Welcome to my blog. I will be writing about my mission trip to Kenya. I have been looking at plane tickets (although I cannot buy one until later this month) and I am fairly certain that I will be leaving on August 29th. For some reason the tickets that day are cheaper than any day that week. The strange thing is that I will be leaving on Monday and I won't land in Nairobi, Kenya until Wednesday! That just blows my mind. I have never been out of the United States in my life, so I am very green when it comes to all of this.
Why am I going to Kenya? Good question!! I am going to be working with a program called Missionary Village Aid Kenya (MVA). MVA was started by Emanuel Kasio, whom I met at a Nevada Diocesan Convention a long time ago. He is an African Anglican and I'm Episcopalian (same thing), so we have a lot in common religiously. MVA however is much more humanitarian than it is religious in nature. So that means that this is not technically a religious mission. I, however, consider it a religious mission because it is the duty of a Christian to do work like this. I decided to do this for spiritual reasons and I am still going to do the work of Christ in the world.
While I'm there my specific job will be to run empowerment programs with children who live is pastoral villages. They will be primarily Maasai. When kids in these places turn 13(ish) they generally start transitioning into the adult tribal culture. My goal will be to encourage them to finish their education. I truly believe that if you are going to save a country from poverty, you need to educate the next generation. So there you go.
I hope that you will join me in my adventures. I hope that they are life changing :-)
