It's 2am and I can't sleep.  We went down at around 10, so I don' t know why I am up.  Maybe since my body on got four hours of sleep the past few nights it thinks I am done sleeping.

This computer here is very slow, they can only have dial-up since high-speed is like $600 a month.  It's funny though, I put my wrong password in just a few minutes ago to do this and a second later it told me. 

We found out today that most Kenyans live on around $1.10 a day, that made me sick when I went and exchanged my $400 at the bank today, that is what most people make in a year.  I threw it out like nothing.  Change Please.

A few of us have been playing mental badminton since we left Chicago.  We toss out ideas and throw them back at each other.  No one wins though.  I love that, but I also find that while we sit around and toss these ideas back and forth there are people all around the world dying without ever hearing the Gospel.  I believe, at least for my own life, there needs to be more action and less theological arguing.

 

I am either running on total adrenaline at this point or I will not get jet lag on this trip.  I hope it is the latter but I feel it is the former.  I just hope I don't crash in a few days.

We just got off an intense prayer and share time with about half of our group.  It was great.  I find that in times such as these, with being in a different culture, experiencing fear of the unknown, etc., I am drawn to seek God more.  I wish it were like that all the time.

I am once again, as I knew would happen, feel the extraordinary tug to come and minister here full time.  The funny thing, as I was telling a few people today, is that I have no desire to go anyplace else to minister other than here.  It's quite weird.  Of all the nations in the world, I want to go to Kenya and have great contacts in that nations, and more coming in the next two weeks.  May I just be obedient to the Lord!

Tomorrow is the big day, we press through to Kitale to fulfill a two-year goal of reuniting with Japheth and his family.  He was so excited in the airport that I will be meeting his family just as he has met mine and we will minister together for the work of the Lord.  May we unite in the spreading of the Gospel and the discipling of the nations.

Just a few thoughts while here in Kenya:

It is 8:30 am here, for you folks in the central time zone that is 12:30am.  We are beginning to suffer jet lag but that is why we are taking the day to rest and take in the culture. 

We just spoke with the lady who runs HEART (Health Education for Africa Resource Team) and she just lost her husband to cancer.  Something she said really stuck out to me.  "It comes down to whether we really believe what we teach or not.  We have taught for years the soveriegnty of God and that fact that this earth is not our home, now it comes down to whether we believe it or not, and we do."  That my friends in faith.

This is a beautiful country, and I pray God's blessings over it.

I haven't blogged in forever.  I'd lie and tell you I didn't have time but I'm really just lazy. 

If you are checking this you probably know that I am leaving for Kenya in the morning.  Just one thoughtss:

There is some anxiety on the part of Lisa and I.  It's almost like we won't see each other again.  I have to put it in perspective though.  Three years ago I hurt my knee pretty bad skiing in Colorado the first night I was there.  I had to have someone feel sorry for me so I called my mom and told her what happened and she said just to be thankful that I can walk and ski in the first place.  Perspective.  Japheth, the gentleman we are going to see, left his family for two years to come to the states to gain a Christian education leaving 8 kids behind.  I will be gone for two weeks.  Perspective. 

Hopefully I'll be back soon!