I realized yesterday that I made an error in my last post. Bishop Edward was not at Kisumu, but at Muhoroni, which is about 60kms from Kisumu. Our affiliated pastor at Kisumu was Pastor Geoffrey, also one of our first affiliates, who is now in Canada. I think the confusion came about because I first met the pastor I was ministering with this week, Pastor Henry, at one of Bishop Edward’s conferences.
I have had a few very easy days. Thursday was a rest day, for which I was grateful after two days of heavy ministry and long drives. I received a lovely blessing in the middle of the day – Apostle John Lamb, my dear friend and prayer partner from back home, video called me on WhatsApp so that I could briefly join in the Heart Focus outdoor prayer meeting. (Australia is 8 hours ahead of us here in Kenya.) It was so nice to see some familiar faces and hear Aussie accents! God is moving in revival power in John’s church, and I wish there was some way I could be here and there at the same time. That call made it possible, just for a few minutes.
Yesterday I had only a 4pm cell group meeting, so again it was a quiet day. I took advantage of it to sort out some of my ongoing connections. On Tuesday I will be going on to Uganda, but that is easy. I already have my visa, and Adams will drive me over the border to meet with Pastor David on the Uganda side. I will be in Uganda for a month, and then go on to Burundi. Again that is fairly easy – the visa can be obtained at the border (something that is becoming increasingly rare, with more and more countries opting of online applications) and I have already booked my flight. After that, it gets messy. My next stop after Burundi is the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R. Congo) which has incredibly complex visa requirements, plus the web site is in French. Fortunately our pastor there, Bishop Kyaba, is sorting through all that for me. The second challenge with D .R. Congo is how to get from there to my next destination, Benin. Bishop Kyaba is in the east of the country, and the main international airport is in Kinshasa, right over in the west – around 2,200kms away. There is a local airline, but they have very limited services and their web site doesn’t even list any flights at the beginning of March, when I will be making the trip, so it was impossible for me to even see if there could be a connection. I have been periodically tearing my hair out over this for weeks, and yesterday I just gave up and found a different option. This involves travelling back to Bujumbura (in Burundi) and flying from there to Kigali (Rwanda) and then on to Benin. Even this was not simple – there was a flight direct from Bujumbura to Kigali, about 40 minutes, but the connection was too tight, so I had to book one that goes via Nairobi, around 7 hours including the time at Nairobi airport. Can’t wait till “Philip’s Taxi Service” (Acts 8:39-40) kicks in and I don’t have to worry about flight connections!
Today was another rest day, so apart from seeking the Lord for the message for tomorrow, I have been getting creative with graphics. At home our monthly healing meeting at Yinnar is coming up next Saturday, so I created a button to share on Facebook and a leaflet to be printed and distributed to promote that. Then I decided to create a new Facebook header, something which I have been meaning to do for months because the old one had some outdated information (Churchill post office, where our PO Box is, moved last October. Their new location has fewer boxes, and as a result our box number was changed. Rather annoying, given that the reason I have a PO Box is so that I won’t have to change my address if I move.) So I spent quite some time playing with it to produce something that I think looks reasonable.
