Sunday Night

It is Sunday night and we've completed four Vacation Bible School (VBS) session with one more tomorrow morning. Our audience is 75 children (first to sixth grade). We have some fun characters such as our emcee Daisy, her inquisitive Skeeter, and Cousin Clyde with his pet crocodile, and even a fussy Pharaoh who just didn't get it that he should have let the Israelites go (one plague after another).

We are having such a great time with these wonderful missionary children. They are blessing us daily as they are learn, play and sharing really amazing things about their lives. Some have lost parents, many are living lives with few or no friends in the villages where their parents are serving. Many of the parents have commented on how much fun their kids are having. And, tonight was a very special night. The kids put their sins in a bags that the leaders draped over a cross at the front of the room to symbolize how the light of Jesus can be blocked out by even little things we do like not following our parents direction. One our actors played the role of Jesus, walking up the theater aisle, removing the bags from the cross, and letting the light shine again. What a great visual for the kids....and us.

Tomorrow morning we are looking forward to our last VBS meeting with the kids and then we have a movie night with them tomorrow night.

We leave Kijabe Tuesday morning and head for Rick and Carrie Maples home in Kurungu. That will be a two day trip by truck over unpaved roadway so please pray for clear roads and for safety. We are going to spend time with a nomadic people group that has no written language. We are bringing a ton of baseball gear from the S.F. Giants that Rick and Carrie say we came play on their air field.

We hope to send another blog soon. We are taking a lot of pictures and will enjoy sharing them with you when we get home. Thank you again for being a part of our prayer team.

In Christ,

The Kenyan 2009 Mission Team