Miller Family Kisumu, Kenya: Annual Ministers Meetings, Visiting A Coffee Plantation, An The Kenyan President Visits Kisumu!

What the thump! time for yet another update...I've been so terrible with my updates as far as writing goes the last while....but I again wrote an update this time...I thought there wasn't much of anything to write about till I started writing an realized how much had actually happened the last week an a half.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading it...An I would love to hear from any of you!
I love any an all emails even if I cant always respond to all of them.
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(Saturday April 15th)

Ministers meetings...

Today our family had planned to go to the workplace were Victor works to tour it an also to take some Bibles to them to distribute to the workers.
Its a massive farm of around 600 acers that a rich lady from Nairobi owns, they have beef cows, orchards, an gardens, as well as a high class school on the farm.
So it was interesting to see what all goes on there, an like most things in Kenya it all takes time, so it ended up taking a bigger chunk out of our day...but we were happy for the experience.
We were just at home tonight, I made some pizza, an we all relaxed an prepared ourselves for the big day tomorrow.
(Sunday April 16th)
Today was a big Sunday at our church in Nyakoko...
First it was Easter Sunday...we had communion, we had a youth guy that has been in instruction class for several years finally being baptized, we had a excommunicated brother restored to full membership.
my friends Victor an Winnie came to visit our church again...

Preparing to serve supper...

Joseph an Becky along with their "daughter" Rhoda also came, since Joseph is the Bishop at our church.
After the service, we all went home for lunch, Victor decided to stay for lunch with us.
Steve was at home sick all day, he was having a bout of sickness that lasted a week, an saw him 10lb lighter afterwards...it seemed like a deep congested chest cold an fever of some kind.
In the evening I went to the Lake with Winnie an her sister Faith who is home from school right now. We had a grand time watching the sunset an spending time with Faith who is usually at school.
(Monday April 17th)
Today was supposed to be a holiday, so most business places were closed.
I was just working around home in the forenoon.
then because my friend Winnie thought she was going to have the day off for the holiday an then found out last minute that she wouldn't be having a holiday at all.
I decided to take her lunch to her work place, an also some flowers...we had a really good time.

Waiting for the announcements to end...

after that I came home an just did the usual Monday things around home.
(Tuesday April 18th)
Today was a school field trip...an since my Dad is the principle an was in charge of getting together a fun day, we of course went to a place he also found interesting...a coffee place.
At this coffee place they basically raise the coffee seeds in a green house, till they are seedlings, then at around 6 months to a year old, they then sell them to local farmers, who plant them an raise coffee beans to in turn bring to their coffee mill to be hulled an shipped all over the world.

We saw how they hulled the coffee beans, to how they packaged them, an even got to go to the taste testers room, where the one that tastes the various coffee to ensure its flavor, showed us how he vigorously sucked the coffee in with the loudest slurp I had ever heard, an then promptly spit it in a trash can he was holding in front of him...he slurped loud an impressively from one cup to the next an finally gave his verdict on which was the best tasting coffee...it was really neat, but the spitting back in the trash can was rather disgusting.

anyway we toured the whole place, then had our sack lunches in one of their big

offices, in the afternoon. We were then all gifted with a small coffee tree as a gift from the company.
It was a great day, an we returned to the compound at around 4:00pm.

A long day... an yet another testimony...

Rhoda an I promptly left again after coming home, since we both had an appointment at the dentist to check upon our braces...we both got braces since we are over here, since the price was so much cheaper then at home, so we kinda weather out our aches an pains of the braces life together.

Rhoda then was so kinda as to take me to Java house for a snack before we came back.

But while we were in town, we soon noticed the roads were being blocked off here an there, an police an soldiers were everywhere, so we took to the back streets but continued our way to Java house, since we heard the President of Kenya was set to drive through Kisumu on his way to a festival somewhere, so after we were finished at Java House we went up to Acacia which is a restaurant on top of java house that gives you a birds eye view of Kisumu town, we hope to see the president from there, but by the time we reached there, we had only just missed it, an only saw the last part of his motorcade pass by, with lots of shiny new government vehicles passing by, an load after load of soldiers, to protect the president in the middle of a "rival tribe" city.

We were just at home in the evening...

(Wednesday April 19th)

Today Dad an Mom an I went to Bible study...I thought I had too much to do at home, but since it was at my best friend Stacy's house I decided to go along, since she is usually in school an I don't get to see her much anymore, we had a good day, all packed into their tiny house for Bible study, eating big, fat, fluffy, chapatti's was all part of a good day spent with church people.

The school group in front of the coffee hull pile....

In the evening our family all gathered at KFC for supper an to spend some time together after all being out an about our separate ways during the day.

We had a good evening together.

(Thursday April 20th)

Today at noon all the pastors from our Kisumu compound left to meet all the missionary an native pastors from nakuru, coming for a day an a half of meetings at our compound, but first they all met for lunch at our CBF church in Rabour, then after lunch all came to our compound an had afternoon meetings till supper time at around 6:30pm.

Mom had a topic for the ladies so she was busy studying for that the first part of the week...

I spent most of my morning making food for the supper that evening, we were to make a "Kenyan stew" of sorts consisting of cooking chicken meat, with carrots, potatoes, onion, an tomatoes an cilantro, then they served the soupy stew over rice for the main course at supper, somehow that took me a long time to make...I was cooking three chickens.

then I did some cleaning an put away laundry, an by that time it was time to get ready an head down to where they had put up the big tent for the meetings, an help serve supper.

It was a busy day but a good day too!

(Friday April 21st)

At the coffee mill....

This morning Dad an Mom got up early an scrambled 8 flats of eggs a dozen an a half on each flat, as part of the breakfast for all the ministers an their wives an small chil

dren that were here.

We then went to help serve it an of course wash up the dishes after everyone was finished eating.

Today most of us girls, except the school teachers went swimming...we were happy for the excuse to go, as well as to take two of Mark Webbs daughters who are visiting Kenya with their parents, along too.

April an Audrey found themselves in Kenya with their parents after Mark Webb was chosen to take Ray Stutzmans place in recruiting missionaries to come serve in Kenya. So they made a trip over to become better acquainted with the missionaries here, an the tasks they do.

We sure enjoyed having extra youth here on the compound, an had a lovely time swimming with them.

After swimming, I went to town for a few things...in the evening quite abit of the compound went to Kiboko Bay (A favorite restaurant) for supper. the sunset over the lake was nice, an the food was as good as always.

After we got back us youth had spike ball.

An that's it for this week...

Thanks a lot for taking an interest in our lives!

~Sylvia

For The Miller's