Tuesday evening update - Baby Center

We left Nairobi Monday am, at 8:10am and headed to Nakuru. Kelli woke in the night with strept throat, so her sister (yep, that's me) started her on antibiotics. I drove because I am still not able to travel on the bad roads of Kenya for far. The road to Nakuru was recently redone, so it is SWEET! Last week part of the new road was closed and traffic diverted, but praise God, this week, all open. It was drizzling and cool as we left Nairobi and even got into some thick fog, so the view of the Rift Valley was not the best, hopefully the team will see it more clearly when they return to Nbi on Thursday. We arrived in Nakuru town around 11am and did some shopping for gifts. Then we went on to Billy Wayne & Jenny Fuller's home for a marvelous lunch on their veranda (porch) that overlooks Lake Nakuru. It was great fellowship, great food and what a view! After lunch on to Jim & Alice Vanderhoofs, another couple of missionaries and our WGM Kenya Field Directors. We had dessert there, along with Jon, Vera, Ben, Brenden and Bethany Steury. What a treat to be with many of our missionaries all in one day. Then on to the AGC Baby Center, where we now have 27 precious babies. Staci Wells Keter welcomed us and showed the rest of the team around the place. Kelli went to bed to rest and keep her germs away from the precious little ones. Rhea & Lesley helped me as we saw several of the babies who were sick or needed review. The others spent the rest of the afternoon holding and playing with babies. Then to supper at the home of Priscilla & Stephen Kones and their daughters, Dorothy & Faith. Priscilla is the RN who is a Tenwek graduate and one I mentored and worked with in Peds at Tenwek. She calls me her Mom. SWEET! She made a feast for us. Then we had a time of them sharing their testimony, welcoming us to their home and then their girls sang to us, first Joy to the World in English and then another song telling of how the Lord will never leave us, in Kipsigis. We were all smiling.

After a good night of rest, we had breakfast together then the team left for Mosop Mission School, to greet children there and then on to Tenwek Hospital. They arrived there safely and have had a tour and gone to their supper at the home of another of my daughters, Linner Rotich, and her family. They go on to Maasai Mara tomorrow and then return to Nairobi and my home on Thursday afternoon. As one of the team put it the other day, "we've seen so much we can hardly absorb it all."

Whitney Smith, one of our WGM VIA (volunteers in action) and I returned to Nairobi this afternoon after I saw a total of 18 of the 27 babies at the Center. They had a GI bug that went around a week ago and now many have colds and have gotten ear infections. Please pray that they will heal. What a precious bunch they are! If you want to see some of their smiling faces check out www.agcbabycenter.org

Until Thursday, God bless you, each one. Thank you for your prayers and for sending the team here. What a blessing!!! Robyn