November 6 Sunday worship and other activities

I got up early and helped the Salem and Trinity teams bring their footlockers and other gear up from the basement of Rosa Mystica and out into the parking lot to their waiting vans.  The others realized that I only have a team of 3, so they also graciously helped me get our clinic supplies staged and ready to go to be picked up.  We had breakfast around 7am and we said our goodbyes to old and new found friends that we had made on Saturday during the safari, lunch, worship and dinner together.

Catherine took the team to church in Kawangware, the church where we got our start with this project and where we built the water well.  We were going to worship at the church in Waithaka that the Kawangware church is planting, but the roof had not been put on the building yet.  Worship was wonderful, as usual, with songs from many different choirs and a sermon from our friend, Immanuel, the evangelist at the church.  Another dear friend, Thomas, the caretaker at the church, graciously translated the sermon into English for us.  It was based on the Beatitudes and some scripture from Revelation describing who the saints are.  Also, as usual, it was such a Spirit filled worship that the three hour service just flew by.  After church, we fellowshipped with old and new friends alike and determined who was going to be able to help us with the clinic during the week.  We said our goodbyes and Catherine drove us to a welcome lunch.

We ate a Java House in the Junction Mall near where we are staying.  Gloria, our friend, missionary and nurse, joined us after she had attended church elsewhere.  Ralph and I recommended the fish and chips, since he and I have made it our Sunday afternoon tradition.  Everyone ordered the same as well.  I just had to be different and ordered my French fries spicy, which gave our waitress a good laugh.  Everyone was pleased with the fish and chips, even Catherine who usually decreases the chicken population of Kenya by one every time we go to the Java House.

Following lunch, we drove to the Ministry of Health clinic where we will be conducting our clinic.  It was locked, but we could see through the windows that it was plenty spacious and we tentatively planned where each station of the clinic would be for best traffic flow and for other considerations.  We also figured out where to put tents up outside for evangelism and for our “waiting room.”  We then drove over to the nearby Waikatha church and met the man who had donated the land for the building and some of the elders of the church.

Catherine brought us back to Rosa Mystica, where we all decided to take an hour and a half off until 6pm before going back to the Junction to change money and to buy our snacks and clinic supplies for the week. 

As I am able, I will post pictures from our adventures.  Time is usually short and Internet access is not always the best, so editing and posting pictures has taken a back seat so far.  Dora has posted a few pictures to my Facebook timeline, I am Dave DeVore there, so if you do Facebook, feel free to look there.