As a staff team we worked for 10 hours over four days seting up partnerships and deciding where we would place each team.  It went surprisingly smoothly! Tiffany was assigned to a city called Nakuru, which is about 4 hours drive from Nairobi.  She'll be working with teenage mothers who have been rescued from the streets and are being rehabilitated from drugs and abusive relationships.  She was paired with a girl named Andie, I'm excited to hear about their friendship when we see each other again in three weeks. Please pray for peace for me, as I'll be concerned for her safety while we're apart.  I was paired with a young man named Shemiah from Bozeman, Montana.  We're going to be working in Mathare Valley Slum with a church there that is really involved in the uplift of the community.  I know that I will be changed by some of the most materially poor but spiritually rich people on the planet.  Please be praying for my relationship with Shemiah, we're going to need words of encouragement for one another for the difficult setting.

                                                        Shemiah, Me, Andie, and Tiffany

Coming back a second time has been incredible.  It has been a litmus test of my growth in the Lord.  I am a very different person than I was two years ago.  O how the Lord matures us.  I'm excited to head into the slums in the morning.  Kwaheri.