Elephants and Griaffes

Just wanted to say that this video shows how amazing this animals are!

THE ROAD SO FAR...

After one month in Kenya a lot of things have changed and I’ve learned a lot. It’s incredible how time goes by, I still remember my first day here in Nairobi.

The first week here after learning a little bit about the city, the culture and language they put us to work all the week in different departments of the ministry. The departments are the following:

• Social Work
• CHE - Community Health Evangelism
• BDS - Business Development Services
• Spiritual Development
• Education

All of them are amazing, everyone here works really hard and make a huge impact in the community. Everyday we all go to the main center call “Pangani Center” and they have 9 more centers with schools for kids in the slums and 2 clinics. Everyone here is working in different departments and in different centers.

I’m working in the BDS department, my job this summer is to go to the different groups that they have and gather information to create profiles for the future web they are going to create for the 600 hundred clien

ts they have. It is a very tiring job because some of them don’t speak english or speak a little bit so it’s difficult to ask some of the questions we need. On the other hand is great to see how all this groups are formed by amazing business people who are trying to improve their lifestyle. Is incredible to see that everyone in the groups tries to repay the loans and save money into their saving accounts.

Also this department trains them to develop not only in the financial way but also in the spiritual area, develop team work, importance of family and administration of money.

I got the chance to preach the other day at the BDS training, and I talk about Jesus walking on water. I told them that no matter how bad we are drowning in problems God is always going to be there to help us, the only thing we have to do is stop doubting.

Everyone here in Kenya so far has been super friendly, as I go to the groups to fill the forms they always give me food and tea. Also when they see you are leaning the language they want to teach you more and more and it’s a great opportunity to meet more people.

I have to be honest, Nairobi reminds me a lot of Mexico. The public transportation here is crazy, I always thought mexicans were crazy drivers but i think here they are insane. Food is good, a lot of corn, meat rice and beans. Between my favorite food so far I think is goat and chapati (like flour tortilla but 100 times better).

So far I have 2 favorite things that I’ve done so far. The first one is I got the chance to ride on a taxi motorcycle in the slums, it was great experience going around people, cars, holes and even animals.

And the second one is that we got the chance to go to one of the schools called Joska but this one is special because is boarding school. The kids here are awesome, it doesn’t mean in the other ones they are not, but in Joska is just amazing. The is school is in the middle of no where and they have all these field to play and learn. We played with them soccer (futbol) and it was amazing!

We also stayed there for church and it was great because the children participate all the time they sign, act, dance and worship in such a wonderful way, is just great to be around the kids.

Blessing to everyone,

MOI (Philippians 2:1-5)