Day Three...It Is ALL About God!

Today has been ALL about God...the way the Sabbath should be!  I wish we as Americans worshiped the Lord the way the Kenyan's do...all day long!  We started today at a local coffee house so I could have a little something "American" for a change.  I had a ham and mushroom omelet, toast, sausage, and coffee...Kenyan coffee def beats Starbucks!  Then we headed to church around 11 for service.  They took us in to meet the children and for some of them, I was the first white person they had ever seen.  They just stared at me with big eyes but later came up to me wanting to touch my skin and hair and get their picture made with me...I def stand out over here!  Then we went into the main church and because the power was off, they had to run everything off a generator, which doesn't require a lot of power, just a couple lights, speakers, keyboard and microphones.  No big screens or light displays here!  The praise and worship music was very good, the whole church joins in dancing and singing to the Lord!  They sang some songs in English but they are older so I hope to teach them some new stuff like Chris Tomlin's Our God while I am here...I let Pastor George listen to it on my iPod and he loved it  but I have to find someone to sing it for me since God didn't bless me with the gift of singing!  After the singing, Pastor Richard preached on Lazarus out of John 11 and everyone seemed to relate to the message that we can be "asleep" but God can wake us up!  It was a very powerful message followed by a very powerful alter call and the Holy Spirit was all over the place.  There were people falling out in the Spirit everywhere, not like anything I have seen at home but the Spirit was so powerful you could feel His presence all around.  This lasted for a couple of hours and then we went down stairs and ate lunch (the chicken that I saw the youth group plucking and preparing the night before).  It was very good being that fresh as everything here is organic with no chemicals.  Plus they don't process or freeze anything.  So instead of me loosing weight on this trip, I think I have gained.  After church we split up to do the seminars, I was with the youth and Pastor Richard and Penny held a marriage seminar.  There is another missionary here from Missouri named Mary (she is originally from Kenya but moved to the US to be a nurse) so she and I gave the youth a perspective of how things are different between the youth in the US and Kenya.  They had A LOT of questions!  And I think we talked about Facebook for about 30 mins...it has just became popular over here but already they are having issues with people (usually older men) creating fake accounts to lure young girls into meeting them so I talked about how they could use it as a witnessing tool and how to always be cautious when using the Internet especially social websites because there are dangerous people out there.  We also talked about guarding our eyes and ears so that we filter what we take in because what goes in, is going to come out in words and actions.  The youth here are already so firmly rooted in the Lord and they live for Him, it's amazing and I am so proud of them!  They are so respectful and you can feel the passion they have in their hearts to do what is right by God (if only I could bottle that passion up and bring it back home with me)!  After the seminar's we stopped by some friends house for a baptism celebration.  We ate a "bite" and this time I got to try roasted or BBQ goat and it was very good!  Also had tea which tea is hot milk and water, then you drop the tea bag in, add 2 spoon fulls of sugar and drink!  I am getting pretty good at making my own tea, coffee and hot chocolate at night!  And yes I am bringing some of each one home...by the time I leave I will be addicted to them since we drink them every day.

It is now 11:15pm here so time for bed.  Not sure what the plans are for tomorrow but I am sure it will be a great day here in Kenya!  I talked to my family tonight and that was very hard for me since I miss them all so much...especially hearing Gray in the background saying "Hey".  But I am here doing the Lord's work and sometimes He calls us into uncomfortable situations but in the end, He will bless you and change you and that makes it all worth the sacrifice.

Praise the Lord! / Bwana Asifiwe

Leslie / Chiro (my new Kenyan name)   

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