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| Judy, Coralis, Susan and Teresa |
CHANGE ONCE AGAIN
Our Mombasa community of lay missioners has changed once again. The Klueg family has returned to the US to live and work in Detroit Michigan. But Coralis Salvador has returned from her leave of absence and is with us once again. We did not receive any new lay missioners to Kenya in the orientation group for this fall which was a disappointment. Perhaps the ongoing insecurity has discouraged others from joining us. But we are very supportive of one another and are all very happy to be a small but committed nucleus of followers of Jesus!
I write this from Illinois but have kept abreast of the visit of President Obama to Kenya on July 27th. He had promised his father's family that he would come before he left the presidency. However, the President and Vice President were accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. The first case was put on hold due to failure of the government to comply with investigations. The second case is still progressing. In order to get around the dishonor of visiting leaders with international indictments President Obama came to address the International Conference on Entrepreneurship which was held in Nairobi. He stayed less than two days and the trip cost the US tax payer $60 million. I, for one, was a bit skeptical about the benefit of the whole thing.
But this is what one of my friends wrote:
"It was great having your president come over. It has helped grow our economy in many ways. I like his message blunt and clear on girls and women. You know how that has affected us big time. When girls and women have no place in the society bad things happen because nobody cares all they care about is how much they can steal and grab for themselves. This obviously has affected our country's economy adversely money is in the hands of the select few. Just look at what's happening to the shilling against the dollar. It's crazy. It hit a cool 101 against dollar yesterday!!! Who's in charge the men! Corruption is big here you know it and he spoke about it strongly. Well in short glad he came and hit it on the head."
The shilling has continued to slowly lose value and that means my dollar goes farther but their shilling doesn't go as far. So perhaps the cost of the trip was worth it. This person is a 34 year old woman who really works hard to try to improve the lives of those who are less fortunate.
I am writing this from Urbana Illinois where I have just seen the full moon rise...the second full moon in the month of July...which some people call a blue moon. This picture was taken over the Indian Ocean in Mombasa by Mary Oldham.
But this is what one of my friends wrote:
"It was great having your president come over. It has helped grow our economy in many ways. I like his message blunt and clear on girls and women. You know how that has affected us big time. When girls and women have no place in the society bad things happen because nobody cares all they care about is how much they can steal and grab for themselves. This obviously has affected our country's economy adversely money is in the hands of the select few. Just look at what's happening to the shilling against the dollar. It's crazy. It hit a cool 101 against dollar yesterday!!! Who's in charge the men! Corruption is big here you know it and he spoke about it strongly. Well in short glad he came and hit it on the head."
The shilling has continued to slowly lose value and that means my dollar goes farther but their shilling doesn't go as far. So perhaps the cost of the trip was worth it. This person is a 34 year old woman who really works hard to try to improve the lives of those who are less fortunate.
I am writing this from Urbana Illinois where I have just seen the full moon rise...the second full moon in the month of July...which some people call a blue moon. This picture was taken over the Indian Ocean in Mombasa by Mary Oldham.
May the light of the gentle moon beams
connect us all to one another,
remind us we are sisters and brothers
and fill us l with peace and love.
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