It's Sunday in Kenya!! And what else would we do than go to church while we are here. This morning we had the privilege of going to a Kenyan church. It is one that Scott and Alisa worked closely with while they were missionaries here. The name of the church is Riuru Bible Baptist Church. It is an awesome experience to go to church in a different place much less a different country.
We started out with their youth service at 9:00am. One thing you have to understand about Kenyan culture is that you are a youth until you are married. So there are pretty old youth that are in their youth groups. We started with some songs and worship. We decided we are bringing back one of the songs to sing in our youth group on Wednesdays and Sundays that involves dancing and partners. It's pretty sweet!
After the worship songs, Isak, Kathleen and Julie got up and shared their testimonies with everyone. They did an awesome job of telling what God has done in their lives and what He is doing now! Then Christian Colson gave the message for the morning. He did an excellent job as well. He talked about what worship really is and used Romans 12. It was great even for us to hear because we all need to be reminded of what worship really is!
After the youth service we went to "big church" as we call it in the states. There we sang worship songs in Swahili and then Casey, Gary and TJ (Christian's student who came with him from Georgia) all gave their testimonies intermixed with Scott's message. It was an awesome message as well based on Psalm 1.
After church, we left and headed to the Tea Farm. It is a magical place that seems like it is only found on the front of postcards. It is a cottage estate surrounded by tea fields. It truly is beautiful. We had lunch there and then went on a tour of the farm. When you look out at the rolling hills covered with tea plants, you really do see God's creative essence! You see how much of an all-knowing God He really is to be able to make something so gorgeous. And the coolest thing is...we get to enjoy it.
You see, we deserve nothing. We deserve the least of anything. We should get nothing. But, because of our God and because of His love for us, we get everything. Because of His Son that was offered as a sacrifice, we get it all. Without forgiveness we would be nothing, but since we have it, we are made right with God again. When I was here at the farm two years ago, I remember thinking the same thing. How undeserving I am of any of this! How crazy I am because I take advantage of it so often!
What do you take advantage of? I know there was a pretty big storm back in New Albany last night, but how many of you take advantage of the fact that lightning is gorgeous? That rain gives us water to drink and cook with? That you even have the very breath in your lungs to breathe? Because it is all because of one final sacrifice!
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