This weekend was nice because we got a chance to breathe a little, even though we were still out and about for most of the day. We went to Mavuno downtown for church, then had a traditional Kenyan lunch and went to the Maasai market in downtown Nairobi.
The church service was great, the message was about investments and if God is investing in you, what is His return going to be? This hit me because I know that being able to come on this trip has been a huge blessing, and I just hope I have created blessings for others and touched enough lives in return. The hardest thing has been knowing that even though I can stop a child from crying and make them laugh for a day, the reality is that I was only with most of them for one day and they have the rest of their lives ahead of them, they still have to find something to eat that night, and they still have to sleep in the dirty slum at night. This once again was just a reminder that we can do nothing worthwhile with out God. Through prayer, we can pray for them to know the promise of eternity, for them to know God and to trust Him to protect them. I know a lot of the medical providers in the group were struggling a little with the fact that we spent all day treating and helping, but we have no way to really follow up with these people and know if what we did had a lasting effect, or if they even followed our advice. I just hope that we gave them hope, I hope that they saw our love for them because of the Lords love for us. If that light was able to shine through, then I think we did what we set out to do.
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