Joto Sana (Very Hot!)

Tristan and Emma with kids at the Gambala Baptist Church in IFO refugee camp. According to our Somali friends, meaning of IFO is a "bright place". Gambala is certainly a source of "hope and light" in the barren and sun scorched landscape of IFO.
Manase (one of our teachers at the Dadaab Primary School), Kerry Jividen, Mary, Melanie McKee, and Erica with children at the Gambala Baptist Church

mmmmuffins! Erica and Halima with Erica's yummy breakfast muffins at the TB clinic in Garissa.

Out for an evening walk, we enjoyed a wonderful visit with our friend Bisharo at her Dadaab shop with our friends Melanie McKee and Kerry Jividen.

One of the many TB patients recieving care at the Garissa TB Manyatta. (Photograph taken and used with permission)

This past weekend, we traveled back to NEP to connect with several of the ministry projects in both Garissa and Dadaab. Erica and I are co-leading the 2008 PRAXIS group (coming to Kenya in May) with Malcolm Card. Praxis, is a group of graduate students from several Canadian seminaries that will be paired with Christian counterparts here in Kenya for a three week course and practicum on Intergral Mission. Their time in Kenya will include an introduction to Somali ministry with us in Eastleigh and in NEP. We are looking forward to being able to introduce them to two of the Garissa programs: the Garissa TB Clinic and Ibnu Kalduun Early Childhood Education Program (we'll feature a short introduction to both of these ministries in upcoming posts).

Aaron, Tristan, Ron, Mary, Emma, Erica, Josephat and his son Mwangi