking the seat back with such force that he hit his face on the seat in front of him! Needless to say, he woke up.
After advising the flight attendant, he expected them to alert the air marshal and have the woman restrained, or something of that nature. Instead, the flight attendant said to the woman, " Now, that' not nice. We don't hit people." Apparently there are no air marshals on that flight. Doug was reseated and the woman made no further problem. I've never had that happen before.
At Kamulu, where Francis and Mauryn Mbuvi live, we enjoyed a short night of rest and then went to church with them this morning. After church, Francis brought a young man to us who is at Made In The Streets, his mission to the street children of the Nairobi slums. This boy has a large benign tumor on his shoulder. When they asked Doug if he could do anything, he said, "Sure, et's take it out. So we are delaying our drive to Nakuru a couple of hours while he operates. Even as I am writing this, Dr. Cochran is removing the tumor in the upper bedroom of the Mbuvis house. I am always amazed at how God will use His people to do His good works, wherever they are as long as they are willing.
Later we will drive on to Nakuru to stay at the Kunste before we start clinic (officially) at Londiani tomorrow. I'll write more later.
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