Highs and Lows

Enjoying a Sunday afternoon with Somali friends at Rosslyn Academy.

Erica and Holly with a group of young women from our Somali English Program last Tuesday at the Amani Ya Juu sewing program.

We have had quite a week of ups and downs as we've struggled with Kenyan Immigration over a lost document in their cavernous archives. But the Lord is good, and we were blessed with a gracious contact in the Immigration department who has helped us in locating the file and pulling things together in a matter of days... praise the Lord!

Along with the hard times, we have shared in some wonderful experiences this week with our Somali students and their families. Erica and Holly, a volunteer working with us this summer in Eastleigh, have organized a series of Intensive English camps with some of our students. One of the groups spent a morning at the Amani Ya Juu ministry that trains refugee women in acquiring profitable skills.

We also had a joyful time with a family of one of our students, who lives with his parents and ten siblings in Eastleigh. We packed into our van and went for a picnic at Rosslyn Academy. Many of the younger children had never seen a playground before, let alone run in the grass. It was such a thrill to push them on the swings and balance them on a teeter totter while listening to their screams of delight. As we drove them home, they said that it was a day they would all write about in their dairies.

We continue to pray for Mohamed's family as they live in limbo, praying for reconciliation in Somalia: As his father told us, "Where there is no peace, there is no life!" We pray for the children of the thousands of refugees families trapped in places like Eastleigh.

Tristan and Abdiraman hunt for snakes
along the red banks of Rosslyn Academy.