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This Video was made by Newspring Church and the 410 Bridge during the May 2010 service trip.

May 2010 video (5 min)

Wow! I'm in Africa

While I was walking around the mission I climbed up some rocks. In front of me in the distance was one of those crazy African trees that everyone sees on TV and in the disney movies. To the right was a dense area of shrubs, this is where the baboons lived. The baboons would sneak into the mission at night to steal corn. Elephants would drink water in the river behind me.

This river is the life blood of most of the people and animals in the area. The water is very dirty and it never flows quickly, even in when it rains. This slow moving river has cut away at the ground slowly. It has taken many years; hundreds or thousands to cut down 30 feet from the surrounding land. This river is very, very old.

Above is the view to the other side of the river.

This was the view to my left. I started to think about all the things around me and I heard a song. Someone had started a generator and hooked up a microphone with a keyboard so that one of the girls could sing. Her voice was incredible. She was singing about "Christo" which is Jesus in swahili. The music was very real and very African. I stood on the rocks looking around. I got goose-bumps and at this  moment I realized I was in Africa. I was in Kenya and I had a job to do. I prayed that I could do it well.

Pics from the Segera Mission

Segera Mission: David

David uses his bike to get water for his family with two flat tires. Like all the children I met he is very smart. David can speak swahili, his mother tongue (tribal language) and english. In school he studied calculus. He knows world geography better than I do. He is also very curious about everything we can tell him. For most of the children that can get to a school, education stops around age 12. After age 12 most of them start living life. They are treated like young adults by their family and tribe. The teenage years of western culture do not exist in the outback of Kenya.

Segera Mission: Our first look

We drove through the village of Nanyuki to the mission. All of the work projects that Newspring will do are located and arranged with the Segera Mission. It is a large compound with a church, school, farm, doctors office, library, barracks and community center.

The Mission was open to children from all over the surrounding area. Children were everywhere and most of them had seen Mazungos (white people) before, but not all.

Most of the Children had never seen a picture of themselves. When we took a picture of them and showed them the back of the camera they were fascinated.