DAY 5;12/08/10 ( Rakwaru Church)

God is @work in this place.

Morning: Our mornings started as usual, everyone came our to gather in the motel quadrangle @08:00, the driver and Pastor Huxley were already around to pick us up for Body where we have our breakfast everyday so far and from where we planed to lunch our outreach to Rakwaru town, which is a nearby town of about 30min from Bodi on a rough dust road.(1hr from Sondu, where we stay at the gas station motel)

Queued-Up to see the Doctor.

I went out to inform the cosmetics sales guy that the telephone recharge cards I got from him were not functional and not useful to connect online-he tried to solve the problem calling head office (Zane telecoms office) I ended up buying 5000 ksh (€50) cards for the PC, so we may connect and update our blogs and check mails. We all reflected on just how costly it is to communicate in these poor countries, I spent about €2.50 just to upload one photo the other night and to get from one village to another is a dificult task that cost well over €4 on a motorbike where and when you could find one.

On our way to Bodi we picked up the optician, a gentle and very neat mid aged man with an air of professionalism that touched me.

Spiritual Healing.

We had our breakfast of bread and pineapples, peanut butter and raspberry jam, Nescafe and Soya Tangawizi (ginger) drink for Pati and some other non coffee drinkers,

Our Medical Team@Work.

 Jagoda and Agneska  with the rest of the medical team got their tools together and we left for Rakwaru town.

We were welcome by a group of little kids singling welcome songs for us and we were moved inwardly as they sang. We joined them and matched to the fellowship hall ( the hall was more of sticks stuck to the ground and a roof of empty bags sewn together, but it was a beautiful sight and we all had fun there dancing Makosa worship dance and shaking our bodies to the glory of God.


Noon: There were a good crowd out there and after I shared from Eph.4 on The Fulness of Christ and called them to the altar to be prayed for; our counselors took over to do the grass root job, each taking note of needs that our team will have to deliberate upon at night so as to develop an action plan to address the diverse needs that normally come up after counseling. Some of the issues raised from these counseling sessions are too personal for this blog.

Our medical team had to deal with large numbers of people, poor Agnieska and her team, there is no way to turn back these people and there is just no way not to stop before they brake down.

Jagoda worked with the optician to match the glasses and my o my they deed a great job there. Our little Dalton was the very first to have his diagnoses of allergy which irritated his eyes and he got express attention and drugs were prescribed for him at once.

The Dentist had to deal with all kinds of medical complaints from, sore wounds and skin diseases to arthritis to heart conditions. We got a nurse yesterday but all she could do was inform us on the nature of the conditions so we could do more extensive investigations through a specialist @Kisumu.
We are already working to get surgeons and other specialist to sign on for next year's Mission.

The temperature was quite hot today and this made it tiresome to do about anything especially we you have to trek.

@Rakwaru Secondary School.

We went to the village Secondary school that is funded by the African Inland Church and immediately we all could appreciate the difference between this school and the one we visited yesterday which is funded by the state.

Presentation of Gifts.

The school though small was neat and well organized and the head teacher looked immaculate with pure white set of teeth that shone on his head like a beacon of light.
 He said that we are welcome to start our foundation in his school as long as it is to teach children about God and not turn them away from the church that is funding the school. We told him we are not there to proselyte but to educate and guide children in the ways of Christ using the Bible as our handbook.

Rakwaru School Visit

We fed the masses with meat, cassava (yuca) and rice, our people were delighted and wolved down all that was set before them (it dawned on me that we are all sinking into the Hakuna Super-Matata MO (modus operandi) luckily no one was ordering Escudella Catalana, or fillet of sole.

The farewells are always amazing and we enjoy the whole ceremony of gifts and today they gifted us with wonderful gifts and Cesar got a basket for “his wife” apart from the chief's hat that he received. I told him later that this could be the sign that God will lead him to a wife (funny though)

NIGHT: We came back to our motel at about 19:35 (but it was like almost midnight) and agreed to meet in the conference room at 20:00.

The meeting went well and we went over all the issues of the days and each person gave reports from their counseling.

My wife Joan told us of an HIV Sero positive (AIDS) girl that we had met today, she is so young and had twins strapped to her-There was this hopeless look on her face that crushed my heart,

We told her that we will do something for her but we do not know exactly what yet but we set out to resolve the mater and get her the help she needs.

I cant just continue...this is so sad.

We talked of our vision to acquire some land near Kisumu to build a center there and so as to reach out to the whole region and beyond to Uganda, Tanzania etc.

with the Map spread out it looked like we were actually planning military type invasion, it was beautiful though we were all drained at this time.

I had to go out at about 22:35 to find bottled water for Cesar and the rest of the team who at this time had retired but some still wanted to have a drink of water.