We are here in NAIROBI!! Yeahhh! It was our 2nd day in Kibera today with The Well Youth Group. Wanted to give an update of our first two days after arriving here safely after lots of traveling. Our first day was spent learning about the history, touring the primary school, high school, and the Kibera slum. Today, we did a day camp for the entire primary school and tutored the high school scholarship students. It was a day of fun, craziness, and lots of great relationship building! Here are some pictures from the day and entries from two high school girls on the trip...
Kayla Jones, recent graduate from Hays High School in Hays, Texas
So, today we did a camp for the whole school and it was the most fun I've had, maybe ever! We played games that are so common to us, yet to see the joy that these kids were experiencing was indescribable. My team didn't win a single competition, but they were screaming and jumping and laughing the entire time! We also got to sing and do a bible story for them. I got to share a short testimony about joy in Christ. Afterward we all got to break into small groups and talk about the lesson. I got to ask them questions about God and the Bible and share the gospel with them. And best of all, got to pray with them and over them! I thought I would feel sorry for these people as I walked through the streets and saw their living conditions, but I didn'y feel bad for them. They don't know any different and their are so happy. The simplicity of their life intrigues me.
Taylor Koch, a senior at One Day Academy in Austin, Texas
So, I'm trying to compose my thoughts. Trying to write in words how these kids have impacted me. But it's hard to put something so mind blowing into words. The thing that stands out the most to me has been their joy. They have such a light about them, and it follows them wherever they go. Abby and I sat down with a group of 8th grade girls today, and we were told to talk to them about the presence of Jesus in their heart. We asked them if they knew what that meant, for Jesus to be in their heart. And this girl named Joan who always wears a white a white beanie looked at us and said " Jesus is the one who makes me clean, he makes all those things I did bad gone, and I prayed to him and I knew I had been forgiven. That my friends is God. I saw God in her. I saw it in one of it's simplest, yet most pure and beautiful forms.
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