We're Here!

Jambo! Thank you so much for your encouraging comments :) We just got internet for the first time so that's why the delay. We got to Kitale (where the orphanage is) Sunday night after a 6 hour celebration in Eldoret for the 20 year anniversary of the ministry that the owners (Richard and Helen) are a part of. I LOVE it here!!! Bridget it teaching social studies at the school and I am teaching 2 P.E. classes a day, its so fun and we are learning A LOT. I have many fun dances to bring back to the states so get ready... After school we get to hang out with the kids, help with homework, do Bible study, play volleyball, and yesterday we went on a run with some of them! Unfortunately we are mizungos (white people) so we couldn't keep up.

The school is in the middle of Kipsango, one of the worst slums in Kenya, and it is heartbreaking to drive through it everyday. There are people digging in trash, lying on the ground too weak to move, TONS of children just sitting waving to our car... I am so thankful to be here with this ministry however because they offer so much hope to these people. I have seen a kind of joy here that I have not witnessed in the United States, they have nothing else but God and they are so thankful to him- I am learning so much from them. We keep very busy and are worn out at the end of the day, but that's why we're here. We try to attend Swahili class at the school to learn some, we're getting there slowly.

Know that we are safe and feel so blessed to get to be here. The people here keep thanking us for coming here to teach and help the children but I don't think they understand how much they are teaching and blessing us, we feel privileged to be here. Thank you all for your prayers, I will try to write again soon!