During my recent trip to Kenya I happened to be outside of Nairobi when the explosion occurred in the slums that killed more than 100 people. The people were resident in a slum called Sinai. Many of them lived on or in close proximity to a gasoline pipe line that had ruptured. With gasoline flowing, many took [...]
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Wednesday was a super day! This past year we renovated the CMF Mission Services Center. We moved a few walls, replaced some of the art work and totally repainted the office. Rather than one or two colors, we now have half a dozen colors in the various offices and cubicles. One idea our design team [...] This week we are offering training on CHE and are pleased that twenty-two people have come for the training, one from as far away as Colorado. CHE is a kind of Christian version of ABCD, “Asset Based Community Development.” (Actually, maybe I should have said that the other way around.) As an organization, CMF partners [...] This past week-end Robyn and I drove to Kentucky Christian University for the graduation of Allison Thwing. She is the daughter of my cousin Patty, so I think this makes Allison my first cousin once removed or something like that. It was a great family gathering with my aunt Louise and uncle Jerry, cousin LuAnn [...] What a great day for birding! We drove from Nairobi down through the Rift Valley, going south to Lake Magadi, one of the lowest points in inland Kenya. When we lived in Loita you could see Lake Magadi from the Enguruman escarpment, but I had never been there. The lake is well known in Kenya [...] Picture youself in a desert. There are a few thorn trees, and a few date palm trees. Other than that, desolate. The inhabitants of this desert in northern Kenya are the Turkana people, a nomadic people who have herds of goats and a few camels. They do not stray far from their traditional culture. They [...] When we were on our first furlough, back in 1983-84, Robyn attended some college classes at Fullerton Junior College. One of the classes was in poetry. She wrote the following poem, one of my favorites. She was encouraged to enter the poem in a contest for a local newspaper, and she won! I think she [...] I preached on “Good News to the Poor” recently and heard that a study group was using the sermon and discussing poverty and what to do about the poor. The verse about “always having the poor with you” came up in the conversation as it often does, which led me to do a little studying. The [...] The following quotes come from an article in Time magazine, Feb. 14, 2011. The article is written by Nancy Gibbs and is titled “The Best Investment” (page 64). “In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school. Nearly half are married by the time they are 18; 1 in 7 [...] I’ve asked my friend LeRoy Lawson to share the following comments: “It’s a miracle!” If you had been with me, you would have wondered. Several of us Americans were standing in the second story room of a toilet building in the midst of Mathare Valley, one of Nairobi’s—and the world’s—largest slums. The plaque on the [...] |
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