Day in the Park

This week we are back at Eastleigh where a lot of changes are happening. The school

will be closing down and reopening in March under the administration of the Kenyan Mennonites.

In the mean time, Aaron and I will continue with our classes that we will be running on our own until the end of February. Aaron has approached three guys in his class about being language helpers and a girl from his advanced class has offered to help me. Today, we helped our team mate A with driving some pastors from the ACC&S church to meetings. I was thrilled to see Kimani, a pastor that was in my small group from the CMin course in 2004.

On Saturday we enjoyed a visit to Amani Ya Juu, our new favorite place. "Amani" means peace in Swahili and in this secret garden refugees from Somalia, Sudan and other East African countries are taught skills from various Christian artisans that provide them with a stable income and a new future. Along with the craft areas, there is an old home renovated into a gift shop and a garden cafe. Tristan and Emma had a super time. Emma found her new bud, "Biker Steve", who she named herself. Biker Steve has hardly left Emma's side since he joined the family. You can find him in the photograph (and we bet he'll turn up in more). After our visit to Amani, we took a stroll in the Nairobi Aboretum -- a hundred year old park that contains trees from all over Africa. Tristan was excited to find "Tarzan vines", but we wouldn't let him swing from tree to tree. On Sunday, we worshiped once again at St. Julians and in the afternoon were invited to a birthday party for a little boy in Tristan's class. It was a wonderful weekend!