It was finally time to go and practice the things we had learned in 3 months. Our outreach included 7 weeks of travelling along the east coast of Kenya. With that time we worked with 7 different churches driving to our new locations every Monday and staying there for a week. Sometimes we visited several different villages in the same area. The things we had to do varied from places and some weeks were good and some not so good. Over all I really enjoyed the outreach and am really thankful for God giving me the opportunity to experience something like that.
There would be so much to write for each week, but as I am doing it now with not lot of time I decided to do a quick summary for each week and just add some cool pictures.
Sombo was our first destination. Located near to the border of Somalia it had a great influence of Islam and 95% of population was Muslims. The place we stayed was a mission base founded by Americans about 10 years ago. Our job there was to help the local missionaries to build a fence around the school garden to keep away the warthogs and goats. We couldn’t preached the gospel because of their faith, but could talk about Jesus at school which was the only (Christian) school in the village. The kids were friendly and we had a good time. The place itself was desert. It was literally 100 degrees outside during the day. The only time to be outside was before 6am and after 5pm, otherwise you just melted. Sand and thorns on every corner and some crocodiles in the nearby river Tana were the things that will describe Sombo the best.
Mikameni was our home for the second week. About 6 hours away from Sombo and really different from the nature. Part of a little village surrounded with many different villages with fertile soil and green plants all over. It had the most mango trees I have ever seen and we had at least 2 juicy mangos ever day. We worked with John Kisamwa and the churches from different villages. That week we did lot of door-to-door, open air and some children’s ministry. It was great time, the people loved us and we loved the people. Our living conditions were also amazing. We had bunk beds, sitting toilets and electricity until 9.30pm.
Kakuyuni was the third week of our outreach. It was the week I liked the least with so many reasons. First of all the place we slept was a really old house. It was full of rats, mosquitos and walls that were falling down. There was a lausy toilet and no shower. We had to shower outside behind the house when it was dark. Luckily it was warm outside. The pastor of the church came to see us only once or twice and was never there. His fill-in was rude and demanding and we really worked out butts off that week. We did door-to-door twice a day, in the morning and after lunch. Then from 4pm we had open-air until 6 or 7, children’s ministry every day and on Friday night we had overnight at the church. We skipped it after 1am as we couldn’t keep our eyes open. Luckily we got half day off on Saturday and went to Malindi for a little retreat. After that it was almost Monday and time to go to our new location.
These were the three first weeks of our outreach, one better than the other lol.
“ For where two or three come together in my name there am I with them.” (Matthew 18:20)
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