A Few Rough Days

Yesterday and today were rough days. Nothing bad or anthing just frustrating. Yesterday work was crazy. Problems arose due to communication issues (for those of you who remember I quit my last job working under Kenyans - teaching at my former school - because of communication issues).

Msafara has 7 departments:

- The Secretariat (where Dad works) which is headed by Pastor Oscar (an amazing man with an amazing vision) and is pretty much in charge of everything.
- The Msafara organization department, which is responsible to make sure Msafara takes off as planned, headed by Pastor M.
- The Logisics department, responsible to make sure everything from now until March 17th runs smoothly.
- The Spiritual department, responsible for prayer and fasting now and planning the "spiritual" events of Msafara, headed by Pastor Simon.
- The Communty Networking Department, which has a longer term goal of bringing pastors together to promote peace and unity in Kenya
- The Humanitarian department, responsible to planning and coordinating relief to interally displaced people (IDPs).
- my department, the Media department, headed byPastor Gowi (who is doing an amazing job trying to bring together so much stuff in so little time), which is responsible for media relations, advertising, PR and getting out positive redemptive stories of hope highlighting what the church is doing.

Needless to say the things done in each department overlap and that means sometimes we are doing double work.

Then yesterday I felt redundent. The only thing it seemed I was contributing was my computer and my typing skills - necessary but not very fulfilling.

Thankfully by the end of the day I had a few more things to do, like helping Pastor Oscar write and edit a message for Pastors to help them know how to get involved. I enjoy working with P. Oscar because he expresses himself in a way that I easily understand and grasp onto. I also got some information about a posssible story I can write.

Today was a lazy day. I didn't do much. But it was one of those frustrating and discouraging days. Reflecting on the difficult and unenjoyable parts of the past week didn't help much. However, another GO missionary - Rhonda - came for lunch and we had a wonderful time of fellowship and then we went into town for a little while.

I know that no matter how rough the past few days have been tomorrow will erase it all. I love going to our church. Amazing worship, good teaching - the whole service, even the announcements, are uplifting and focused on God. I can only say thank you to HIM for bringing the church into our lives.

Now if I could only find some friends! And get rid of the ants which have invaded my room!!

Hopefully I get some pictures taken this week and posted. I'm sure you are all bored of continual words and no exciting visuals.