Wednesday - we're starting to roll!

We saw a few more people today, around 325 total.  More importantly, Pastor James, Pastor Kevin and our evangelists from Nuru (the Lutheran Hour Ministries team in Kenya) had 32 people come to Christ or express an interest in the church or in counseling with the pastor.  It was a very good day by that standard.  We took a shortcut through the slum and knocked about 15 or 20 minutes off of our commute, which can be stop and go in heavy traffic on the main road around the periphery of the slum.  That was the upside.  The price you have to pay is one intersection with no traffic control that we have to cross while everybody and their brother is coming from every direction, wanting to turn, etc.  It is very safe, the conductors from the matatas (vans) jump out and do their best to make sure that things keep moving, since it is in their best interest to keep moving, picking up more passengers and arriving at their destinations on time.  We will get some video and pictures of this mayhem posted when possible.  I actually tried to upload 3 photos last night and it failed after 25 minutes.  It will probably not be possible to get many, if any, pictures linked to the blog until after our return.  The good news is that we have power plugs on our flights now, so during my waking time on the trip home I can be sorting through, selecting and organizing the first batch of pictures to be posted shortly after we get back home.

We got back to our lodge, showered and had short naps before dinner.  It was served buffet style, with beef, fish, rice, potatoes, vegetables and a fruit salad for dessert that included watermelon, pineapple and bananas.  It all tasted good, and we all ate our fill, since we didn’t get any lunch again, but subsisted on snacks and beef jerky.  This is an off night where we will app catchup on our rest for the final push Thursday and Friday.

Tomorrow, a television crew is supposed to come to see us in action at the clinic.  It is World Vision Day and the Kenya National Health system wants to highlight what we are doing in partnership with them and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya to help eradicate preventable blindness in the near future.  We may get our 15 minutes of fame in Nairobi!  Pretty cool, huh?

That’s all for now, time to call it a night.  Blessings everybody!