Wow! What a day! We spent some time at breakfast in prayer for the board meeting Jamie would be in most of the day today. And the Lord certainly heard our prayers. Jamie reported later that the meeting went incredibly well! Some issues that he thought might be touchy ended up being no problem at all. Other areas where problems needed to solved, solutions were decided upon easily. And new ideas were given for improvements in several areas! The board was all in unison on whatever decisions they made were first and foremost for the babies well being above all else.
The women continued holding and loving babies today. In the morning, they were able to get a group of them together for a special picture (it's a surprise!). You can imagine trying to get a large group of toddlers to cooperate for a picture was not easy, but I think we were able to get a few that we could use!
Then in the afternoon, we walked with several of them down to the farm. It is so good for them to get outside of the gates of the baby center. They take in everything around them! All of them liked watching the Cuckoos (chickens) but a few of them were terrified of the Cows! Mesh even tried to pull some of the kids who were not afraid back from the fence because he was so concerned the cows might "get them"! We were able to see a baby calf that was born just one week ago! We also were there when some local women came to buy milk. God is providing for the babies in so many different ways!
Water is still being sold everyday from the front gate. As well as by delivery. We have been so fortunate to have been able to continue to have enough water for the babies even though there has been a drought.
In the evening, we were invited to Ann and Eliud's home for supper. We had such a good time of fellowship! Ann made us a buffet of different traditional Kenyan dishes to try. She had beef stew, chicken stew, vegetable stew, chepati, spiced rice, yams, boiled sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, sukumuwiki, and a bitter root. She also wanted us to eat it in the traditional Kenyan way (with your hands)! For dessert we had mixed fruit (paw paw, bananas, pineapple and passion fruit). After supper we sat around and talked, but most of all laughed! Pastor Habib and his family were also there and as he said, he has the gift of encouragement!
And the highlight at the end of the day was...no pigeons!!!! Well there were just a few, but the pigeon warriors have already figured out a plan to stop even those few! It will be so nice not to have those birds above the children's play area - they are so dirty! Now if we can figure out how to prevent them from dropping the bowling balls on the roof at 5am - we'll be really happy!
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