Thursday, September 18, 2008

Africa Mission Trip Update #4

Another letter from the 410 folks, hot off the presses!

Brett
the OATBUP

Dear Friends and Family of the Watermarke Service Team,

We got a team update today from our Kenyan staff and the team is doing great! Here is an update and some details about what they have been doing the last couple of days from their Kenya team leader Mercy.

After breakfast at the Panorama hotel on Monday, the team headed to Kwambekenya and went to Kiambariki primary school in Kwambekenya where they shared Bible stories and played with the nursery school kids. After lunch they visited the medical clinic and planted trees with the community.

Wednesday morning it started raining, despite less than ideal weather, the team went ahead and planted more trees with the community and helped in the medical clinic to put up the rafters for setting up the roof of the clinic.

Today (Thursday) the team went and visited the homes of several of the people in the community. This is an honor for community members to host the team in their homes, and the team was able to experience what everyday life is like for our brothers and sisters that live in Kwambekenya. After the home visits the team facilitated another small group meeting with a group of ladies. It was such a wonderful moment for everybody as the ladies really bonded well and encouraged one another. In the evening they held a team debrief after their last day in the community.

Tomorrow, (Friday) they will head to Lake Nakuru for a Safari and to have some time to debrief about their trip. The team has been great and bonded very well with the community. It has been a blessing and encouragement to the people of Kwambekenya to have them come and serve and share life together.

In His grace,

Jennifer Ward
Service Trip Coordinator
jennifer@410bridge.org

1 comment:

Unknown said...

We are so excited to be getting news from Kenya. Our daughter, Angie, who is on the team is an elementary school teacher, so we can just picture her doing the activities you have described among the wonderful people of Kwambekenya . Thank you so much for the updates. Angie has been to Lion Country Safari in West Palm Beach, FL and to Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa, but now she is blessed to go on a real safari. God is good.