YYYYYY-M-C-A!

We're now in Niarobi. Staying at the YMCA. Unfortunately they've fallen a few stars short of their 4 star goal. O well. It's cheap. Thanks for the pic how-to Chad. I left my stuff up in the room, but maybe I give it one more try later. We have a couple of days here and then we fly out at around midnight on Friday. Jason tried to bump our flight up a day but it cost too much. He and Nathan are anxious to get back to their wives. I wish I could stay longer. Don't worry GMA I'll be back on Monday.
The day at the river was great. The 3 hour drive one way on Kenyan roads I could have done without though. In case you didn't know the roads here are horrible. In downtown they're OK but once you head into the residential areas or out of town it's a dirty bumpy ride. We took some tubes with us to the river and shot the rapids. There were quite a few local kids hanging aroud so I showed one of them some capoeira. Then we did some flips in the water. No crocs in this river...just naked old ladies.
I left my heart in Kitale, so I'm going to have to go back and get it some day...soon I hope. Everywhere you turn in Africa there is a need. It can be a very difficult place to be. Everybody wants something from the mzungu (white man) cause the mzungu has money. Pray for Kenya. Pray for Africa. I've never had my heart broken so many times in such a short while. I didn't even see the worst of what is happening on this continent.
We'll bum aroud Nairobi today. Do some shopping and hang out. Then home. I think we'll be flying into LAX Saturday afternoon. Bye.

Kickin' it in Kitale

Still hangin round Kitale. We went to Bungoma to check out the GCM property and hang out with the family that lives there. We been doing a lot of talking and planning. We've got a good plan for how we'll develop the property and hope to start building in June. There's a couple more people Jason needs to connect with and some errands to run but other than that it seems we'll have some leisure time. Tomorrow we're planning on going to some river to hang out. We've met so many wonderful people here. God has just totally hooked us up. I've got a lot of pics but haven't been able to get any of them to post so y'all will just have to wait. We've been quite safe here. We just have to check on conditions before we travel anywhere to make sure we steer clear of any danger. Thanks again for your prayers.

Here in Kitale...

Many exciting things have been happening the last couple of days. Moday night things got real bad in Kisumu, the city we were going to fly into in Kenya, so we had to change some plans. Thankfully we've got some awesome folks here in Africa helping us out. We ended up taking a little 4 seater from Nairobi to Kitale cause it is much safer here. We've hooked up with this really cool guy Ryan who's with Love Mercy. He's been here for about a year. He's got some big dreams and they're coming along nicely. So far here in Kitale we've had the chance to check out Ryan's organic fertilizer company down in the slums. Hang out with some street kids. We even got to be a part of taking a couple of kids off the street today. Ryan has 7 acres that he's been developing into a little sustainable community. So many of the things that Ryan has been working on are dreams that I've had. There's just so many people from all over with there own gifts working together with one goal. Thank you sooooo much for your prayers. It seems that we've been running into opposition everywhere we turn but God always makes a way. Your prayers are making a way for us. I think we're going to go check out a boys home right now, head to Bungoma tomorrow, and possibly to the Tricana after that. I'm not sure exactly where or when, but I'm coming back, to stay. I love you all. Blessings

This internet connection is frustratingly slow. I've only got a couple minutes so...Yesterday was amazing. We got to visit a couple of chidren's homes. We also go to meet up with Pastor Mbasa who took out the Masai land where he has a church. We even got to take a tour of some Masai houses. It was incredible. We fly out tomorrow and I'm a little bummed about that but our aventure is just begining.

Well, I'm sitting at Melissa and Jolyn's house in Moshi, Tanzania right now. Two girls from Cali that are living here working with GCM. Moshi is at the base of Kilamanjaro and the view of the mountain is amazing today. It's still all like a dream. I thought once I got here it would all kinda hit me...but its still sureal. It took a looooong time to get here. With the traveling, layovers and delays it took about 48 hours. While we were waiting in for our plane to Tanzania I got to know this lady from Tokyo that works with World Vision. Her name is Mami. She had a pretty bad cold so I prayed for her and God totally healed her. It was awesome. We're running on very little sleep but we're all feelin great. We're staying at a nice little hostel next to the compound we came to check out. We had a great breakfast at a Lutheran hostal accross the street from where we're staying. The weather is beautiful. It's like low to mid 80's and sunny. The wildlife is amazing. The people are very nice. We'll be here for about 3 days while we handle our business. What we are going to encounter in Bungoma sounds like it won't be quite as nice as things are here. I'll see if I can track down a phone somewhere so I can give you a call Mom and Dad. I love you all. My sinus infection is better but I think my allergies are acting up which isn't helping things much. Thank you all for your prayers. God bless.

Greetings from Kenya...

We landed in Nairobi about 9am Sun, which would be 10pm Sat at home. We went to pick up our tickets to Tanzania and the guy said they are no good. Said we have to have a printed ticket or something. Jason was handling the mess while Nathan and I were getting to know some of the locals. Anyway we ended up having to pay for 3 more tickets which was a real bummer. Hopefully we'll be able to get a refund on the others. We're just killing some more time here in the Airport till out flight at 5pm. I've developed a horrible sinus infection during the trip so pray for that please. It's left my head spinnin a little. Forgot my usb in my bag so no pictures yet. Hopefully when we get to our next destination I can get a couple pics up.

Waiting...

Hey. So we've made it to London so far. Jason's got Wi-Fi here. I think its like 5pm. Nothing exciting happening so far. The plane ride was about 10 hours and wasn't too horrible. My back was killin me though. Well that's it. I could try and stretch this out with some embelished stories and witty banter but I'm gonna go walk around instead. Here's a couple of pics. Nevermind...I tried to upload something and I guess it didn't work. I not sure what the problem is because it's all in Dutch or something. Maybe next time.