Today we traveled to Kyangala church in Machakos county.

Jacque and Salome took the day to visit a friend in Nairobi. They had to bypass roads where there were riots. Some unrest is happening here. Some of it is due to police tearing down the make shift (and illegal) shops that some Kenyans set up on the roadside.

Kyangala is the location of pastor Levi’s church and small Bible college. Due to Leroy Cole’s donation, pastor Levi is expanding the Bible college. The building are nearly complete (see pics).

Levi was a really close friend of my grandpa, Blake Lasslett. It is always a pleasure seeing him.

Tyler preached the first sermon. Joseph preached the last sermon (1 hour and 15 minutes long…whew!)

The views in this location are startling. It is 1 mile above sea level. It was somewhat strange to see them building a petro station in this fairly remote area. Despite its remoteness, there is till quite a population here. Even if many don’t own cars, there are still quite a few motor bikes. Perhaps that is the main customer for the new petro station. There were only 2 pumps set up there(maybe more will be built. Need to observe its completion next year).

We are some mangos straight from the tree.

Met a man going around taking peoples blood pressure. He was employed by the government to monitor the locals health. We met a few drunk man walking by the church. One of them said he donated to Levi the property that Levi’s church is on. This is a lie. He convinced me to buy bananas from him due to my lack of understanding his Swahili. As he was speaking I said “ninafahamu” (which means “i understand”). I meant to say “sifahamu” (which means “I don’t understand”). So, he thought I understood his Swahili and those understand him when he spoke in Swahili asking me to buy his bananas. He later came back to the church with freshly cut, unripe bananas for me to purchase. Alice ended up buying them for 500 shillings. She said they were probably only worth 200/300 shillings. He was also invited to eat lunch with us.

The conference ended well. We gifted them ties (or as Levi called them, “clothes for your neck”) and gave Levi a tithe from our group to support his church.

Our ride home was nice and uneventful. We did not observe or drive through any riots.