What I was Made For

Two weeks afer arriving in Kenya (January 09), I was fulfilled. We had the oppostunity while at Africa Based Orientation (ABO), in Machakos, Kenya, to participate in ministry at area churches and schools with the theological college's students (we were living & learning during orientation school at the college). Our second Sunday there we visited Machakos Academy with another family and also a single missionary. I got the chance to teach the 1st-3rd graders' Sunday school class. I had a blast! It was fun, and SO rewarding!! This is what God designed me for! You see, I've wanted to teach children since I was a child. I've felt God calling me to teach African children since I was in high school. It was a powerful experience to make a Bible story come alive for these children in a way they might not have experienced before.

We are now searching for a church home in Nairobi (and would greatly appreciate your prayers in this endeavor!), and I can't wait 'til we find one so I can involved in teaching again!

I hope to someday volunteer at a national school here, but don't know how or when God will provide that ministry since he's called me to use these gifts to home school our own three children. I'm so grateful for the tastes of that fulfillment I felt in Machakos, and that -for a teacher- I'm ina land of boundless opportunity!

Pole Sana!

which means, "so sorry" in Swahili, for having written NOTHING here since arriving! Not that I've had a lack of potential material in our 3 1/2 months in Kenya....just a lack of energy trying to keep up with life and the family here and have enouigh left over for creative thinking at the end of th day!!! So I will now finally write some posts I've had waiting in the wings of my brain...and promise to do a better job keeping up here now that we're settled at home here in Nairobi!