Visit by our sponsors (con't)

Visit by our CFCA sponsors

We hosted our CFCA visitors from the States and England yesterday and today as they traveled around the mountain. Besides an informative session and visits to families in the various areas where we work, we held entertainments in our St. Elizabeth courtyard. Our parents and students danced, sang, and recited poems for our guests. The workshop students surprised even themselves putting on a very entertaining play about how to resolve tribal differences.

Scouts Night Out

The scouts are camping out on the school compound tonight. Because it's cold they aren't using their tents---we put the girls in the library and the boys in a classroom, and borrowed the mats from the pre-school for mattresses. Tomorrow they will go to Nyeri for the Jamboree Day/Lord Baden Powell Day. Needless to say, they are very excited about the trip.

KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

I've been really moved that in a place where it's difficult to get even a friend or relative to give blood to one in need, a former student of mine, Irene, and her brother have been vying over who would be the one to donate a kidney to their father, a still relatively young man. They've both been deemed compatible and they both wanted to spare each other. It's now been agreed that the 22-yr old son will be the donor. They've worked really, really hard to make this possible. During the fundraising family members have sold their cows, taken out loans, and given up many things. The surgery will be this Sunday in India. Pray that the operations will be a success and that both father and son will have many, many happy fruitful years ahead of them.

Wedding Bells

(Yesterday's blog was a snowstorm on Mt. Kenya.) I'm changing it to a snap of Jean's wedding in December. For those of you who know the Thompsons (or knew Jean and Charlton as little kids), Charlton is second from left, Fr. Mazzucchi is behind Charlton, then Jean and Andre, then Ruth. Her pastors are on either end and this is the local Anglican Church which Arthur built.