Trip to Western Kenya

Over the past few days, Chris and I went to western Kenya to help pastor Indiazi (who we work with in the Kibera slum weekly) put up a fence on some property he has in Busia, which is on the Kenya/Uganda border. It was nice to be able to help him and see alot more of Kenya. We saw so many beautiful places that it's painful to pick and choose which pictures to put on here.After getting about an hour outside out of Nairobi, we had an amazing overlook of the Rift Valley as we descended into the African plains. Once we got down to the valley, it was very dry but we passed by big groups of gazelle, zebra, babboons, and warthogs. We noticed for a couple of miles that all of the babboons were sitting on both sides of the road and didn't understand until we stopped to take a picture of them. The moment we stopped, this guy darted from across the other side of the street to where we pulled off in half a second. They wait on the road because they get their food from people passing by.
Another 100 kms later, we ascended into the mountainous town of Kericho, where we are doing a young adult conference next weekend where I will be preaching a couple of sessions. Kericho is where the famous Kenyan tea is grown. This is a picture of the tea fields which went on for many miles. The tea fields and operation is so large that the owners provide housing for the tea laborers. We saw three different places scattered throughout the fields that consisted of a few hundred really small houses that the laborers live in. Kenya is also a big producer of sugarcane and rice and we drove by big fields of both of these as well.

This is a picture of Lake Victoria. We spent a little time there and went down to the water, but I wanted to include a far off shot, which I didn't take many of.

Close to our destination, we passed by this rock they call "The Crying Stone." This is a rock somewhere around 70 ft. high that has water pouring out of it year around, both during rain seasons and dry times. It's kinda mysterious to Kenyans because there is no visible water source anywhere around it.

This is Busia, where pastor Indiazi has his property and where we helped him put up his fence. Busia is far away from civilization and this is what types of homes you see off the main road. This is a picture of his neighbor.

Once we saw the property, Chris and I thought that there was no way we could get the property fenced in the small amount of time we had, but literally two minutes after getting there, half the village showed up and began grabbing every tool we had and did the work with us. They were the most incredible people. Below was the end result. Kenya is a beautiful country!