What's happening at UMMS?

One full week now spent at the United Methodist Mission School here in Nakuru. This is the main school I will be working at. Here are some highlights:

-          Playing hand slapping games with primary students….everyday

-          Getting a tour of the school daily by a student I meet who is eager to show off the newest Mzungu to the school

-          Reading the “boxcar children” to 3^rd graders  who identify more than I can understand of the story of 4 orphaned siblings who must now care for themselves and one another

-          Listening to the after school worship of students, teachers, cooks, and other staff workers as they praise their Savior simply because He is worthy!

-          Seeing children who have been through much in their young life simply be children by playing and laughing while everything else fades away

-          Swahili lessons from the top class – the kindergarten class at the nursery school…yeah, we are pretty much on the same level

-          Students that find it hilariously curious that a Mzungu knows some Kiswahili

-          At the same time these same students shocked to realize how not fluent in Kiswahili that same mzungu is

-          3^rd grade boy chasing classmates around with a fake cockroach …for 30 minutes. Even in Africa, boys are boys

Hearing 1^st -3^rd graders respond proudly, boldly, and eagerly when the teacher asks, “Who was Jesus?” One small boy excitedly declared “The Son of God!” Five years old and so sure of who his Jesus is!