Biggest Spider

Posted on | August 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

Okay, I have to say Kara and I had the biggest spider I’ve ever seen with my own eyes on the ceiling of our bedroom over the door. It would fill the palm of my hand. We laughed about it; one of the ladies came in with a broom handle, punched in in the back, and killed it. I was impressed.

The time at the children’s home has been illuminating. We’ve watched what a truely well run and loving home can look like.

A team of doctors visited yesterday, whom Kara helped checkup the children and local villagers, remarked, “We’ve not seen such health children in all our visits here in Kenya.” They have done clinics in the slums and the rural villages.

This testifies to the key leadership of Eunice, and the commitment of the staff.

We visit a few of the partnership of the children’s home today: the church, the larger children’s home that inspired Eunice, and the government home where Eunice has rescued many of the children.

It’s still raining. Forecast is for partly cloudy tommorrow. I’m hoping to finish my inside shooting mostly today, and get outside tomorrow.

One thing I have learned from this is that running a media ministry from the U.S., though with it’s benifits, would face this same prohibitation. Because of the cost of travel, you are at the mercy of factors like weather or health of key people (poor Eunice has been sick). There are arguments on both sides for where best to do the work I want to do.

I think the deciding factor for me is Kara. As I’ve listened to her process, it is her heart to be with the people she is helping at length. She sees the value of traveling clinics, but the inherant weakness she sees resides in the lack of ability to make a long term difference. She has said she prefers to come along side local visions for a clinic with local people committed to it, and help enable them to make it happen or happen the best it can.

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