Sharing The Mission of Kenya

Greetings from the beautiful and somewhat dusty city of Nairobi, Kenya. My hope is that this blog over the next 10 days or so will give you a glimpse of what we are blessed and privileged to be a part of.  

Dave, Justin, Ray, Martin, Isaiah, Jannekay, Adeli,
Hannah Christina

We arrived Thursday night Kenya time which is 11 hours ahead of Seattle after a long but thankfully uneventful 18 hours of plane time.  We were met by the whole Guya household, extended family and some of the ministry team guys who you will get to know throughout the week.

Due to time constraints let me give you a summary and a few pictures with more details to follow later.  

Friday was a catch up day and the start of the video production training for the ministry team that helps the Guyas.  These guys are great and really took to Justin Englet who is traveling with me.  He is training them in pre-production, production and post-production with the intent of giving them the equipment, tools and training to shoot music videos for other Kenyan Artists as a revenue generator to be able to expand the ministry. They will be shooting video of all the event this week as their first project is putting together a short documentary of all the amazing ministry work that the Guyas accomplish.

Edu and Jimmy Negotiating the underwear purchase

Saturday was more training, buying all the underwear, soap, toilet paper and toothbrush/toothpaste that will go into the care packages for the 16-21 year old boys in prison who we will minister to on Monday.  Thanks for all your generous donations....we obviously were able to expand the gift to more than just underwear.  They literally would not have any of this while in prison without being gifted it from the outside.  

Care package contents for the young men at Kimiti Prison

Saturday night was the first night of the Crusade in Rueben Slum. Not as well attended as last year but powerful nonetheless and I think tonight will be a much larger night for crowds. We had in excess of 50 people make a decision for Jesus last night as well as scores of people wanting prayer for physical healing and release from bondage in their lives.  It was a sweet time with some very sweet people who are in very difficult and heart wrenching circumstances.  We are pointing them to get involved with "Church on the Rock" in the slum.  We are actually heading there in just a few minutes to preach at for the morning service.  Tonight we will have the last night of the crusade.

Justin overseeing Antonio shooting the Crusade

Monday is Kamiti prison with the young men and more video training and who knows what else. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers. Justin and I are both struggling with the whole sleep adjustment so that would be a point of prayer if you don't mind.

Look forward to sharing with you some of my passions in life this week.  More later.
Dave