This is Jeptulu Friends Church where we have attended the last 3 weeks.  It is about a 30 minute walk from our house.



This Sunday was the celebration of their 90th Anniversary as a church.  Much work went into finishing the ceiling (brown), adding cloth backdrop to the stage, and even ribbons and balloons.  The church was packed with even the short nursery school chairs brought in for extra seating.  Donna and I stayed for 6 hours and then left while the ceremony continued.



As part of the celebration, they planted 6 Elgon Teak trees.  They asked Jim to plant one on behalf of Iowa Yearly Meeting.  They are a very slow growing hardwood and are beautiful when made into lumber for furniture.  They grow naturally here in the forest.



This is the young boy who dug the holes for the trees.  He used a pipe with a broken leaf spring welded to the end to do the digging.



This is Emily and Kayla, 2 of the Bible School students, who came to our house to teach Donna how to make chapatis.  It is like a tortilla, but with more substance - about a cup of flour each.