We are heavy into our clinic schedule. The team is skilled in loading and unloading the vehicles and setting up a medical clinic under trees or in mud walled churches is now second nature!! It takes about 45 minutes from the time we unload until we are able to start seeing patients. They come slowly at first but when word gets out that a medical clinic is in the rural community, they come from all points of the compass. We do not know how far they walk but I do know that the Masai think nothing of a 10 mile walk, even when they are sick. In the first three days we treated close to 500 people. One woman who came in for sore knees and lower back pain, was accompanied by her 69 year old son. Turns out that she was 107 years old!


The Masai are generally healthy but they still lack basic health care. One young girl, three year old Anna, was brought to us comatose, malnourished and a high temperature. Our nurse carried her on the back of a hired motorcycle 18 miles to take her to the local hospital. We have had similar cases where the children were purposely starved and this appeared to be one of those situations. Today, we went to see her at the hospital and she was bright, smiling, and able to walk the hall to her bed with a small piece of roasted corn in her hand! What a blessing to our team as we had prayed for her extensively!!!

The evangelism team, a group of 20 Kenyans, trained by Rev. Joe Michael, a country director for E3 Partners, worked hard over the first three days, talking to almost 400 people and leading at least 170 to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. What a blessing to pray for them and then send them on their way: two walking towards the river, three towards the rising sun and others towards groups of huts. One group was invited to speak to a public primary school about God. About 55 kids were there and 17 of them asked Jesus Christ to be their Lord and Savior. On Sunday a new church was started under a group of trees. Our team was honored to be with over 160 people who were there for the first church service!

We are now on the home stretch and some are looking at our return home with mixed feelings. We are eating well, sleeping little and feeling very blessed and honored to be serving the people of Kenya!