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Meditations and Encouragement
Kisii Pastors
One of the greatest blessings of our mission to Kisii, Kenya, was the opportunity to teach and encourage pastors who had gathered with an incredible hunger to learn and grow in their faith. I was deeply moved by the number of pastors who came and by their eagerness to...
Sunday – Travel Day
While Pastor Steve was bringing the Word and praising God with the congregation in Kisii, the rest of us piled into our two safari vehicles for the seven-hour trip to Kisii. We traveled west from Nairobi seeing many Masai men herding their cows, sheep, and goats along...
Masimba UMC
Pastor Steve left for Kisii on Saturday morning and on Sunday morning, preached the message at Masimba UMC, one of the Methodist churches in Kisii. The worship service lasted for about four hours with much joyful singing and dancing praising God.
Saturday Part 2
Giraffe Center After lunch we visited the Giraffe Centre. The Giraffe Centre was created by the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife, to protect the Rothschild Giraffe, a subspecies of the giraffe found only in the grasslands of East Africa. While there we fed the...
Saturday Part 1
On Saturday morning, the team visited the National Museum of Kenya. The National Museum of Kenya provided us a detailed overview of Kenya. At the entrance was an art piece called The Gourds of Kenya, representing the artwork and different uses of gourds among the 42...
Methodist Resort
We met Bradley UMC’s Africa House of Study student, Silas Murithi this afternoon at the Methodist Resort in Nairobi and spent the afternoon talking with him. …and Bob got his hot chocolate.
Mission Team Arrival
From our Kenya Mission Team on July 17, 2026: We and our luggage made it to Nairobi with just a few hiccups at 2:30 am Kenyan time. God is good. We meet our student, Silas, this afternoon.
Mission Kenya Team
Mission Kenya Team - July 2026 Most of our team after a delightful Kenyan meal at Beatrice and Saneta's home.
As You Go Forward…
“As a disciple of Jesus, you too are sent out with this very same power through the Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead and was poured out on his early followers. And you too are charged with the responsibility to live under God’s authority as you go forward...
Our Knowing
We must move our knowing to the bodily, cellular, participative, and thus unitive level. We must keep eating and drinking the Mystery, until one day it dawns on us, in an undefended moment, “My God, I really am what I eat! I also am the Body of Christ” (John 6:53-58)....
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