Today was a great day in Rwanda. It sure beats yesterday when we drove for 6 hours back to Nairobi from our Safari and then flying to Rwanda. Yeah, I know, poor little me. But, the first 2 hours of the van ride were on the bumpiest dirt road you can imagine (Try real hard and then double it). There was even a stretch where they made another bumpy dirt road so you could avoid the previous bumpy dirt road. But, we made it back.
Our driver (Phillip) surprised Kyce, Korbin and I when we got to Nairobi. He had special Kenya belts made for each of us with our names in beads on them. Totally cool and my boys thought it was the coolest thing, and they are right. I know that he doesn't make much and this was a sacrifice for him. Phillip is the same driver that Shelley and I had when we came with a Mission Team in 2009, so it was great to hang out with him for another week.
In Rwanda, we got to sleep in a little bit (7:30am). We spent a number of hours today at the Elim Children's Center. This is a ministry that Parfait Karekezi helps to support. They feed breakfast and lunch to kids whose mothers have HIV/AIDS. There were 51 kids there today and the mothers came also (21 of them). We were able to hand out Hot Wheels to each of the kids along with Blow-Pops. You would have thought they were in heaven. We got to serve them lunch and then top it off with a soda. We also left them a couple of soccer balls and some jump ropes that my daughters made for them. It was a wonderful time.
It has been great seeing Parfait and Michelle Karekezi. He used to live in Tulsa and was a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker Select. He and Michelle moved to Rwanda to be missionaries in 2008. Check out his ministry at www.sendmeintl.com
Tomorrow, we will get to visit a Christian School in a Muslim area or town, as well as buy and deliver food to a group of people that the outcast tribe in Rwanda. It should be exciting.
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