One Team

Ok--I have a few more posts on Kenya that still need to be written. (Maybe more--I am not making any promises!)



While talking to a teenager at Vipingo, I asked her what were her impressions and thoughts on Americans. She said that she thought that they were all very good people. I quickly set her straight.



While in Kenya, most of the children wanted to be close to us, and all the time we were driving around the cities, I rarely viewed any animosity on people's faces as the "van full of white people" drove by.



I suppose most of the children saw us--and then made a judgement on Americans--in general. So I guess in some ways we were ambassadors for USA.



I wish and hope it was different than that, though. I really pray that when the children played with us and received the love that we gave them that we were able to represent Jesus. I would much rather be an ambassador for Christ.



I do pray that some day, maybe when these children are much older, that they can look back at memories of the visitors that came to their school--and they won't think of them as 'white people', or even 'Americans', but as Christians.



One of the Kenyan pastors--maybe it was Pastor John, but I am not sure, said that he hoped that the children would stop seeing the different color of the skin, but see only one race--the human race. I wish the same for children in America.



The schools and churches that have been built by Fox River Christian Church are staffed by passionate, Kenyan Christians who are awesome ambassadors for Jesus. It was wonderful to be working with them--side by side--on the same team, if only for a few weeks.