Positively Presbyterian

Saturday, February 25, the church I attend in Ngong, PCEA Enchorro Emuny had a walk to raise money for a manse for the pastor.

The majority of Kenyan’s are not particularly physically fit, so watching them warm-up for the walk was a bit comical. But everyone was in good spirits and we all had a lot of fun.

Members of PCEA Enchorro Emuny Church, warm-up their muscles for the 12K walk to raise funds for a manse.

The PCEA Enchorro Emuny Primary School Band started us off.

We marched behind them through town. We all church T-shirts on. It was very festive.
Omondi is the one with the orange baseball cap on sideways...always the rebel!

I had bought Omondi sport shoes for school the day before in the market, but when he took them out of the bag on Saturday morning we discovered they had given us two left shoes. So we had to take a detour from the festive part of the march to go to the market and exchange the second left shoe. We took a short cut to meet up with the group, but ended up at the back of the pack, so we had to walk and job to get back in the middle of pack. Omondi spent the time dashing to and fro with his friends. Judie stayed with me for the duration.

Judie warming up for the walk.

It was a beautiful day to walk, but windy and dusty, and no real oasis in site, contrary to this sign.

Omondi’s behavior went down hill all day. We went to see the child psychologist on Saturday afternoon and she managed to calm him down a bit. We still have a lot of work to do to get rid of all the demons he carries around, but we’ve made a start.