Sunday at Ridgeways Baptist Church

Lets Worship Kenyan Style

Sunday morning we walked half a mile to Ridgeways Baptist Church for the 10:00 a.m. service. Joy read the info on the website wrong and the first service was from 8:30-10:00 and the second service was from 11:00 -12:30. So, we all walked back to the lodge and waited for another 45 minutes and headed back out. Thanks Joy! At least we got our 2 mile walk in! 👣 👣

The service started on time and worship lasted over 45 minutes, some songs were in English and others in Kiswahili with English wording for us Mzungus, foreigners. Pastor Wanje stepped up after worship and spoke on "To Love is to Serve". He told the story of Zacchaeus. God saw past Zacchaeus' failures to what he could do for God. What made us all think was what the pastor said next, "Are we ignoring people because we think they aren't good enough for us?" WoW!  After the sermon, there were announcements and others spoke about was coming up in the month. We were dismissed a little before 1p.m. (Don't get any ideas Pastor Thom!

After church, we were invited to Peter Wanjiru's home for an early dinner. Peter has been a part of Huruma HOPE since it's inception as he was a teacher at the school when the very first team came to visit in 2005. He now supports our ministry by helping to transfer money from the Kenyan bank to our bank there. He also is the liaison for those scholarship students who we still support after graduating grade 6. We appreciate him and his love for Huruma HOPE School.

His wife, Dorcus, prepared a lovely meal for us of rice with beans, cabbage, stew, and chapati, which is a tortilla like staple in Kenya. We gobbled up it all up with delight, some had seconds. No judgement! 

Arlene had stopped by the store to pick up some cakes and ice cream for dessert. It was a great time and we hated to leave but the family had a busy day coming up on Monday as Dorcus has nursing school and the children were going up country to visit with family .