Jan 23 – Good Morning from Kenya
9AM – Monday Jan 23: Good morning to you all. I just got aboard the flight to Kisumu from Nairobi. It will be a short 50 minute flight. From there I will meet with Rev. David Kodia (and others I’m sure) for the first time. They have a number of things planned for me to do today.
It’s a beautiful day out today. Sunny and warm, and not to hot, at least this morning in Nairobi. I’m NOT missing the weather back in Connecticut, which I understand is cold and rainy. I can understand why many westerners escape to African locations in the mid winter. I sure is a whole different continent.
I was happy yesterday to make the acquaintance of a driver here in Nairobi named Peter. He drove me from the airport to the hotel and did the reverse this morning. He is going to meet me when I get back to Nairobi on Thursday. Since I have a very late flight out to Dubai on Friday, he is going to pick me up in the late morning on Friday and give me a tour of the Nairobi area. I’m sure it will be interesting.
Something else worked out well yesterday. In the early evening at the hotel, I discovered that the shower water was cold in my room. I notified the front desk and they did their best to get the problem fixed, but it got pretty late in the evening, after dinner and the water was still cold. I braved a cold shower and went to bed. I was pretty tired from all the travel at that point. 
This morning, when I went to check out, the hotel manager spoke with me and apologized for the problem. I let him know that I was not upset and understood that things happen that we can’t always control. He let me know that on my return to the hotel on Thursday that he would make sure I have a good room and then let me know that they would extend my check out time on Friday to 7 PM since I have a late flight that evening. Wow! That was worth the minor inconvenience. As I often say when in Tanzani “Mungu ni mwema” which means “God is good”. He really is. I will admit that I was feeling annoyed at first on Sunday evening about the water situation (not at the people who really were trying their best), but I thought about it and once again realized that I was not in control of this journey. It was the Lord who brought me here in the first place. I understood then that everything was as it needed to be, including a cold shower.
Evening – Jan 23 – Come back later. I will post after dinner.
Jan 21 – Ready to go!
All set to go to Kisumu, Kenya. Some of you have asked how this trip came about. It started with an E-mail message that came from Rev. David Kodia, the principal of Bishop Okullu College to Rt. Rev. Ian Douglas, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. He forwarded the E-mail to me since I’m the chairperson for a diocesan committee called Companions in Mission for Publishing and Communications, AKA CMPC. The e-mail was an inquiry and request for funding to setup a computer lab and network for the students of the college. I put two plus two together, mainly that I have experience and expertise in doing this type of work based on the years of working with Kasulu Bible College in Kasulu Tanzania (now known as Lake Tanganyika Theological College – say that ten times fast!). I’ve been supporting their computer lab for over 11 years. It did not take long for me to figure that the folks at Bishop Okullu College could use some help in figuring out what would be the best setup for their lab, so I volunteered to travel there and meet with them to offer my services in any way that I can to help them reach their goal.
So I’m here today at JFK waiting for the first flight out to Dubai of a three flight journey to Kisumu. I’d appreciate your prayers as I travel and meet with the leadership of BOC this week. I’m looking forward to meeting with them and visiting and seeing the Kisumu area of Kenya.
Bill