A few months after arriving in Kenya, Pete and I had the unique opportunity to have dinner with Reverend Joseph Ebei and his wife, Ann. Rev Ebei is the area director of Turkana County with the Africa Gospel Church (AGC). Turkana is an enormous area spanning approximately 30,000 square miles of northern Kenya (the size of South Carolina) bordered by Uganda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. The Ebeis have followed God’s call to the area and have been a part of planting 19 AGC churches in this region over the last few years. Following dinner, we were invited by our WGM field director, Alene Burgert, to help create a vision trip to the northern part of Turkana County in order to learn how WGM can support the work the AGC is already doing in and around the Kakuma Refugee Camp. This is the first post of the vision trip we took last month.
On the morning of February 21, Pete and I joined our field mentors, Steve and Alene Burgert, and our pastor, Reverend Elijah Bii, to fly from an airstrip not far from Tenwek Hospital all the way up to Kakuma near the border of South Sudan. (Most of our trip photos were taken by either Pete or me, but some were taken by Steve, which is why we are in some of the photos! That doesn’t usually happen for us.)
