[photo journal] everyday life in kenya
For more from this mission trip to Kenya and Uganda, check out [the africa diaries]. You can also check out the complete set of everyday life in Kenya on Flickr. Amazon.com Widgets
For more from this mission trip to Kenya and Uganda, check out [the africa diaries]. You can also check out the complete set of everyday life in Kenya on Flickr. Amazon.com Widgets
She walked up to me as I was setting up for my morning session, shook my hand, and simply stated, “I am Alice.” We laughed about that for a moment, but I never realized that this was about to be one of the most powerful moments of this trip for [...]
I was finally an accomplished missionary! Well, at least in my mind I was. After all, I had just finished my first full sessions with one of the churches in Kenya, and now I was off to another. I knew that this next group that we were about to work with [...]
Finally! Today is my day to teach! Well, at least for half of it… Day two of our lesson plan calls for two important subjects. First up was the financial session. In this session we covered such basic, yet critically important, topics like keeping your business and personal money separate, and [...]
Here we go… This is what we came for! Our first day of teaching has arrived! And one of the first things that I learned today was that schedules (time) in Africa are very different than they are back in the States. I think that our start time was supposed [...]
This was the big day that I had been waiting for! Today our plan was to meet with the people at the offices of Thika Community Development Trust (TCDT). They are the Five Talents partner that runs the local microfinance program. After that, we were going to go out and meet some [...]
My first morning in Africa! I could not wait to look out my window to finally see what Africa looked like! But I had no idea how quickly this trip would start impacting me. The place that we stayed that first night was actually a really nice guest house that was run [...]