We started Wednesday with a MPPC group devotional. Patti shared part of her favorite Psalm - #43 "Be still, and know that I am GOD." Tim continued with a personal story rooted in running on the West Coast and the Swahili motto Mambu Badu (the best is yet to come) and Pastor Bullard's benediction that concludes with seeing the face of Christ in everyone you meet. This was our way of contributing to the impressive series of devotionals & prayers of our hosts.
Our Empower 2 Lead program discussions became very detailed today. In the morning, we built out the structure of the DayStar University (DU) faculty support, and the process of selecting a graduating student to run an E2L project. Serah Nzomo, the student that MPPC is sponsoring through a scholarship this year, also stopped by our meeting room to pay us a visit today. She is majoring in Community Development and seems to be an excellent candidate for E2L if she were to apply. It was wonderful speaking with her and we got this great group picture with her as well.
This afternoon, budgeting with numbers was roughed out on a white board & on an Excel spreadsheet on faculty member Mary Mogute's laptop. Because crunching numbers that represent a 4-year time horizon is not Mary's favorite thing, I traded my iPad for Mary's laptop and did some Excel magic (and she immediately took pictures of Tim at the whiteboard).
We worked through extensive discussion at both the general category and specific details levels, and produced the funding level requirement.
This afternoon, budgeting with numbers was roughed out on a white board & on an Excel spreadsheet on faculty member Mary Mogute's laptop. Because crunching numbers that represent a 4-year time horizon is not Mary's favorite thing, I traded my iPad for Mary's laptop and did some Excel magic (and she immediately took pictures of Tim at the whiteboard).
We worked through extensive discussion at both the general category and specific details levels, and produced the funding level requirement.
During lunch, I walked to the library to compose email messages to finalize arrangements for our team's activities Saturday at Kipeto. Discussions with the librarians yielded their keen need & desire to acquire many e-readers. Although they accept donated models of lesser capacity, their strong preference is for using Kindles. Paper textbooks have become very expensive, versus borrowing or renting electronic versions.
We returned to DayStar's River Valley Road campus this evening to pick up a DayStar graduate student named Mary Gathoni. She graciously invited our party of 6 to her house for dinner. Mary is photogenic and very articulate. DayStar US features her in a video of student interviews. Her very generous and gracious family served a veritible Kenyan feast - the guests outnumbered by the hosts in a slum dwelling room the size of the Fellowship Hall's men's bathroom. Their joy and warmth was overwhelming.
- Scott Wells
Here are a few pictures taken at Mary Gathoni's house by Mary's cousin, Kaith, who was 7 years old - his youger brother Derek, age 4 helped out and Greg Nevers was the photography coach-
Mary Gathoni's Grandmother and sister (Derek and Kaith's mother)
Paula and Tim (Mary Gathoni's sister and brother in Christ)
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