
Pastor John K’ungu, a former street boy, shares a bible study with the street boys of Githurai. Nairobi has more than 100,000 street boys, most who constantly breath glue or solvent to stay high and curb their hunger pains. JTS is a weekly ministry of Calvary Chapel Githurai that gives them a meal, a place to nap, play and wash up. John founded and leads the ministry. He is also working toward planting a church in a neighboring town.

Ed teaches Shephard School for men in the church who desire to plant churches. From left, Godfrey Thuranira, Stephen Njoroge, and Jackson Keringot.

Christy shared scripture on having a teacher’s heart with some of the Children’s Ministry workers the first Sunday we were there.

Izzy buckled to peer pressure. She wanted to be able to tell her friends back home that she tried Pan. I hope tasting something akin to toilet bowl cleaner provided a lesson about peer pressure.

Izzy and Alaina and some of the neighborhood kids playing. Whenever we were at the church, the kids were playing.

This little dude is all boy. Moses is on the go. He’s blessed with a great Dad who has a heart for the Lord. If Christy is allowed to have favorites…

Baba Moses (the father of Moses) teaches CBS at an Eastleigh school. He has a real gifting. The kids were into it. When the girls and I did it the following week, we were a bit more ‘challenged.’ I met Baba Moses two years ago. It was a real blessing to see the Lord working through him.

Izzy comforts a baby at an Estleigh school/orphanage before Chronological Bible Storytelling. The girls helped teach the story of Esther. The night we left, several improvised explosive devise detonated in the primarily Muslim neighborhood, killing six and injuring dozens. The school was not affected.

Kids respond to Chronological Bible Storytelling in an Estleigh school/orphanage. The night we left, several improvised explosive devise detonated in the primarily Muslim neighborhood, killing six and injuring dozens. The school was not affected.

Jackson, a young Massai man, is attending Shepherd School at Calvary Chapel Githurai. Sent from Calvary Chapel Lakeside in Kisumu, Kenya, he wants to return home to Tanzania and plant a church among his people.

Ed and Pastor Stephen Njoroge up on the roof of the school building that is under construction. We were checking out a large crowd on the road that had gathered after a motorcycle-taxi driver was struck and killed.

Murigi, in purple, and men from the church, peel potatoes before the Sunday meal. It was a blessing to see the official transition service where Ed officially handed the reigns of the church to Pastor Murigi.

The last Sunday we were there, Ed delivered a transition sermon, where he officially handed the reigns of the church to a Kenyan pastor, Murigi Kariuki.

Alaina and I were digging the hippos during a boat ride on Lake Naivasha on our last day in Kenya. Christy and Izzy were quietly hyperventilating. This one seems to have a tractor beam on a pint-sized Italian snack.

I don’t even think she knows who Gilligan is. “Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship.”

Heavy rains upstream have flooded large areas surrounding Lake Naivasha, killing large groves of Acacia trees. The birds don’t seem to mind.