Saturday night. At the SALON with Christine and Maureen. Yep you read that right. Apparently Christine goes every week! My hair is cleaner than its been in two weeks and it cost me less than $2! Happy Halloween everyone :)

Nick (the Cathedral sexton) goes to Homa Bay Primary School to talk with the 8th graders every Friday morning. I went with him today and played "Glory in the Highest" after his talk and the kids were singing along with me after the first time of hearing the chorus! It was so precious :)

Welcome to the kitchen!! Today was a rest day for me and it was also raining pretty hard most of the day so Christine stayed home from work. She announced early this morning she had slaughtered a chicken for dinner... and sure enough, there was a headless chicken in a bowl in the back. Then it was a naked headless chicken (shown in the picture). Then it was a roasted headless naked chicken. Then it was cut into pieces and made into chicken stew. Caribuni!! (Welcome!!)

I thought we had lost her for good... but she came back tonight!! The African angels brought Kennedy home!

I just got back from visiting Ogande Secondary School. The kids are so great! I talked with them about being a container and distributor of the Kingdom of God and challenged them to ask Him what HIS dreams are for their lives. Afterward I did a Q&A time and they had a ton of questions-- for example... "Are there homeless people in the U.S.?", "What is the primary economic activity?", "What does it mean to be saved?", "Are you married?" :)

I visited Magare Girls School today and, to my surprise, ended up talking with a small group of student leaders who are peer counselors. They had received some training in counseling skills so we discussed ways to counsel students dealing with crisis pregnancies and relationship problems. Not so different from American high school kids huh? I was surprised, however, to hear "had sex because she needed money for school fees" as one of the drivers for teen pregnancy. That's one you don't hear every day.

And I couldn't leave out the kids-- aren't they adorable?! They sat through a 3.5 hour church service, and I was fidgeting more than they were!

I got out of the car this morning at Ogongo and a lamb, aka "Lunch" was being skinned...

I don't think videos work on here but I thought I'd give it a try anyway... this is a short capture from communion this morning at Ogongo.

James and Christine have been able to grow extra maize and millet and store it at their house. A lot of people just outside of Homa Bay are going hungry right now because the drought is causing the crops to fail. I have been feeling extra grateful that I have enough to eat every day! The picture shows the maize that Christine was cleaning and treating so the insects don't get into it-- and it was also a little snack opportunity for the chickens that hang out in their back yard :)

I was in town at Christine's shop today and one of the "mama's" came in with a bucket-- I thought it was rice or something but she took the cover off and it was full of freshly caught tilapia! Christine bought two of them, and the mama came over later that afternoon and scaled/filleted them. It was like Whole Foods Kenya :) And you can guess what we had for dinner!

Evelyn took me down to the fish market earlier this morning and now we are hanging out in Christine's clothing shop in town :)

I made it to Homa Bay tonight! After three days of traveling I was so glad to arrive at James and Christine's house. The girls in the picture are Maureen and Evelyn, their daughters. The adventure begins :)