Day Five in Kenya:

“On the road again. I just can’t wait to get on the road again….” and so we did, upcountry to the Nyeri District, home to a branch of New Life Homes and Tumutumu Hospital. The drive was lovely; the highway bordered for miles by coffee and tea plantations. Much of the landscape was terraced for local gardening, including pineapple bushes, banana trees, many potatoes and other foods of basic sustenance. Women clad in bright colors speckled the landscape as they turned the ground with a simple hoe.

The beauty of the land, the simplicity of life, and the slower pace of the country brought a timely respite from the pulse of Nairobi. Our visit to New Life Homes, Nyeri, gave us visions of possibilities. Forty-one babies have been rescued from abandonment and loved into health in twenty-four months. All but fifteen have been adopted so far.

It’s hard to fathom that $60,000 a year sustains such a ministry, and it gives us pause to consider the implications. We were loathe to admit it, but eventually most confessed to doing the math: $120,000 for 41 lives.

Kenya Mission Team