Big Church and Then Some

Today NPC celebrated its 50 anniversary, so church was held at Nyayo Stadium (where football is played). NPC has 8 branches (Karen, Valley Road, Buruburu, Kisumu, Woodley, Ngong). This was a huge, all-day service beginning at 9am. We stayed until 1pm. There was lots of singing, a sermon by Reverend White (who preached at NPC Karen the week before), and several other important people and government officials. Even President Kibaki attended!


A portion of President Kibaki's fleet.


A fraction of the congregation.

At one point in his Sermon, Reverend White proceeded to lie on top of the podium. He was preaching about keeping God’s fire burning in your life. Apparently, the lying down bit was intended to represent that we all will die at some point. Anyway, he’s kind of a theatrical guy/preacher. (Little did he know (or maybe he was looking for a bit of fame), his atypical dramatics landed him on the front page of Monday morning’s Nation).

Following this event, the sun had decided to join us for the weekend, and we enjoyed a swim in the pool (it’s part of the estate).

The evening culminated with a visit to the Safari Walk at Nairobi National Park. There’s a boardwalk that takes you through the whole thing, and there are some parts with great views! You’re never think you were in the middle of drought-ridden Nairobi. Of course we saw the animals too…lioness, hippo, ostrich, crocodiles, etc, etc…but that’s just like the zoo. These aren’t the wild ones (well, obviously they are, but they live in cages/’exhibits’ and are fed by keepers).




Kissing the ground? Eating? Head too heavy?