Had a great day at Lake Nakuru in the Rift Valley - amazing to see God's incredible creation! (http://bit.ly/aaYgIC) There are some more pictures on this album: http://picasaweb.google.com/daryn.sutton/Africa2010#
Flying out to Doha tomorrow afternoon with a reasonably quick turnaround to catch the Doha-Melbourne leg home! Yay...looking forward to getting home. There's been a lot to consider and process in the last 3 weeks about a whole lot of stuff. The children's home in Nairobi and Daniel Kawata's school/medical centre in Kinshasa are great projects that I'd like to see us continue to support. We can take teams of people there to do all kinds of things from working with the kids themselves, to building and renovation-type works. Exchange was amazing, to reconnect with a lot of people and see some real strategic initiatives be birthed for the future. DR Congo was challenging and exciting at the same time. I do really love Africa - and there's so much potential to be realised!
TIme to turn my thoughts to home now - need to buy another car when I get back (my Magna got written off due to hail damage!) and a new hard drive for my Mac (which means some rebuilding - not sure I backed absolutely everything up, so that will be painful!). And I'm looking forward very much to seeing Jo, Kealy and Elijah at the airport to welcome me home!! :)
I'll try and write some more as I think of it and process the last few weeks of happenings...it's gone quick, but yet seems like I've been away a loonnnng time!!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Back from DR Congo.
Back from DR Congo... a busy and productive time. I'm in a hotel in Nairobi now - nice to have hot water again! Nairobi seems very ordered and civilized compared to Kinshasa - amazing how our perspectives change.
Really quickly...
We arrived at Kinshasa on Saturday and went straight to a church Youth Conference where Melinda spoke and I sang a song I wrote a while back called "Holy is the Lord" which had been translated into French - I gave it a crack in French which went okay I think!
I spoke at two services at a church on Sunday, and sang a few songs with them. By the way, I'm pretty happy with my little Cort travel guitar (Cort Earth Mini - a 3/4 size acoustic with a pickup) - I had to 'plug and play' quite a bit whilst in Congo, rarely a soundcheck - in fact, rarely got to meet the musos I was playing with beforehand - so I'm teaching the song completely on the fly - that's the African way!
We visited a couple of great projects that are initiatives of Daniel Kawata, who hosted us while we were there. A school which comprises teaching of kids, and also adults, with some micro enterprise business opportunities for women, and a medical centre. These are both in a very very poor area of Kinshasa and are excellent projects that we'd like to have continued involvement with.
A whole lot of other stuff - but I'll have to update some other time!
Check out the latest pics... they're on this slide show:
Really quickly...
We arrived at Kinshasa on Saturday and went straight to a church Youth Conference where Melinda spoke and I sang a song I wrote a while back called "Holy is the Lord" which had been translated into French - I gave it a crack in French which went okay I think!
I spoke at two services at a church on Sunday, and sang a few songs with them. By the way, I'm pretty happy with my little Cort travel guitar (Cort Earth Mini - a 3/4 size acoustic with a pickup) - I had to 'plug and play' quite a bit whilst in Congo, rarely a soundcheck - in fact, rarely got to meet the musos I was playing with beforehand - so I'm teaching the song completely on the fly - that's the African way!
We visited a couple of great projects that are initiatives of Daniel Kawata, who hosted us while we were there. A school which comprises teaching of kids, and also adults, with some micro enterprise business opportunities for women, and a medical centre. These are both in a very very poor area of Kinshasa and are excellent projects that we'd like to have continued involvement with.
A whole lot of other stuff - but I'll have to update some other time!
Check out the latest pics... they're on this slide show:
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