Today was our fourth day at the Gituamba IDP Community site. As always, team members split up into various task groups. Some of the group spent a lot of time with the school kids, telling stories and working with them on crafts. Additional painting work was accomplished on windows and doors. A group of the women had competition moving stone into the steel framework of the house we are building for Wanshakae's family, and the full steel framing was constructed. Since the day held a lot of potential for rain, we held off pouring the concrete floor till Thursday. It's really great to see this house go from nothing but a bare field the first day to walls ready for frame panels with a concrete floor poured in less than a week with just a small portion of our team working on it. Two complete 11' x 25' sections of the concrete dining hall floor were poured today, leaving only one section to complete on our last workday Thursday. It was a great day of accomplishment.
On the way back from Gituamba to Nakuru, we took a detour up into the mountains to visit the equator. It is beautiful country, with coffee and tea plantations, up to an elevation of 7560 feet above sea level. We had the Lord's protection, as one of our vans had a serious breakdown that ended up being repaired quickly, since we broke down less than a half mile (all down hill!) from a "service station" (using that term extremely loosely!). We also saw His hand in preventing a head-on collision with a driver on a motorcycle, who only escaped a bad accident by mere inches. God is good!
Tomorrow will be another different day, with a boat ride, hike and picnic lunch on an island in Lake Naivasha with 29 of the street boys from Johnkim Kin's ministry which is supported by SWOK.
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