The fourth day of the Kenya trip was not really the forth actual day on the ground, but it was the fourth day of ministry. We gathered for prayer, ate breakfast, and went to the final part of the conference, but on this day, we didn't have any workshops to teach, so we booked A LOT of ministry outside the conference.
We went with Kariz and his Count Me In team to Dandora, the slum of Nairobi. Kariz is from the slum and has gone back to start churches. The first stop on our trip was an outreach at Kariz's church. The team brought school children from somewhere in the slum, and we got to minister to them in Kariz's church building.
We sang and danced to start things off. Then Drew Scott preached. It wasn't the first time he preached on the trip, but this was the first time I heard him. It was a good, compelling message, and at the end several kids gave their lives to the Lord.
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Dancing at the beginning of the service
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| Drew, preaching in Dandora |
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Praying with several kids who are giving their lives to Jesus
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| Ministry breaking out after Drew's message |
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After ministering to the children, Kariz and several locals took us into the slum. Technically, Kariz's church is in the slum, but there is an even slummier part of Dandora that is considerably more compact and dirtier. It is the slum that immediately surrounds the gigantic trash heap.
The trash place is the city dump for all of Nairobi. Because of the abject poverty in the city, thousands of people have begun living around the dump, finding food and things to sell in the dump, and many thousands of people live in the trash heap itself. It is apparently one of the most dangerous places in the country. I've been three times, and it has never felt dangerous to me. Kariz assures me that we are safe because we are with him and because we have many locals with us. Kariz is a local celebrity because he used to be the most dangerous gangster in the slum, but not he is saved and is the one of the most dedicated pastors in the same slum he used to terrorize.
Here are a few pictures of our hike through the slum and up the mountain of trash.
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| Tina and Harvard carefully walking past a giant hole in a sewage pipe |
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| We could have gone higher up the mountain, but we took the army of giant, flesh-eating birds, guarding the next ridge, as a sign that we had gone far enough. |
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