Training and Sunday Service

Saturday was our first day of training with the teachers. We went in with kind of an idea of what we wanted to accomplish because the teachers provided us with a list of felt needs. Building off that we focused our first day on discussion of using iPads in the classroom. We talked about the successes they’ve seen and the challenges. It’s always interesting to see how similar their challenges are to ours.

Working off that, we spent some time talking about how they can effectively manage the iPads they have. They have problems that all teachers with limited resources have. How do they fairly share the iPad with each child? We shared ideas about ways to provide equal access to the iPads centered around using stations during math and reading instruction.

This is how we connect to Wifi. Lots of arm strength and patience.

Loading up on internet using Safaricom cards 

Charging for the next day

The last part of our day was focused on meeting their need of a system to synchronize and share data. So we introduced them to Google. Using Drive, they are able to share and edit from anywhere with internet. The problem on the CPA campus now though is access to reliable internet. This is a problem that they’re working diligently to solve, but it isn’t as simple as calling Verizon.

Sunday was a relaxing day. Gary headed to Mwi’Hangiri for church service while Brittany, Lindsay, and I helped teach the kids church lesson. We focused on the attribute “Worthy” and how only God is worthy of all the glory. The story we taught from was the magi visiting Jesus. The magi recognized that only Jesus was worthy of praise and Herod was an impostor who was trying to steal glory for himself.

That afternoon, we loaded into the back of the Land Cruiser and went to Rift Valley Fellowship in Maai Mahiu town for church service. This is a church that we partner with at The Village Church, so it was really great to see the work that they’re doing in the town. Maai Mahiu is a pretty dark place and most of the churches there do little to push that darkness back. RVF is faithfully proclaiming the gospel and they are seeing incredible things happening. At their service last week, they had 127 children and 200 adults, all of whom were able to hear the gospel preached by Pastor Isaac. I’m excited to see what the Lord is going to do through RVF in the coming years.

It’s hard to believe that we’ve already been on the ground here for a week and we head back in two short days. Pray for our remaining time, that we would use it well.