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THE LAST WORD: Our team is now at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam for our 4 ½ hour layover. It is so wonderful to be headed home to the people we love and “our own beds”. I know that “foxes have holes and birds have their nests, but theirs no place […]
We are now on the grounds of the Shikusa Boys Detention Center. Since I was last here there has been a major turnover in the boys and in the detention center staff. We arrived to find that they were having their annual meeting, which includes the detention center board, a […]
The Village of Shimanyiro SWIMMING IN MATTRESSES: First of all let me say thank you to all the people who emailed me to say you would buy mattresses for the boys at the Shikusa Boys Detention Center. Several hours after my email we receive enough money to buy 90 more […]
Today we made our way to the village of Shinyalu over 8 miles of dirt roads. This is rural Kenya at its best! On the way we passed a lot of little farms and people walking to Kakamega with baskets of bananas or avocadoes on their heads. Most of the […]
We woke up this morning to find that Dr. Phil had been sick all night. We had to proceed without him. Camp is not the same when Phil is missing. He is our “go to” guy on all mysterious medical matters. But praise the Lord, Phil was back in camp […]
This morning we worshipped with the Kakamega Town Church. Their worship is something to remember. The entire team danced in the conga line that moved through the chairs during worship. We simply had a great time. The people of this church are truly wonderful; full of love and passion for […]
It is now midnight and we finally have our team tucked into their beds at the Sheyuwe Hotel in Kakamega Kenya. We had a long hard trip from Nairobi to Kakamega. I had no idea that they had ripped up 15 miles of the road from Kisumu to Kakamega and, […]
Hello Again Dear Friends from the Eastern edge of Nairobi. Day two of our Kayole camp has gone very well. Dr Phil was quite pleased that very few of the patients here seem to have the major diseases that so often kill people: Cholera and Typhoid. Kayole is a slum […]
I am sitting the sanctuary of the Kayole PEFA Church watching the people move up through line to get their vitals taken and then to see a doctor. At present we have number of free services in the camp: Doctors Exams, Eye Exams (with free reading glasses), Voluntary AIDS, Malaria, […]
News From Our Medical Camp I was telling the team yesterday that one day in Kenya is like a week. The reason for this is “sensory overload”. As you drive through the country everything that you see is unusual and out of the ordinary. Some things are just beyond belief. […]