To the Coast
Our Made in the Streets Team was richly blessed with an R&R trip to the Kenyan Coast at Malindi.  Friends in California who know them gifted them with this trip so they could rest and enjoy and feel good about their ministry.  We took them to the Turtle Bay Beach Club near Malindi in two groups of 10 for 2 nights each.  It's an all-inclusive place where all food and sodas and juice and activities are included in the price.  What a great time they had in the pool, playing beach volleyball and water polo and table tennis and water aerobics -- drinking mango juice and eating ice cream and all those buffet meals.  And we took them snorkelling out by the coral reef -- some of them had never been in a boat!  And none had been snorkelling.  Irene Akinyi receives the award for most determined. She was afraid of the water, but she kept going back out again and again until she got the hang of it.  

The best part is that we fled on 540dot.com airline from Nairobi to Malindi -- none of them but the ones who came to the USA last year had been in an airplane.  They were delighted; well, Irene Mbithe was a little terrified at the first takeoff, but she got used to it.  Robin said it was the best trip he has ever been on.  Anthony and Kennedy made friends with lots of British tourists at the Resort, all of whom came to say goodbye as we left.  Francis and Jackton went out in a 2-person kayak.  When Jackton and Milly tried to get on one together, the waves knocked them down.  Jackton finally pedaled off, leaving Milly standing with a paddle in hand.  

We are really glad our Team could be blessed with such a good trip that enriches their lives.  Now they are back at work with the kids; one of the kids, Mercy Wanja, said, "I want to be a Team member."  Well, maybe we should send her to teacher training school and bring her back to us!!

peace and joy, charles and darlene