I have been blessed with the opportunity to lead 3 different "Covenant Groups," or small group Bible studies. It has been a blast getting to study the Word with girls each week!!! I meet with about 7 freshmen girls from Rosslyn Academy each Wednesday morning at Java House Coffee Shop to spend time together, eat breakfast, and study the book of Ruth.
Michelle and I are going through the Book of Mark with about 8 Middle School girls on Tuesday mornings. We also carpool the group to school in the mornings, listening to Taylor Swift the whole way! (: These girls are full of energy and love learning more about the Word.
Tuesday evenings I get to hang out with about 4 girls from Braeburn Garden Estates and Hillcrest High School. I met them at camp last summer and this summer. It’s been a blessing to get to continue relationships built in the summer through camp, and meet all their friends at school. They bring friends to our Covenant Groups, where we usually eat dinner at Art Caffe, talk about life, and scripture.
Yesterday, since they are out of school for half-term, we went on a little adventure to Toi Market, an outside market where venders sell vegetables, fruit, material, lots of second hand clothes, old purses, shoes, and various other things. I had SO MUCH FUN with the girls watching them bargaining with venders, shopping and talking about life together in the car.
I got a little taste of Texas this past week—Marsha Martin, missionary from Oak Hills Church to Southern Sudan, was in Nairobi. I was thrilled to spend some time with her! It was such a sweet day of sharing stories, encouragement, and a great reminder from Marsha that, “the only safe place in the world is when we are where God wants us to be.” We got to eat lunch together, and even had a little adventure. She was in need of a light jacket for the plane flight home, so we went to the local market where venders sell fruits, vegetables, and sometimes second hand clothes. It had been raining the day before so the narrow pathway in the marketplace was really muddy. Hopping from rock to rock, focusing hard on each step, and desperately trying not to fall! Marsha was a trooper—even in shoes that had a heel on them, she managed to not fall the whole time as Kenyans were greeting us and shaking our hand at each leap on the pathway. But, we found a jacket for her flight and ended up laughing for a long time about the crowded narrow muddy pathway we had just ventured through.
