In Nakuru

We are now safely in Nakuru, Kenya’s fourth largest city. We met early this morning to finalize a few details about our “next steps” and then began the seven hour journey from Migori to Nakuru. Tomorrow morning bright and early we’ll be off to a safari drive; hoping to see 4 of Africa’s big 5: lion, leopard, Cape buffalo, rhinoceros. The African elephant is the fifth; however, they are not in this game park. Later in the afternoon we’ll start out for Nairobi. Our flight leaves tomorrow night at 10:30 pm Kenyan time, which is 3:30 pm east coast time. We’ll be connecting through Paris and then it’s on to Dulles, hopefully ahead of Hurricane Irene.

We’ve had a great time in Kenya and have met so many wonderful and warm people.  We’re looking forward to getting back home and connecting with as many soccer clubs as we can to get old uniforms and cleats donated for teams here in Kenya. Currently we have 6 teams in the 8-14 age and 6 teams in the 14 and above age group. They will be training and arranging matches with each other with the dream of having a big tournament next June.  Additionally, our aim is to provide the opportunity for the youngest Kenyan children to get a chance to touch a soccer ball and begin to develop the coordination and skills necessary for building a strong soccer foundation. These children are often pushed aside as the older boys get to play with the only real soccer ball. We’ve posted a picture of a boy and one such ball.

You may be wondering if there’s anything else that you can do to help out in some way. I’d like to encourage you to consider going to the Start With One Kenya website and make a donation for a water filter. There are many problems here but lack of clean water is one of the biggest causes of sickness and disease. You would not believe the dirty water that people are using for drinking water. The missionary that we are here with, Bill Coble, is dedicated to providing a water filter to every family in Kenya. www.startwithonekenya.org

Thanks for following our blog…now it’s back to watching the movie, Out of Africa.