19 September 2017

     Greetings from Giriama, deep in the rural interior on north coast.  I am quite fine except for the heavy rain that came today after I arrived.  This is my first clinic here since June and they had been needing rain.  So, I could take credit for bringing this important blessing along with me.  Tomorrow I am supposed to travel to Bamba, even more interior.  The road will be muddy so I'm planning to take a different route and hope for the best.
     Please note the new picture on the right of this blog page.  We are now three lay missioners in Mombasa and you can see all of us in our radiant beauty!  We are so happy to have Heidi join us.  She is our lawyer in residence and we are helping her to hone her constitutional law expertise.  The date for the rerun of the presidential election on Oct 17th is in doubt.  The IEBC doesn't have a contract to do the next election and the company that did it last time said it can't be ready before the end of October.
     Today there was chaos on the roads coming into and out of Nairobi.  For those of you in the US in particular who may be concerned, I will use this vehicle to keep people updated about my whereabouts.  Tomorrow the details of the judicial ruling which annulled the elections will be made public.  We can expect more violence. I have just heard the Chief Justice on the BBC.  He said the he is ready to pay the ultimate price to protect the constitution of Kenya and the rule of law.

PLEASE JOIN WITH US IN PRAYING FOR PEACE