At devotions DCPC Youth answer the question, "Where did you see God today?" This blog recounts our stories, the places we find ourselves in God's story, and the ways we see God working in the world around us.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Day Two - Field Trip

Here's a glimpse of what Monday, June 15 looked like:


  • Rise and shine and Breakfast at the guest house
  • 9:00 AM - Headed to the Child and Youth Development Center (Tour of the center, welcome songs from the Nursery and Preschool Children, tea)
  • 10 AM - Loaded up 48 preschool kids, staff from the preschool and our crew into two mini busses and headed out for the great adventure.
  • First Stop - National History Museum in Nairobi, where we took the whirlwind tour of Kenya's history and animal life - pace set by 4 year olds.
  • Second Stop - Animal Orphanage. Here we pulled out the 70 bag lunches we had packed earlier in the day. Each packed in it's own blue insulated lunch box. (PB & J, raisins - which were not a big hit, and candy - which was a huge hit.) After we ate lunch we played soccer with giant inflatable soccer balls and decorated lunch bags with sharpies (not the most well thought out plan.)
  • Then we headed into the animal orphanage - a small zoo, where you can get within 5 feet of lions, only separated by chicken wire. (Here we realized that we actually had 50 kids with us - oops.)
  • Left the animal orphanage (and one teacher, oops again) and returned to the preschool with lots of sleeping youngsters curled in our laps.
  • 5 PM - Headed to Rev. Elizabeth's house to meet her beautiful twins, Onesimus and Mercy Ann. Here we learned the art of carrying bags on our heads - actually quite comfortable.
  • 6:30 PM - Ate dinner with Fred and Eunice and their family - delicious! Great company.
  • Headed home and to bed

Reflection from Betsy: After spending a day with the pre-schoolers, I think I can say with conviction that I believe we should all be more child-like - not childish, but child-like. We are never too old to revel in amazement at small wonders. We are never too old to laugh hysterically when something is really funny. We are never too old to remove ourselves from the surrounding activities simply to rest. And we are never too old to be loved and cared for by another. We should all be more child-like - this I believe.

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