Blog 1 From Dulles, Washington DC

This is the first of hopefully several comments on life I’ll be making while we are away, again.

A little background for those who do not know.  A few months ago, while Joyce, the wife, was away at a women’s retreat with church I got an e-mail from Steve.  That’s Steve of Steve and Judi, friends that we made in 2009 during our last journey into Kenya.  I’m sure you’ll hear more about Steve, and Judi, along the way here, but for now all you need know is that they are 2 of 3 Americans that manage Christ’s Gift Academy (CGA), a primary school in Mbita Kenya.  This e-mail, the subject of which was not expected, asked if Joyce and I would be interested in coming back to Mbita for a couple months and watch over CGA while they came to the states for a couple months.  An interesting invitation that had me pondering fond thoughts of the last visit.  Not thinking things through completely I forwarded the e-mail to Joyce, as it said Joyce could just love on the kids.  And Joyce loves to love on the kids, so I thought she’d get a kick out of the request.

Fast forward a couple days to Joyce’s return and her looking over the e-mails from the weekend.  I think I remember waiting for the reaction to come.  maybe a should say waiting for a reaction, because as I mentioned I didn’t think much past this point.  Joyce comes out to the living room with a broad smile and wide eyed look on her face.  ‘OMG, really, could we can we, why not?’ or something like that came from her lips.  It than struck me and had not planned a comeback for this inevitable response of hers.  I just assumed that she would say ‘what fun that would be’, we would politely decline the request and life would continue in Beaverton, OR.

The fact that this entry is coming from out nations capitol should be a clue that that is not how if went down.

I did not have a valid comeback for the why not.  God was directing us again and there would not be much I could do to misdirect myself.  I even tried praying for God to put up the roadblock tat never came.  So less than 3 months later I find myself on a 4 day journey to arrive back at Mbita.

Just Joyce and I this time, no kids jumping on our band wagon this time.  Of course Morgan is already in Kisumu Kenya and is, needless to say, quite excited we are coming.

Here’s the first 2 pics of the trip.  The first in PDX the second in DIA.

We’re out of here,

Paul