This excursion will depart after breakfast from the airport hotel in Nairobi for a morning commuter flight to Kisumu. From Kisumu, Friends will visit these historic sites in Western Kenya:
• Vihiga, where the pioneering translation of the Bible was undertaken by a team of Kenyan and American translators.
• The vast Kaimosi complex including the historic dam over the Goligoli River that powered the mission’s industrial works.
• The majestic old church at Lirhanda; and the Hill of Vision, from which the first missionaries spied the fertile hillside that was to become the Kaimosi mission.
• Visit Malava site & Lugulu Mission Hospital.
• Evening talks with special guests will supplement the visits to historic sites.
• Worship on Sunday morning at a local Friends church before driving to Nakuru in time for the Triennial registration.
The latest date on which you should plan to arrive in Nairobi is Monday, June 26.
Cost: $475
Lodging: On the campus of Friends Theological College in Kaimosi. See https://friendstheologicalcollege.org/. Accommodations will be in simple but clean dormitories, with mosquito nets, hot water, and flush toilets.
Leaders: Robert Wafula and Zablon Malenga
To learn more about Friends' history in East Africa:
· Read Robert Wafula’s Christian History article giving an overview of the establishment of the Friends mission: https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/from-mud-huts-to-yearly-meetings
· Read Eden Grace’s Friends Journal article about the distinctive pattern of ministry in the early years of the Kaimosi mission: https://www.friendsjournal.org/the-place-of-gods-own-choosing/.
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