August 3/4

Yesterday was Sunday and a day of worship for the team with the Trinity United Methodist Church in Naivasha. It was their 15th anniversary Sunday, so it was quite a celebration with a lot of praise and worship.  Our group was invited up to sing, and we sang a praise song that we had practiced in both English and Swahili. When we started in English, reaction was normal but when we got to the Swahili, they went immediately into cheering and sang with us.  It was a great 4 hour service and continued after we left! We then stopped at an outdoor barbecue for a late lunch of chicken and roasted goat where we had stopped last year. 

Monday we continued our construction work back at Gituamba IDP camp, with wall construction up as high as we can build before forming up the rebar columns which lock the walls together. Our team worked with the Kenyan workers mixing concrete on the ground and carrying it up to fill the forms for the overhead support beams. A small work team will go back tomorrow to begin forming up the column supports, while the rest of the team will travel to Hell's Gate National Park for sightseeing in the morning and then do a hygiene training and water filter distribution to 50 people who are HIV positive and at more at-risk of other diseases because of their compromised immune systems. SWOK has seen an earlier case where clean water made a tremendous difference in turning around the health issues of an HIV positive woman.