TIA

There is a saying here in Kenya. "TIA" or "This is Africa." Mostly this is used by westerners to describe the unexpected ups and downs of life in Africa. To all of our church family at Calvary CRC, you now have first hand experience with this. We were having a lovely conversation during worship, but the generator shut down and we lost power and internet connection all at once. By the time we had power and internet again, it was too far along in the worship service to try and connect again. Sorry we didn't get to give you more of an update on ministry here, but with life this week we are glad we even got a few moments to connect with you.

This whole week we lived "TIA." For Tuesday through Friday the Internet was intermittent at best. Although we had power on Saturday we were too busy to get on-line. Today we had perfect internet (for most of the day) but no power! :) TIA. Anyway, we like it here and these are things we are already starting to laugh about. Can you imagine Americans whose power was just randomly shut off for a full day. Talk about angry, especially on a Sunday for NFL football and the final day of the Baseball season. Here in Machakos, it's just part of life. TIA! :)

Well, it is late already and we need to get to bed. I give my first mid-term this week. We will try to blog more later in the week (unless we have another TIA week).