Apologies for the delay in Blogging. The reason for the delay is twofold. Firstly we have travelled to Nairobi, and secondly we had to prepare for Sunday. Sunday was our big performance. Michael had been asked to take the service at the local secondary school, Moi Girls. . The school is named after Moi the second Kenyan president. Kanyetta who was the first president got his face on the money and all the large important buildings such as the airport are na...

Friday was our roadtrip. 2hrs 30min to Kisumu on the shore of Lake Victoria. My first observation is that Kenyan traffic is insane. Really insane. Indicators are used for anything other than indicating. Headlights are voluntary in the dark, and mirrors are for cowards. Add to this potholes, collapsing roads, mud and the total lack of street lighting it is a miracle I am here to report the experience. In Kusumu we went to a hotel near Hippo point and booked...

Thursday was a bit of an odd day. We started off by going to the IcFEM HQ for devotions. They have been going though Philippians for the last few weeks with a guest speaker from the UK. Thursday was the last one so I was particularly keen to be there. The plan after this was to visit the much delayed drilling. Unfortunately the much delayed drilling was delayed again, so I was at a bit of a loose end. Claire was back at the house so I spent time chatting to...

Yesterday I (Claire) had the chance to go to the neighbouring community, Nlongo, with a lady called Sarah from IcFEM. She is in the Elderly department, and they visit elderly people and take some shopping, clean or provide maintainence help for their houses and give some encouragement from the Bible. The team from IcFEM try to visit their link communities in this way at least once a month. The challenge is that people don't always have enough to provide for ...

I should probably talk about the mud in Kimilili. The mud is incredible. It is very red and sticky and it covers everything. It is used in construction to build houses, to make bricks and to make roads. If used properly it can do all these things brilliantly. If it is not properly used for example the road is badly constructed then huge potholes from and the road becomes impassable in the wet. The mud is also incredibly fertile. You could plant a stick h...