Today starts our week at the Worldvision Kenya headquarters just outside Nairobi. We are excited about what this week holds. Today (Monday) I am preparing for a photography seminar that I will be doing tomorrow. We will cover general topics of photography tomorrow and expect anywhere from 10-30 people arriving from all over Kenya just for the seminar. Then, on Wednesday, the seminar will get a bit more personal as I’ll be helping various people with questions about their specific cameras. Many of the field workers have just gotten digital cameras but haven’t had any training in how to use them. Hopefully we can change that this week.
Today we spent half the day driving around Nairobi trying to track down the adapter that I need to connect my laptop to a projector. I had resorted to doing the seminar without it, but we were able to locate the adapter, so we’re good to go. I wasn’t looking forward to doing a photography seminar without any visuals.
As you may have noticed from Danielle’s post, we are planning on heading out of Kenya this Friday. We really struggled with that decision (whether or not to leave a week early), however we have come to realize that we need time to process all that we have seen and done in the last few months. We accomplished all that we came to do (and much more) and if we don’t have time to work through our experience and debrief, we likely won’t have a chance to for several months. We hit the ground running once we get home. So, it’s off to France a week early. We’re really looking forward to our time there and our time together. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and support these last few months while we have been in Kenya. We have appreciated them greatly and look forward to sharing our many stories and photos with you in the next few months. During this week, keep praying for us, that the seminar would go well and that our final days in Kenya would go as smoothly as the rest of our trip has. Pray also that we are able to get on the flight (going standby) Friday.
Posted by slvrfrg at August 2, 2004 02:45 PMWow— I know I’ve said it before, but it keeps coming out as I read your journal entries, and continue to see how God is using you two, in so many neat ways, and how much he is teaching you through others, too. Your plan for the extra days to debrief, rest & assimilate all you’ve done, makes a lot of sense. Speaking from experience,
that can be very valuable time that I know we’ve often missed out on. I know, too, how much better my letters are when I take the time right then, to get my thoughts down, rather than putting it off until I get the time! ha! What time? smile… Maybe that’s why your journal entries have been so neat … they’re so fresh and current, and filled with neat details that get would often get missed. It’s almost been like we’ve been right there with you, even though we’re really just getting a glimpse of what you’re seeing and doing. Thanks for sharing your hearts! May the Lord bless these last few days in Kenya, in a soecial way.
Love, Mom