| "The morning I arrived in Nairobi on the last day of | | | | had travelled quite a distance to attend, on foot or |
| August, following an overnight flight, I managed to | | | | by bicycle, sleeping on straw mats each night in the |
| have a little rest, before going to teach at two | | | | church building. |
| Leaders' Seminars that afternoon and preach at what | | | | "The invitation to visit Kenya arose when some |
| they called a 'Revival Service' in the evening. | | | | pastors attended the teaching Seminars in Kampala, |
| "Next morning I flew on to Kisumu, the third largest | | | | Uganda, last December, and asked if we would come |
| city in Kenya, to teach at Leaders' Meetings, and visit | | | | out to Kenya and help establish the new churches, |
| various homes and orphanages. | | | | giving sound teaching. These fellowships are brimming |
| "When I arrived at Covenant Orphanage, the 200 | | | | with life but spiritual food is required to encourage |
| children were at lessons and I was invited to speak in | | | | growth and maturity and endurance. |
| each classroom. The behaviour of the children was | | | | "Most of the teaching took place in the suburban |
| impeccable, rising to their feet when I entered, and | | | | slums, or away out in the country across some quite |
| expressing appreciation, when it was time to leave. | | | | rough terrain. When I looked at the tyres of the |
| "In mid-September I flew across country to | | | | vehicles in which we were travelling, I thought I had |
| Mombasa, Kenya's second largest city, to be joined | | | | seen more rubber on the end my pencil. |
| by Inverness lawyer David Masson and heating | | | | "On the journey home I had a meeting at Nairobi |
| engineer Colin Turner from Auldearn. | | | | airport with three pastors who presented an |
| "Again, it was teaching pastors at Seminars, plus | | | | invitation to do further teaching next year when they |
| preaching at Open Air meetings in the late afternoons | | | | said they could guarantee that around 200 would |
| on quite rickety platforms. Crowds soon gathered. | | | | attend. |
| "Teaching leaders was the priority, and the attentive | | | | "O, that we could see such a spiritual hunger in |
| listening of 80 or 90 pastors was impressive. Some | | | | Scotland. |