Today we went with Ruth, one of the FTC students, to Jivuye Friends where she is the pastor.  We left home at 7:30 and walked one hour to get to the church, which is in the background.  Ruth is standing outside the fence that defines the Kaimosi Mission boundary.  The church is on mission ground.



One of the church members died this week, so about half of the normal attenders were gone to be at the home of the widow.  The service went from about 8:30-11:00.



We then were invited to the home of one of the church members named Frida.  Her husband has a job in Nairobi,so they have a very nice home.  The man on the far right is Meshack Musindi who is a teacher and Dean of Students at FTC.  He showed up unannounced, as is his habit, to check on his students to make sure they are being faithful in their student pastor assignments.  Frida did not know any of us were coming, but in a matter of minutes she served us chai, bananas, bread and butter sandwiches, and fresh avocado.  While we were eating that, she and her 2 daughters in law prepared a meal of chicken stew (they butchered one of their chickens) with rice, ugali (thick cooked maize meal you eat with your fingers), cow peas greens, cooked cabbage, and watermelon.



Frida also had 2 turkeys, which is quite unusual.

We then visited the home of 2 other church members on our way home.  We then walked through a beautiful tropical forest and arrived home at 4:15.