Saturday, June 18

I can't believe this trip is coming to a close.  Our group in Machakos has been finishing up everything today.  Tomorrow we will be going to churches for various services once again and then going on a short hike to a really pretty and unusual riverbed, the Mwania river.  Tomorrow night we are handing out the rest of the clothes and supplies we brought to the Scott students. 

This morning, our devotion from Dr. Voelker was about being ambassadors for Christ.  Obviously, we are ambassadors of God's kingdom no matter where we are, whether in Africa or Dallas at TCA.  It was a good reminder of the values and attributes we should strive to portray to those around us if we are going to represent our God well.

Today, we finished up on our work project of preparing the land for the preschool building.  It may not sound very glamorous or exciting that we have been basically shoveling dirt all week but it was something they needed here by the Scott campus and will have a big impact on the area.  The kids have done a great job working without complaining, some even DRAGGING their tired, sick selves down there even when they didn't feel good.  We had to FORCE some of them to go back and rest when they were sick!  We are so proud of all of them.

This morning we also held our last session of VBS.  I am SO proud of this VBS team...they have been fabulous all week long.  We sang a bunch of songs, watched a movie called "The Jesus Movie" (a cartoon) and then passed out a couple of kids bibles and candy as prizes.  This afternoon, Rachel, Gunnar, Michelle, and Madison came and played games with all the VBS kids just to have some fun.

I believe we also finished the mural at the Orphanage today.  That group still isn't back but I know they were almost done when they went over there earlier.  The rest of the group stayed here, finished up the work project and had another soccer game with some of the locals. 

Tonight we will eat dinner and have our meeting and then relax a little.  We are looking forward to meeting up with the rest of the team Monday for the safari.

I have had a couple more texts from Brian and all is well but no details.  He doesn't seem to be getting my texts asking him for MORE details.  :)  But, I do know that tomorrow will be very special for them as they will be holding their FIRST church service up on top of the hill where Mama Ruth's tribe lives in the new building our team helped put up.  Very exciting and I am hoping they come back with tons of photos and video.

That's all for now!

In Christ,

Jenni Millet for the group