The look on Linda’s face when I was given a live chicken as a thank you for preaching on Sunday – priceless!We have arrived in Kericho safely, we stopped at Navaisha on the way, there is a coffee shop there that does a good latte. So we were sitting out enjoying the coffee when we were approached by a small group from Sierra Leone who wanted to have their photo taken with us- that is the problem when your famous –you can’t even drink a cup of coffee in peace.
On Sunday I was preaching twice, the 0830 service at Kericho town although the time has been changed and it now starts at 0800 – so I was late but no problem as the preacher never starts before 0900. I spoke about Peter escaping from prison.
After that we were met by Pastor Rutto and we were going to his church – which was not far. An hour later we arrived – the journey was terrible, the road (or pathway is a better description) was bumpy, the car got stuck in the mud – but we got there finally. The service was in Kalejin so We didn’t understand much about it – but I preached in English. The children kept coming up to Linda and stroking her arm- they have probably not seen a white woman before – or maybe they wanted to be close to a TV star- probably the former as there is no electricity in the village so no tv. I preached for about 40 minutes and it was about 12.15. As lunch was not till 1pm – there was time to fill so I was asked to speak to the men about leadership and Linda went outside with the ladies and spoke to them I got the better deal as the ladies had to sit on the grass.
They provided dinner – it begins with R. After that we wanted to leave as I needed to do some work for College and they produced a pumpkin (not as big as the one I grew I must point out) and a live chicken. I am not sure what they thought we were going to do with the chicken as we were staying at a hotel. Linda started off “I am not having that chicken in the car – Simon do something” I said “what do you want me to do wring its neck”. In the end I spoke to the Pastor and asked them to give it to someone at the church who needed it- he thought it was funny!
We went to Joseph’s house for dinner in the evening – no chicken on the menu. I then worked till about midnight but Linda needed her beauty sleep.
On Monday we were at the college, the day didn’t start well as I forgot the keys to the lock on the bag I leave at the college and Linda had to come back to the hotel to collect them. Having opened the bag and got the projector out I found there was no electricity. This lack of electricity does cause problems with trying to show powerpoints – as I was the only one who could see it. So it was back to old fashioned means – chalk.
I managed to use the Itouch and my portable speakers so we could listen to some of the materials. Its been a busy day and its is warm here but rains every afternoon.