We arrived safely on Sunday evening and 11 out of 12 pieces of luggage and equipment made it. The missing luggage arrived yesterday. All is well. Mike McDonald, our team leader felt tremendous relief as we transferred the donated equipment to Don Penny and Mesfin Teshome with the AIU Information Technology department. Thanks to Grace Community Church and many of our CLA donors we were able to donate 15 laptops, a 8 Terrabyte Storage Server, PoE Wireless Switch, routers, switches, 18-8 Gigabit thumb drives, wireless antennae, desktop computer and flat panel monitor, laptop cases, and other miscellaneous equipment totaling over $8,000.00.
While here we met students from Nyack College, a Christian University with campuses in Manhattan and Rockland, New York that are studying in preparation for degrees in Psychology and Christian counseling. They are here to study ethnicity and cross cultural issues. Dr. Elaine Eng is the leader of this group attending a conference at Brackenhurst with the Christian Medical and Dental Association. This organization supports the missionary community to provide continuing education and educational programs. Their biggest contribution is member care. They alternate between Africa and Asia with plans to be in Chiang Mai in 2013 for their CMDA conference there.
Just to show you what a small world it is, Dr. Eng asked if I knew Dr. Chet and Dolores Wood from Indianapolis. She spoke of how her pastor, George Ibach, was a nephew of Dolores and how she had attended a family reunion with Dolores’ family. You can e-mail Dr. Eng at eengmd@juno.com. She shared when we were talking this morning before breakfast, how she is trying to encourage a team from her church to come to Kenya and AIU on a vision trip. I told her about my plans to participate in such a trip with 4 couples from Faith Missionary Church. I went so far as to offer to include her fellow church team with our group. She was very excited as this would closely align with and support her efforts to encourage her church to experience ministry in the context of African realities.
Can we encourage you to consider visiting or serving AIU in the future. I will warn you, it might just change your life, it did for me.
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