Friday Oct. 5th, 2012

Wow is all I can say about are travels today!
We left early so we would have time to see the Kibera Slum, which was the 3rd slum this week and by far the worst.  None of us can think of words to describe the smells and sights we saw today!!
All we can say is no human or animal should live in those conditions.  Even the few dogs we saw seemed hopeless!
We went by bus, but the bus could not go down the street / path to the Kibera WEEP center, so all 10 of us got out and walked with the ladies of the WEEP center who came to meet our bus.  We walked about a half mile down a dirt rocky path with garbage every where, chickens eating the garbage, people selling the eggs from the chickens, childern running barefooted through all of this plus raw sewage running in ditch along side of the road, constant herd of people going up and down the path along beside us, needing to find a spot to stand while cars drove by on the single lane, people cooking over charcoal & wood fires, kids playing with anythiny thing they can find to make a toy out of , and people selling anything they could to make a little money!  We met the ladies that walk up to an hour to get to this WEEP center with their young children each day!  This center has a pre-school room, sewing room (the size of my bathroom with one light bulb hanging down), a meeting room that they divide into two rooms (it is the size of my bedroom), and a room they call a kitchen where they make one healthy meal a day for these ladies.  It is the only bright area in this very dark place.  Each of these ladies sing and praise God with such joy for being alive!  It really makes you look at the things we think are problems in the America in a whole new light.
After we walked back to the bus we all had to take the time it took for us to drive to the Ngong WEEP center to get our tears out and faces dried.
We were met again with singing from the ladies at Ngong.  We gathered in a room about the same size as my kitchen with our 10 team members and 15 ladies from Ngong to hear two of our team explain how to have quiet time with God and how to start a Bible study / small group.  They then served us lunch of rice, stew, warm cabbage dish,  and tortilla type of bread, which all was very tasty.  We then walked up to a community center about a half a block where ladies from the slum who all have HIV / AIDS gather each Friday as a support group.  They get a healthy lunch and have speakers come to give them encouragement & health information.  We were the encouragement team!  Two or our team members spoke on being a Godly mother and trusting God.  One ladie excepted Christ!  We then gave each of the ladies a gift bag with "Jesus Calling", devotional little note pad & pen, sunglasses, & a bookmark.  The ladies were so excited and immediatly put on the sun glasses!  We did get a group picture which will be on our team blog page later.
All in all a very emotional day!