Kenyan Safari

"The morning I arrived in Nairobi on the last day ofhad travelled quite a distance to attend, on foot or
August, following an overnight flight, I managed toby bicycle, sleeping on straw mats each night in the
have a little rest, before going to teach at twochurch 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 largestUganda, last December, and asked if we would come
city in Kenya, to teach at Leaders' Meetings, and visitout 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 200with life but spiritual food is required to encourage
children were at lessons and I was invited to speak ingrowth 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, andslums, 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 tovehicles in which we were travelling, I thought I had
Mombasa, Kenya's second largest city, to be joinedseen 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, plusinvitation to do further teaching next year when they
preaching at Open Air meetings in the late afternoonssaid 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. SomeScotland.