Day Two
Posted by Dennis Chitwood Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:41:00 GMT
11/27/05 We arrived Nairobi, Kenya tired after 28 hours travel time from St. Louis. We had a surprise when we arrived. There on the conveyor was our luggage, which we were told would not arrive on time because of the rerouting that happened in St. Louis. Peter Thompson and Fr. Kevin McGarry met us and we drove to the compound of Mabulbul Catholic Church. Fr. Kevin, with God’s grace, has done amazing things. He established the first Catholic Church in Karen, which is a suburb mostly, populated by Muslim community. There is a mosque within seeing distance and we hear them praying over the loud speakers numerous times during the day. In fact as we were going to pray evening prayer at 6 P we heard them praying. This new Catholic community opened a dispensary, we would call a clinic, then opened a primary school and now a secondary school exists as well. Plans are to build a very modern secondary school next year. The4 church, which seats 2000, was completed in ’03 and they only owe $40,000 now. Fr. Kevin plans to have it paid in full when he gets transferred in Jan. Just spent a delightful evening sharing stories of miracles with our team of Angelus, Peter Thompson, Fr. Con Murphy (not related to Jim) and Fr. Kevin and a young man Matt who just finished climbing Mt. Kenya today and is on the N.E.T Hopefully we will post tomorrow.
