December 12th

This morning was a bit different than usual, there was a morning
C-section so Tom and Emma were down at the hospital doing that
so breakfast was just Karen and I. Then she went down to the
hospital leaving me to fend for myself on going to church. I
decided to go to Katherie and that was good, because Samuel and
Emma ended up coming there too. Church was good this morning,
it wasn’t super hot and I am starting to understand Krio a little bit
so I actually understood some of the message. After church we
had a quick lunch then Emma and I walked to the men’s tailor, I
found some fabric for an African suit. Next Sunday is Africana
Sunday and Samuel said everyone was supposed to wear African,
no “white man” clothes. After the tailors we were walking up
towards the house when we saw Solomon. He came over to
Emma’s place and we just sat there and talked for a while until I
had to leave to get ready to go to Kakamba. We set out a little
after 5:20 to pick up some people to take along, Albert was already
there so he wasn’t one of them. We arrived in Kakamba a little
after six, set up the projector and generator and then just had to
wait for it to get dark enough. We had well over two hundred
people come by to watch, it was pretty cool. Many people even
stayed and watched the movie despite the dance going on not
very far away. There were these two guys who spent several
minutes calling one of their friends to come out but he didn’t, he
stayed and watched. During the film this girl gave me some ground
nuts, way more than I would want to eat as they were raw and
eating too many can make you sick according to Karen. So I used
them to try and bribe the small children. Unlike here in Kamakwie
where the little kids love the white people, the little kids in
Kakamba are afraid or at least nervous about the white man and
they flee when I try to approach. Anyway, the movie went along
pretty well with minimal interruption and following the movie a
local pastor got up and asked all who would like to give their life to
Christ to come forward. He had to say a couple times but finally a
young guy came forward and then several more and finally 53
people came forward and gave their life to Christ, how awesome!
We have all of their names and the youth intend to follow up with
them over the next week and begin to establish some discipleship
and such to help encourage them and to prevent them from
reverting to Islam. Leaving we had a considerably larger passenger
load, instead of 5 we had 9, four in the back seat, 3 in the truck
bed and Karen and I in the front. Albert rode on his bike ahead of
us the whole way to Kamakwie, he’s a crazy man. Anyway, we had
a great night and I had a good day, I can’t wait to see what more
God does as I continue on here.


Blessings from Kamakwie
Ryan Brooks