Even though we had been staying in a nice hotel, the water there was not safe to drink or even open your mouth in the shower. If you ran the water into one of our white buckets, it was brown and left a brown sediment in the bottom. But unless people buy bottled water, this is the only water source to drink (or worse!). But how can they afford to buy water, when the average earnings is about the equivalent of $2.00 per day? And the prices are nearly evuivalent to our prices in the States. A coke or water is about $.65. At that rate, people have no choice but to drink dirty water. Bondo is on the mainland and was where we got the ferry each day to distribute water filters on Mageta Island. But it will be awhile before SWOK will be able to distribute filters there. The project on Mageta was about a $480,000. project. The project to do the entire county which includes Bondo would be a $10 million project! But Bill and Chat ant SWOK are seeking the Lord's direction to determine if this is where He wants them to go next. This would be a project in cooperation with the county government.
While we were staying in the hotel in Bondo, we generated our water for the team to drink with two kits of UZima filters set up in Bill & Chat's room. When they came back on Friday afternoon from our last day on Mageta, they found this note on their bed.
Bill and Chat passed on a special blessing to Andi and I by allowing us to train these two housekeepers in how to assemble, use and clean the filter kits and gave them each one for their families. This was made possible because friends back home had given us money to use to buy filters to be given away. It was an awesome blessing for Andi and I to be able to do this personally, to be connected on both ends of the "gifting transaction". And I'm not able to effectively put into words how thrilled these ladies were to receive the blessing of having clean water. It's something we don't give a moment's thought to but something they only dream about on a daily basis!
We packed up our vans mid morning, said our goodbyes, and headed back for the long but beautiful drive to Nakuru, arriving home around 7:45 pm. After showers, dinner and team meeting, we fell into bed. Sunday has been a rest and fun day. We started off after breakfast with church at the Agora Trinity Vineyard Church, where our teams have been blessed to worship on the previous two trips as well. It's a blessing to be in a large multicultural and multinational church worshipping with other believers. This is an important church ministering to the needs of many who are in full time ministry themselves. We had the blessing to be there on a Sunday with two infant dedications and five adult baptisms as well as holy communion.
Following the service and fellowship following, we packed back in the vans for a one hour drive to Lake Naivasha for boat rides to Crescent Island and searching for hippos. We found four (or 5) hippos together (it's tough to tell when 95% of the animal is below water and you dare not get too close). We had a great hike around the island, seeing impalas, gazelles, waterbucks, zebras, wildebeests and tons of different birds. It was a great but long day, arriving back at Tumaini by 8:00 for dinner and cleanup for an early start of construction work tomorrow at Gituamba.
These are the beautiful cottages where we are staying at Tumaini in Nakuru.
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