At Scott Theological In Machkos, Kenya

The view at Scott Theological.
Amie playing with some of the kids during break time.

I wrote this post yesterday night while there was no internet...

It’s 8:30 pm at night and I am sitting outside under a small light outside the Scott Chapel building. Mount Ilke looms on the side of the Scott campus and small lights dot the hills indicating little homes for the Kenyans here. The dogs are barking loudly on the hills and the night critters are creaking not unlike what I am used to in Saskatchewan. In some ways this moment feels like a writers dream. Every sense is heightened to the new noises and any moving lights. It is like the feeling I could get before my big college volleyball matches. Anyway, enough with the sentiments.

We are here at Machkos now. It was a splendid drive up here. (I think the British folk in our group may be wearing on me a bit!) I was on the wrong side of the bus on the drive up but some people were able to see giraffes on the drive up from Nairobi. It was amazing to see the building taking place all along the way here. Everywhere there is road construction, buildings going up, men at work. And not just a few men there are hundreds and hundreds of Kenyans at work building Kenya. Coming out of Nairobi the rugged beauty of the place cannot help but take your breath away or maybe that is all the dust you are breathing in as you drive! There is rocks, massive outcrops of escarpment type hills, beautiful trees, and dry grass. All over the landscape is people. People people people they would be sitting in the middle of fields by themselves on their cell phones. They would be standing in groups of 20’s on the side of the street. There would be shops dotting the roadside with perfectly painted coke sellers and everything else you could want.

Scott is a beautiful campus. Today on a walk Amie and I met a fellow Canadian couple who teach here. They have been teaching and living in Africa for many years. Prior to just recently moving here they were at Kijabe at Moffat Bible College. This wonderful couple were so kind to us and Andrew the professor offered to pass onto me some of the key insights he has come to in regards to teaching Kenyans. He has some things written out and some articles that he is preparing to give me electronically! What a blessing to run into this couple today. We are going to stop by later and chat more with them.

The kids are still working on adjusting to all the changes we have been going through. Ian is tired but having trouble getting in a regular routine of eating and napping. Which is probably harder on us as parents than on him. Elijah today enjoyed himself but at times seemed a bit disoriented by his surroundings, which is abnormal for him. Grace seems to be doing alright but still needs to do a bit of adjusting to the new place. We are sleeping in dormitories. So we are in separate rooms Elijah and Grace in one room. Amie, Ian, and myself in the other. Please just pray for our settling in here and continual adjustment to Africa. Unfortunately, this will be posted late because the internet is down at Scott right now. Blessings for now!