I have arrived in Kenya! I landed in Nairobi (the nation’s capitol) with my ACTS team at 1:00am on Tuesday the 4th (5pm on Monday 3rd, U.S. Central Time I believe), and at approximately 3am our team lodged in a Pentecostal Christian guest house.
I woke up on my own accord at 6:15am, but forced myself to lie in bed until 7am. I ate a normal American breakfast (bummer), and spent about an hour and a half on the balcony reading my Bible, praying, and journaling. Afterward, our team gathered together for a little worship and prayer together before we departed ways for the day to run some errands.
One of those errands was to buy three acoustic guitars to bring to the house of prayer in Kitale. Having grown up in a guitar-saturated community, I was shocked at how difficult it was to find any selection of acoustic guitars in the emerging city of Nairobi. We walked around with our taxi-driver/tour guide for a few hours before we accidentally stumbled upon a music shop that sold some decent guitars for a cheap price.
I am thrilled about bringing these guitars to Kitale, because one of our team’s strategies in accomplishing the objective of establishing a culture of worship-based prayer in the local Church is to have every one of our team members personally disciple a native Kenyan in prayer. We are each going to make a friend, and bring them into everything that we do in the prayer room. So, the three guitar players on our team are going to teach guitar lessons and give a guitar to three young men or women who are committed to be pillars of intercession in the house of prayer in Kitale for an extended period of time. This is such a cool idea! Hook a young adult with the worthiness of Jesus, give them the vision of leading worship and prayer in their city to welcome Him back, teach them the lifestyle, tools and instrument necessary to do it, and then get out of the way! I believe that by the grace of the Spirit this is possible. Pray that God would give us three passionate worship leaders to carry the censer of intercession in Kitale.
Anyhow, I could continue on with my observations of the culture, feel, architecture and people of Nairobi, but I am already running the risk of writing too much! I promise my updates won’t always be this long.
I’ll end with this:
- I sense the Spirit challenging me to be radical and risky.
- God is going to do something magnificent while we're here.
- I think the food thus far has been pretty good.
- I embark upon a 7-hour drive to Kitale tomorrow morning.
Love,
Michael
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