My best friend in the whole world got to go on this Kenya trip with me. She lives in South Carolina so I didn't get to see her much at all during the school year. When we got out for Christmas break she surprised a lot of her friends at school! She came over to hang out and I told her all about this trip and how amazing it was going to be. She went home and prayed and talked to her parents about it and a couple months later they call us saying that she can go on the trip. I just about freaked out when I heard that she could come!
So. saying that, Milana and I woke up at 6:30 one morning to go and feed the babies. They were so happy in the morning! We went back to eat breakfast and kind of hung out and got ready for the day. We were picked up by buses and Bob and Julie (owners of NV) and headed over to see the new school Naomi's Village is building.
In Kenya the school system is very different. There are around 80 kids in a class with one teacher. That would be crazy just to start with. If you do good in school you are praised and raised up in front of the class. If you do poorly in school they will physically beat you and emotionally tear you down to where you really don't want to go to school anymore. This is why so many kids are not in school. They can't afford the uniform or they have had a bad experience while being in school. It is very sad.
At NV they have a school called Cornerstone. All of the Naomi's Village kids go to this school. They are building a new school that the NV kids will go to and people from the surrounding areas will go to as well. We got to go to the work cite and see people working on the school. Bob told us the whole story about the school situations in Kenya and why they felt the need to start this new school. We got to walk around and pray over the school. It was very cool!
Milana started to feel really sick right before we left to go have lunch. Right when we got to the cafe she got sick. After, she felt better but she was very weak. So I went back with Milana to NV while the group got to go to a primary school to play games with them. When we got back to NV I was kind of disappointed that I didn't get to go to the primary school. Milana went right to sleep and I didn't really know what to do. All of the kids were still in school, and all of the babies were taking a nap. I used that time to draw and read my Bible to reposition my heart as the trip was coming to an end. When the kids got out of school I went to see what everyone needed help with. I got to read and do homework with the first graders, play with toddlers, and help feed babies while the aunties ate their dinner. It was actually good for me to take a step back and have that little chill time.
When the whole group got back, we ate and I started to go through and edit some of the pictures! The biggest thing for me that day was to trust the Lord and let Him lead me. I didn't like that I couldn't go to the school with the rest of the group, but the Lord used me with the first graders to give the teachers a break, same with the toddlers! I just need to fully rely on the Lord!
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what
you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than
clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" Matthew 6:25-26
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