Sunday 15 May 2011
The wakeup came up very early or only a few hours after going to bed. We stayed at the Lutheran Guest house,(Scripture Mission Conference Center) and we had good hot tea and a light breakfast. We were scheduled to depart the Guest house for Grace Church at 9 am but we were in Kenya and finally got away about 10:15 and the services started at 10:00. We hated to miss the first 2 hours but we did make it there for the last two hours of the service.
We had a wonderful time with the congregation and Ben and Rita Muriith hosted us while were we there. We really enjoyed visiting in their home and Ben had a wonderful farm where he produced fresh vegetables for the local super markets, restaurants and markets. Ben is producing tomatoes, cabbage, celery, beets, onions, spinach, kale, cucumbers, corn, bananas, butternut squash and several other items. The farm is super organized and really produces the organic products year round because of the climate. Emmanuel is the designated worker for the gardens and he does a great job with keeping the plants in rotation and keeping enough of head to meet the needs of their customers. He is looking for okra so next year I will carry him some seeds.
Ben has several milk cows, chickens and geese. The waste from the animals is used to operate the bi-gas generator that produces the gas need to operate the stove that they cook with.
Rita is a great cook and she has made a great supper for us. It has been a long day and we are going to bed early so that we can handle the long day scheduled for tomorrow. Rita handles a lot of the sales for the farm and keeps things moving.
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