This is one of the kids we gave shoes to at the church we went to on sunday outside of Machacos. Those are sally's red flats :)

Another kid who got a pair of tennis shoes

This is Ben, one of the DTS staff at the base

This little girl was the last kid to get a pair of shoes :)

Some of the many kids who attend Sunday school there

This is the church, they are building a new building and plan to move into it in a few months

Fun weekend!



On friday we took a trip to Machacos and went to the market there to buy ingredients to make Amanda (one of the DTS students) brownies for her birthday!



Having a kenyan somosa for the first time! Sooo good!

Making brownies with shalana, one of the Celia and Petterson's kids

Birthday slumber party!

This morning with the kids who attend one of the base ministires called Kings Kids.There are about 20 kids who walk over from Makutano to attend.  David and Miriam hold the children's program every saturday morning, this morning we did a skit by max lucado about each of us being special, it was really fun!

The night watchmen butchered this cow that died to make dog food. They also skinned it and will sell it's hide.

Washing clothes by hand is an art, but we're getting the hang of it






Everday we have "work duty" here we are cooking with Molly. She is a missionary from Brazil



Cooking chapatis on a jiko

Rolling out chapati dough

Mass producing chapatis!

Our dormitories, our roomates Sheila (from Canada) and lydia (from Kenya) stay in the room farthest to the right

Although the situation with Somalia is gettng worse, we are really safe here at the base becuase we are in the "bush bush". We are not going into Nairobi because of terrorist threats, but everywhere we will be traveling on outreach are safe areas. Our speaker this week is Ted, from Winsconsin he has been a huge blessing and is an amazing speaker! This weekend we will be going to a local church to give out shoes collected by the church, thank you so much for all your donations, they will be a huge blessing!



Our roomate Sheila beheads an antelope with African war paint on her face, we later had it for lunch.  



Petting the neighbors water buffalo

First matatoo ride into Nairobi



Giraffe sighting in the bush bush at the base



Our DTS all crammed into the same matatu





The neighbors lion!

 We've arrived safely and are settling in here at the YWAM Athi River Base. It's really dry here, but beautiful there are lots of wild animals that we see almost everyday. We started class last monday and will hear from a new speaker each week until we are done with lecture phase and move onto outreach. There are 26 of us students in our DTS, 12 Africans and 14 other students from Canada, Germany, Netherlands and the US. We're still getting to know each other but are becoming a good group. One of our neighbors near the base owns lots of land and raises lions, cheetahs, ostriches and water buffalos. So we've been able to visit them a couple times. Yesterday some girls from a nearby school came to the base and we visited with them and talked with them about thier futures. We've had an amazing time so far and are looking forward to our speaker for this next week who is actually from The States.