Seeing Friends

Visiting with our Canadian Baptist Ministries

team mates Bruno and Kathleen Soucey

We continue to push through the jetlag this week as we get our internal clocks back on Africa time. Tristan and Emma return to school tomorrow morning and we pray that everything goes well. We are so glad that we were able to return a week before they had to start (Even Ava -- our little alarm clock -- is having a hard time getting out of bed in the morning).

As we settle in and get online with ministries, it has been wonderful to be able to reconnect with friends and colleagues. On Monday evening, we had the joy of hosting Diane and Caleb Bannister on their way through the city. We will have a chance to drive out towards their home next week as we travel with a short term mission visiting Guardians of Hope projects with the Africa Brotherhood Church. The Bannisters continue to facilitate STMs in Kenya as well as supporting various development initiatives through The Sharing Way.

Earlier this evening, we were blessed to share some time with our friends Bruno and Kathleen before they caught their flight back to Kigali, Rwanda, where they serve in leadership in The Sharing Way programs with the AEBR. The Soucey's have been in Kenya over the past week with the Canadian Food Grains Bank training for our church partners here. We thank God not only for the ministry that they are leading in Rwanda, but for the encouragement and wisdom that they have shared with us and our partners in Kenya.

We haven't seen all of our CBM Kenya team mates yet, but we have had a great meeting with our new Africa team leader Colin and Karen Godwin. Please remember the Godwins in prayer as they seek long term housing here in Nairobi and for their children as they settle into school at Rosslyn Academy this week.

Ava and Emma having a sleep over

with Emma's friend Diana