South Sudanese Children Parading in the Kakuma Refugee Camp
Over our years of living in Africa, we have witnessed many parades. Unlike the commercial floats and fancy cars that we are used to seeing in Canadian parades, here the community marches are usually simple and, more often than not, religious.
This past Sunday, our street was filled with hundreds of children waving palm branches on the way to worship at our local community church. Seeing families and groups beating handmade drums and waving threadbare flags is not an uncommon experience.
Good Friday is another special day in Kenya where congregations will march in song and prayer as they share with their neighbourhoods the joy of their faith. As we celebrate Good Friday with our family, we are reminded of the hope that beats throughout the Church today is a hope that is for all of the world.
Parades of children are one of the many things that we will treasure from our time of life and ministry in Africa. Earlier today we sent out of final official Canadian Baptist Ministries update letter to our partners in mission, where we reflect upon the gift of being a part of the work of CBM in Africa.
To read our final update letter, please use this link.
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