Thursday, April 15, 2010

Holiday Programme

April is a busy month here in Nairobi. This is largely due to the fact that all of the primary and secondary school students are on holiday. Instead of closing for 3 consecutive months in the summer, Kenyan schools close in April, August, and December. Last week Loresho Church hosted a holiday programme for children age 3-12, so the church was filled with sounds of laughter and song. The older children spent the week learning to crochet and studying what it means to be "Rooted and Built Up in Christ."

Personally, I volunteered to spend the week with the 3-6 year olds, so we spent our time coloring giraffes and kangaroos, singing Father Abraham, playing "Walk on Water," and generally having a good time! Wednesday we took the entire group on a trip to Kikuyu town to visit one of the first PCEA churches established in Kenya. Friday we ended the week with a "Culture Evening," where children presented information about their various tribes. Each presentation included traditional foods eaten, interesting facts, and how to say God is good in the language. We heard from the Luo, Kikuyu, Kipsigis, Meru, Luhya, and many more. We even heard about a strange community called Darlington in a place named South Carolina where they do something called the Shag :)

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