Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Well its hard to believe that its Christmas time again....and even harder to believe it when you are living in hot, humid, steamy temperatures here in Mombasa. And the temp and humidity just seems to keep climbing as the days go by. One shower a day has turned into at least 2 or 3 and the laundry piles up as I change my sweaty clothes over and over. Oh but that’s life here at the coast!

Many of you know by now that I will be staying in Kenya til January 16th so I can spend the holidays with Dennis’ family in Busia (Western Kenya) before coming back to the States. Dennis finished teaching last week and left yesterday to go on to Busia to continue work on his house being built in his Father’s compound. I am remaining here with the rest of the team until this Sunday. This is a picture of our whole Serve Kenya team (from left to right is Jill, Kristin, me, and Patrick and Dennis behind)



On Sunday I will be taking a little wild adventure on my own and will be traveling to Nairobi BY TRAIN and will stay there a week so I can visit old friends. I’ve never traveled by train so its going to be a first for me. It takes twice the time to get to Nairobi by train but it travels at night and I’ll have some sort of a bed to sleep in instead of sitting straight up on a bus. And the neat thing I’m looking forward to is to wake up early the next morning as we roll through Tsavo Safari Game Park just before Nairobi. If I’m lucky I hear I just might see some animals!

After a week in Nairobi I will then take a bus to Busia and meet up with Dennis and his family there. I don’t know exactly what Christmas or New Years will be like there but I’m always up for a new adventure and experience. And if its with Dennis its bound to be fun!

I will probably not have any regular email access for the entire month of December so don’t be alarmed if you don’t’ hear from me. I will have my cell phone though and would WELCOME any phone call from home!! (hint hint) Would be good to hear voices from home. My number is (254) 0725 121063 (if that doesn’t work leave out the zero before the 7)

As you and your family celebrate Christmas together this year please remember the REAL REASON we call this time of year CHRISTmas!! And then go share with others why Jesus Christ our Savior was humbly born into this world....

“….Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”
Philippians 2:6-11

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!