I arrived in Kenya late on a Tuesday night. After only a few days of getting rested and adjusted, I start traveling. It was early on a Thursday morning we were off again. We began to travel across Kenya. As we travel, I began to see some of beautiful wildlife that this land has to offer. We traveled from Nairobi through the Rift Valley, through towns like Nakuru, the tea country of Kericho, stopping to eat fish on the banks of Lake Victorica (where some Cichlids come from) in Kisumu, all the way up to with in 30 mile of the border of Uganda in Busia, the back down to Kakamega for the pastors conference. It was a lot of traveling in one day. I felt sorry for Chris who did all of the driving and made another trip up to Busia. We dropped Noah off to start building a Chicken farm in Busia while we were doing the Pastors Conference. Well as often happens in that part of Kenya, the weather changed very quickly as we left the farm in Busia. It started pouring and keep in mind we were in a Toyota Noah, yeah that is a mini van. We slid up the muddy mountain road and got back to the tar mat. As we were headed back to Kakamega it started to get increasingly dark. Now we need to stop a minute for context reason.( In Kenya they have speed limits that are rarely enforced, but they also have installed unmarked speed bumps at towns, markets, and other random places. The random places are the ones you worry about.) Ok, back to the story. So as we are traveling these speed bumps are becoming increasingly more difficult for us to see. Next thing you know, it is dark. The only lights around are the ones from the automobiles. So there is this on coming truck with bright lights on...all the sudden we feel this huge BAM! and feel the impact as the van bounces. In short, we hit a unmarked speed bump going reasonably fast with a hole on the other side. The van survived with no broken parts as we rolled into the hotel for the night. End of Day 1. So the next day, we get up early and get the game plan together. We would start with introduction and music, then I would speak, tea time and mandazies (Kenya doughnuts), then Glen would teach until lunch, then I basically the same format until we stopped for the day. So we arrive at a house with a small fenced in yard. (Though to self....ok where is the building, chuch, place we are going to do this? Oh, the yard.....ok we will teach in the yard.) So we start the set up and Chris attempts to teach me some Swahili as people arrived. It was bad and my accent just made it worse. I had to stop. We laughed about it and moved on. As the program started worship was awesome. I understood about half of what they were saying, but it was apparent they were worshiping God and I did my best to keep up. (I miss that music so much) I spoke and did my best as I worked with a translator. Then I found out how good those Kenya doughnuts were. Then Glen began his series on leadership. As I was sitting there listening to Glen sitting right beside him. A chicken was walking around the yard. A very ugly chicken. It then decides it needs to walk directly between my legs under my chair and behind me on the other side. I did good and kept my cool, but to see the look on Chris' face was priceless. So the program continued as I taught on Examples of Godly leaders and Glen taught on the traits a Godly leader should have. It all went well, other than Glen getting almost hit by a car after we went to eat one night and getting run off the road by a mac truck on the way home. It was a very productive trip and I feel like we encouraged a lot of pastors.
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