It will take a few posts to process the major points of interest for the weekend that we spent in Loitokitok (Oloitokitok), Kenya.

Dr. David Galletta and I had been asked to lead a “seminar” for congregational leaders (pastors, service directors, lay leaders, etc.). The seminar served the twofold purpose of building up local leadership and also advertising the extension program of Common Ground Theological Institute (CTI), which is based in Nairobi but offers courses for credit at various sites in Kenya, including Loitokitok. (For a little more on CTI, see the mission details page.)

We had the pleasure of staying at the lovely house of Korean missionaries who pastor several Kenyan (African Inland Church) congregations in the area. I did not take any pictures of their cozy mountainside abode, but I did take some pictures of their “back yard”—which is the Tanzanian border and (no big deal) the roots of Kilimanjaro.

My guide might have led me (illegally?) across the border into Tanzania for the third photo.

I will write again about preaching on Sunday and the seminar today. I need to get some rest tonight (it is 9:45 p.m. here) because I start the course on Ezekiel tomorrow!

Please pray that the believers in Loitokitok would continue to be strengthened and grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; that God would give me both stamina and insight as I begin the course on Ezekiel tomorrow; and that God would enable the students of CTI to apprehend clearly “the good news according to Ezekiel.”