Catching up....

Ok, I'm trying again to get caught up! I apologize for the way the layout has been with the pictures etc.! I'm still fumbling thru! Does anyone have a "Dummies Guide for Blogging?" :) Ok, I'm not sure how the pictures will come up, but I will explain. The white tent is one of the churches we have been attending. It is one of 5 churches that has been started from the one church we attended 13 years ago - Nairobi Chapel. We have visited 2 of them so far. The singing group is "Jars of Clay". They came to Nairobi about a month ago and did the worship for us at church. They also gave 2 concerts in the city that weekend. Then a few pictures of the airplanes Kurt is flying - and lastly the addition to our family - "Twix".

Game Park Weekend

Well, we finally took the time to go out with some friends to one of the closet game reserves and tented camps, called Sweet Waters. It was about a 2 1/2 hour drive from Nairobi. We left early Sat morning, stopped at Mt. Kenya National Park, then ate at a place called Tree Trout Restaurant. That was so interesting! It literally is a restaurant in a big tree - kind of like the Swiss Family Robinson! They raise trout there, so they had all the pools there that we could see the different stages. Then we arrived at the game park/camp in early evening. THis camp is centered around a watering hole in the middle of the game reserve. Our tents (that were covered with thatch roofs) surrounded the one side of the watering hole, so you could see the animals coming and going. Our tents had electric, running water and our own bathrooms! Then there was a Lodge type place where their is a dining hall, lounge area and store etc. Really nice for the middle of no where! :) In the morning we went on a game drive (we could go in our own car) saw lions, warthogs, gazelles, zebra, giraffe, rhino, hippo etc. Then came back had lunch and then swam. It was pretty cool to have the pool right there where you could still watch the animals come and go to the watering hole. It nice and peaceful there too. It was a nice get away!

We also finally got a "real" pet! We learned of the KPCA (like the SPCA in the US) so we went there and Micah picked out a kitten. He named it "Twix" as it has the white with different shades of gray. He is very tame and extremely playful! He goes everywhere with Micah around the house.

Kurt has been busy flying and has one more trip of pictures he'd like to get on here yet. Sunday he leaves for a week with a group of doctors to do cleft palate surgeries - so more to come on that! :)

Mal wal kon radio tower

A couple of weeks ago I was able to fly out to a small village in western Sudan called Mal wal kon. We had on board about 30 sections of radio tower and all of the equipment for a mission who is setting up the tower for Christian broadcasts into the Darfur area of Sudan. The idea is to broadcast on a single frequency and sell small very inexpensive receivers that will only get that one frequency. In other words when you turn the radio on you just have one radio station that it'll receive. What a great way to focus the gospel I thought! People in villages like this are thirsty for news and things outside of their environment and will listen. Especially when it's in their own language. There will also be news broadcasts included in each day's message.

Lots of kids came out to see the airplane and watch us unload. Women were out across from the airstrip at the borehole getting water for the evening.

Since it was late in the day we stayed at the village for the night. It was a very simple compound made of mud houses and thatched roofs. The missionary ladies had "ordered out" from a local restaurant. Well, that is they had to supply them with bowls and containers for the ful (beans and lentils) which we dipped bread in. There was also a little meat. It tasted very good, then I had an open air shower (under the stars) which felt absolutely wonderful before going to bed.

This is pretty typical of many of our trips. Sometimes we spend overnights, but many times we return home for the night. Many more pictures and stories to come.