This morning began with another excellent breakfast. Kamar gave a raw and real devotional to start our day.

We knew we had a long day of driving ahead of us. So, We took 2 vehicles. 6 of our group (including Pastor Joseph Masunga) went with Charles in the 4 wheel drive Land Cruiser. Alice took Jacque and Pastor Joseph Masunga’s wife, Salome, with her in her 2 wheel drive car.

We were headed to the interior of Maasai country off the main roads. The roads are rough and sometimes impassable. However, despite a few obstacles, we arrived in Emurua Dikirr in the afternoon of that Tuesday. Our mission was to hold a Bible conference with the local fellowship of Maasai at Bethesda Baptist Church. This church building, located in the “bush,” has been in existence for only a few years. The Maasai there began as simply a few people studying the Bible under tree. With the financial assistance of Pastor Leroy Cole of Goodrich, Michigan and the providence of God a church building, a well, and permanent fellowship has been established.

This was to be the first day of a 2 day conference with at least 6 sermons (from the book of Ephesians), meals, fellowship, sharing, and gift giving.

We were welcomed beautifully and warmly by the Maasai fellowship with the greeting of “Supa.”

Joseph Masunga began the conference with a powerful message. Then Pastor Tyler concluded the day with 2 messages. He delayed one of his messages until tomorrow due to the heavy rains and his not feeling so well. In fact, I have dubbed Tyler’s one sermon the rain sermon and the other the dry sermon. Even though the rain sermon was very difficult to hear (the rain was loud and quite torrential), the Maasai congregants took it as a sign of God’s blessing. They said, “Pastor Tyler, you have brought the rain.”

The other activities of the day were:

(1) us entering a Maasai manyatta. This is a typical Maasai house made of mud, cow dung, and sticks. It’s very dark inside (obviously no electricity). The women are the one who build the houses. This is a very patriarchal tribe.

(2) watching the progress of Pastor Lawrence’s new house being built.

(3) hearing testimonies by some of the Maasai, such as Abraham.

We ended the day driving back to Alice Mukui’s farmhouse. On turning out of Bethesda Baptist Church we almost immediately came upon a roadblock. A local Maasai elder put some tree branches on the road and said we could not pass that way without paying him a fee. He argued we were driving through his property and thus would have to pay a toll to go this particular way. We refused to pay and had to go a longer route to arrive at Alice’s farmhouse (TIA…this is Africa).

Well enough blogging for today…sorry no jokes, humor, or Teammate profile today.

Enjoy the pics and videos.