First: one of my awesome comrades from Ethiopia has put up some pictures from the trip here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pcdenio/EthiopiaTripPictures2
I just finished by 3 teaching day in Nairobi. It is a lot more work than the last stop; I am doing about 2-4 hours a day. It is pretty tiring work. Lots of questions about all sorts of things. That is nice, because it makes it a lot of fun. But, it is also pretty rough because I am doing a lot of mental work to keep up with all the topics flying around.
We are doing a basic overview of Christian apologetics (Dr. Geisler's 12 points, if you are familar). They are really interested. Many of the people in the sessions have never had any philosophy at all, and so they are incredibley interested in just learning the basics. I am having a really good time teaching this class.
We have about 30-40 students a day. A lot of people trickle in as the class progresses. Africa Time is in full effect here; this means that if we say we start at 1, people start showing up around 1:30, and by 2 we are up to full numbers. That can be a bit frustrating, but what can you do?
Calvary Chapel Nairobi is a pretty sweet church. They have been in their current location for about 2 years, and and the Bible college has been going for about 1.5 years. Their first students will graduate next spring. The church is made up of about 100 adults (or so) and about 200 children. Sometimes they have even more kids show up. It is really a neat thing to see. They do services in English and Swahili. This works out well because those are the two national languages of Kenya. Everyone here speaks exellent English. Most of the people my age are completely fluent. The fun part is, their accents are African but much of their pronunciation is British.
More to say, but I have to go get dinner, and this is long enough already!
Pictures are more interesting than words. Click on the huts!
5 comments:
Raymond, I am glad to hear things are off and running and that things in Nairobi are organized! God's best to you.
For you Raymond followers, I put some pictures of Raymond in an album that you can find by going to:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pcdenio/EthiopiaPicturesRaymond
There are some of him teaching and a few others as well.
Peter
Ray,
Sounds like things are going great, albeit exhausting! Thanks for all your updates, it's a real encouragement to me to hear all that is going on! Blessings!
Donald
(SES)
Raymond,
Karibu Kenya!I am so grateful to God you made it there safely. Been praying for you. Honestly your road trip was amazing, and only you could have made it. Warrior!
I thank God for the work you are doing. Okay I must have told you about "African time"?? Tell you what - Kenyans do better than some other places...One hour late is pretty decent :)
Enjoy Nairobi and those wonderful kinsmen of mine. I hope they let you get out and be a tourist. At minimum please visit the Animal Orphanage, the Giraffe Park, Bomas of Kenya & The National Museum.
Bwana Asifiwe!
Cathy
Hey Raymond,
I know you're busy teaching Bible classes and riding in unregistered trucks around the African landscape, but I am meming you and I hope you'll find time to participate because I know you'd have some intriguing answers that a lot of people would love to read. When you have a few minutes, check out the whole meming thing on the latest post of my blog. We're still praying for you.
Aimee
Cool pictures Ray. I wish I could have climbed that mountain with you...
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